«No news on it and haven’t written...»: the sources of personal origin about the fate of the immigrant Nikolay N. Artamonov, Jr.

Abstract

The work is an attempt to reconstruct the tragic life of an immigrant. N. N. Artamonov, Jr. — representative of the famous Russian military. This publication is a continuation of scientific research on this family. The example of individual personalities reveals the ambiguous position of the Russian emigration in the U.S.A. in the first half of the 1920s, The article allows to estimate the information potential sources of personal origin in relation to the preparation of historical and biographical studies of the Russian emigration. The author comes to the conclusion about the value of this type of documents in the study of culture, social life and everyday life of Russian emigration and Soviet society in the this period.