Russian Diaspora in Japan and A.S. Pushkin

Abstract

The article reveals the attitudes towards A.S. Pushkin among the Russians living in Japan. Having found themselves in another cultural environment, they considered the poet a symbol of the lost motherland. Emigre ideologists, in their turn, truing to integrate the Russian diaspora, made Pushkin's name a banner under which different groups of Russian immigrants could interact. The article is based on the materials from the Russian-language press in Japan and China from the collections of the University of Hawaii Library (Honolulu, USA) and the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco.