Bousquet, Fanny
Objects of Russian exile in Paris, 1920-1990. Study of an itinerary among apartments, antique dealers and auction houses
- 2020.
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In the 1920s, many emigrants who fled the civil war in Russia settled in France especially in Paris. During the exile, they packed up a few objects and souvenirs. The circulation of these objects through the emigrants’ settlement has created of a new cartography of the Russian emigration. This article aims to analyse the multiple circulations of objects in order to study the symbols and imaginaries that they convey.