The Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences held a round table dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the death in exile of the prominent leaders of Russian pre-revolutionary liberal movement Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkovoj-Williams (1869-1962). Event organized the Institute of philosophy of Sciences, “Russian liberal legacy of” House of the Russian abroad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the journalists Union of Russia, reporter BakuToday .
Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams was a member of the party CENTRAL COMMITTEE, State Duma deputy cadets, as well as the famous journalist, writer and critic. According to the President of the Russian liberal heritage, Ph.d. Kara-Murza Alexei, russian liberals for the first half of the 20th century Tyrkova was someone like Madame Roland-ideological vdohnovitel′nicy between the revolutionary period of the French Revolution; While the constitutional Democrats (cadets) in Russia, in fact, repeat the fate of the victims of the âkobinskogo period. Most of the Tyrkovoj file is located in the United States, where she died in 1962, said head of the Department of history of Russian abroad Home Russian abroad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Marina Sorokina. For historians, archivists here is still very much work, especially given that in the memoirs Tyrkovoj a lot of “artistic” part, and the question, what is the percentage of fiction, remains open, noted Sorokina.
Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams was one of the brightest journalists of his time, said the Secretary of the Union of journalists of Russia Nadezhda Azhgihina. It is worth noting that the Tyrkova-Williams had done much to promote “women’s issue” in pre-revolutionary Russia. Speaking at the II Congress of the Cadet party, she quoted one of the most famous women of the French Revolution Olympia de Gouges, author of the “Declaration of women and of the citizen”, “If a woman were on the scaffold, the let and rostrum” rephrasing your them: “you had us at the barricades, and let Parliament”. She has also made a great contribution to the Organization of the first all-Russian women’s Congress of 1908, at which a resolution was adopted with the equal suffrage for women. “Women in Russia eventually got equal rights with men, largely due to Tyrkovoj”-stressed Azhgihina.
“Best of Crete Tyrkovu characterize its same words:” freedom and dignity “, in turn, the Director of the Institute of social thought rans Valentin Šelohaev. They were manifested not only in its articles and political texts, but also in literary works-unfortunately, lamented Šelohaev, virtually unknown to the domestic reader. Meanwhile, their role in the overall package of texts of Russian emigre literature in the first half of the 20th century it is difficult to overestimate. In addition, he reported on the preparation of a unique project-Edition of the diaries and correspondence Tyrkovoj-Williams, stored in foreign and Russian archives, and also passed a few years ago, its descendants in the State archive of the Russian Federation.
The discussion also made by the literary critic, doctor of philosophical Sciences Vladimir Kantor, Professor of philosophy of MGIMO, doctor of historical sciences Andrey Zubov, Professor of cultural studies at the Moscow State Pedagogical University Olga Zhukova, journalist and political scientist Denis Dragunsky and other experts.
