Жизненный путь и общественная деятельность российского эмигранта К. Д. Померанцева
Life way and public activity of Russian emigrants K. D. Pomerantsev

Summary/Abstract: This article reconstructs the life path of a refugee from Russia, a representative of the younger generation of post-revolutionary emigration, K. D. Pomerantsev. On the basis of previously unintroduced documents from the archives of the Center for the Study of Eastern European Countries at the University of Bremen, some facts of his biography have been clarified. K. D. Pomerantsev received his secondary education at an English boarding school for boys in Buyukdere in Constantinople. Thanks to an American scholarship from the “Committee for Assistance in the Education of Russian Youth in Exile”, he entered the university in Paris, but could not finish it. In his younger years, he became interested in the anthroposophical teachings of the German philosopher R. Steiner, which influenced his worldview and ideological line in poetic work. He participated in the National Organization of Russian Explorers, but for unknown reasons, left the association, creating his own organization from among the intelligence officers. This fact aggravated relations with the head of NORR P. Bogdanovich. During World War II, he managed to leave Paris and take part in the resistance movement. In the post-war years, acquaintance and communication in the circle of the intelligentsia of the Russian emigration contributed to the manifestation of his poetic talent. His works were published by such publications as: “New Journal”, “Renaissance”, “Bridges”, “Experiments”, “Continent”, “Russian Thought”, “New Russian Word”. He spoke about meetings with talented people who influenced both his fate and his work in his book “Through Death”. Russian readers are gradually getting acquainted with the works of K. Pomerantsev, in many ways, thanks to a friend and popularizer of his work A. Radashkevich. In 2018, he published the collection “Justification of Defeat”, which included published and unpublished works, the book “Through Death”, a number of other materials by Pomerantsev and about Pomerantsev.

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