A Land of Kindred Intellects: Russian Émigrés in Bulgaria during the Early Post-Revolutionary Years

Abstract

As the civil war in the European part of the former Russian Empire was ending tens of thousands of refugees fled to Bulgaria where they constituted an informal national minority that enjoyed the support of most of the host country’s political factions with the exception of the communists. Th e Russian émigré presence in Bulgaria, which had just experienced its Second National Catastrophe, i.e., defeat in World War I, led to the merging of two national traumas.