‘The Singer of Old Rus’: General Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov and His Political Ideas through the Prism of His Literary Work

Abstract

The aim of the study is an attempt at a biographical analysis of an interesting personality of the Russian interwar right-wing emigration, General Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov. At the same time, the study contains an analysis of part of his literary work, especially with regard to his far-right political views. Based on the study of two of Krasnov’s key works, the novels From the Double-Headed Eagle to the Red Flag and Behind the Thistle, the intention is to point out the right-wing ideas of the White Army general and graphomaniac, and to capture, using Krasnov’s example, the ideas that the Russian right-wing emigration in the interwar period was concerned with.