Aleksandrov, R. N.

Pisʹma k Neizvestnomu Drugu [Letters to an Unknown Friend]

Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1951. Item #1414

192 pages: frontispiece portrait by N. Nico. In original dust jacket. 21 cm. Internally clean and complete. Publisher’s wrappers with moderate wear; dust jacket is present but split along folds and chipped with loss; old shelf label and library stamp of "Biblioteka Posev No. 774". With the owner's inscription dated 1952.

A scarce and ideologically significant émigré publication, this book presents a sequence of philosophical letters by Rostislav Nikolaevich Aleksandrov (1911–1947), an intellectual and ideologue of the Natsional’no-Trudovoi Soiuz (NTS), the principal anti-communist Russian underground movement in exile. Written in a confessional tone and drawing from a blend of Christian personalism and nationalist ethics, this book outlines Aleksandrov’s vision of spiritual resistance and civic responsibility under conditions of political oppression.

Aleksandrov, a doctor of philology and an active publicist, died prematurely at the age of 36. His intellectual legacy is introduced here through biographical remarks and prefaces by S. Levitskii and E. Romanov. The frontispiece portrait is executed by émigré artist N. Nico. Published by Posev, the publishing house affiliated with the NTS and headquartered in the DP camps of postwar Germany, this book was intended both as a manual for ideological grounding and as a work of inner emigration.

Price: $100.00