I TA for a high school Russian history class, trying to find a copy of a letter for a student's project.

by Gyrtop

So I'm a student still myself, no access to fancy college stuff. One of the students' final projects is on Russian neo-nationalists, and is trying to find a letter signed by a group called Mladorossi, from 1935. The only listing on google is an ebay listing for the letter itself. Is it even possible to find this based on the information we have? That's everything that I've been told as of now.

kaisermatias

Mladorossi loosely translates to "Young Russians," and was a pro-tsarist group of émigrés that existed in the years between the Revolution and the Second World War, formed by younger Russians disillusioned with the older exiled nobles. Its founder was Alexander Kazembek, who was later forced out when he was seen meeting with Soviet officials; it was thought they were trying to recruit him, so he left for the US. The group kind of disbanded afterwards.

There isn't a lot on them in English, and the Russian materials I've found are sparse as well, though they seem to have some popularity with some Russian nationalist groups. They had some unusual views, such as the idea that the tsar could lead the Soviet Union, and they supported the October Revolution in that they felt it necessary, but should have been more nationalist and a higher focus on Russians, and not the other groups in the Empire/USSR.