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“Together with them, you have long been shaking the foundations of the sacred Tsar’s Throne…” Assessments of the Activities of Prince G. E. Lvov on the Pages of the Emigré Periodical Press
The article examines the assessments of the political and social activities of the Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government and leader of the Union of Zemstvos Georgy Lvov, reflected in the press of the Russian Diaspora in the 1920–1930s, the formation of which was a consequence of the October Revolution and the Civil War. The sources of the article are such periodicals of the White émigré as «Poslednie novosti», «Russkaia gazeta», «Dvuglavyi orel», «Vysshii monarkhicheskii sovet», «Russkaia letopis'», «Volia Rossii» and memoirs of contemporaries of Prince Georgy Lvov. The article examines the assessments by representatives of the White émigré of the work of the Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee of Russian Citizens Abroad, which maintained continuity in relation to pre-revolutionary Russian zemstvo, the first chairman of which was Georgy Lvov.
Keywords: Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov; Russian immigration; periodicals; Zemgor; Russian nobility