Россия и Италия. Итальянцы в России от Древней Руси до наших дней

Russia and Italy. Issue 6. Italians in Russia from Ancient Russia to the present day. The issue presents articles and publications on the Italian presence in Russia and the USSR in various aspects. Such major phenomena are considered as the contribution to Russian culture of Italian masters: architects, musicians, artists, sculptors, actors; labor and political emigration of Italians in the 19th-20th centuries; military intervention during World War II. Little-known and unpublished descriptions of Russia left by writers, diplomats, scientists, public figures, travelers are analyzed. The memoirs of a number of Italians who lived in the Soviet Union are published for the first time.