The Russian Center for Science and Culture in Belgrade. Photo credit: The original uploader was Goldfinger at Serbian Wikipedia / commons.wikimedia.org (CC-BY-SA-3.0-RS)
Representatives of the Russian Scientific Institute and the authorities of Bela Crkva (Serbia) agreed at the Russian House in Belgrade to jointly preserve the memory of Russian emigrants, the Russian House telegram channel reports.
Mayor Violeta Simic emphasized the importance of the agreement reached on cooperation for Bela-Crva. She recalled that 202 years ago, more than 40,000 Russian emigrants ended up in the Serbian town, leaving their trace on the culture and development of the country.
The head of the Russian Scientific Institute, Irina Antanasievich, called Bela Tskrkva one of the two centers of Russian emigration in Yugoslavia. In those years, the institute for noble maidens and the cadet corps were located there. These institutions became centers of culture that brought up young people who formed the image of the Russian emigration.
19 generals of the Russian army, representatives of the royal family and those close to the Russian emperor, as well as actresses, scientists, representatives of the Orthodox Church, are buried in the city's Russian cemetery.
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