Abstract
Unlike my dissertation, which will deal more generally with the topic of art production of the Russian and Ukrainian exile of the interwar period, the network of contacts between the exile communities in several European centers and mobility of authors between them, in my presentation at the Forum for doctoral candidates in Berlin I focused more specifically on the strategies of building of two important collections of Russian art, which were based in Prague in the 1920s and 1930s. Interwar Prague was one of the most lively and important centers of the exile from the area of the prewar Russia.
Czechoslovakia also became home to a significant number of visual artists: for many of them the city was only a temporary asylum before further emigration to the West, some settled down mostly to assimilate with the local milieu. On examples of art collections and exhibition projects my presentation focused on the way the exile community perceived its own art traditions and their continuation abroad, after the turning point of the October Revolution and the subsequent civil war.