«WE DARED TO COME OUT WITH NEW SLOGANS... »: PETERSBURG GROUP OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATS AND THE LADO COLLECTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of Petersburg group of National Democrats and the “Lado” collection. This study is based on the analysis of the documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Historical Archive, the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Furthermore, the author uses materials from the newspapers of the 1910s. The author comes to the conclusion that National Democrats of Petersburg were closely connected with the Slavic movement, and the “Lado” collection was not only national democratic but also neo-Slavic.