Ruské exilové nakladatelství Plamja
The Russian Exile Publishing House Plamja

Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak Republic became one of the major destination countries for many Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian emigrants in the 1920s as a result of its programme of state support. In the life of the post-revolutionary émigré community, which had lost contact with its homeland, language and culture, publishing activity was extremely important. Among the Russian-language publishing houses established in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period, Plamja, which was founded in Prague and led by Jevgenij Alexandrovič Ljackij (1868–1942), was one of the most prominent. In the years of its activity, between 1923 and 1935, it published over a hundred book titles and had offices in several European cities, and also Harbin in China. Its publishing projects included professional, academic, informational and art literature, book catalogues, postcards and bibliographical periodicals (the weekly Ogni and the monthly Slavjanskaja kniga). The Plamja project was one of the most significant publishing ventures of the Russian diaspora of its time.

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