Everyday life of the academic emigration in Sofia in 1920s-1940s: private correspondence as a source for the reconstruction of M. G. Popruzhenko’s biography

Abstract

The article aims to reconstruct the biography of M. Popruzhenko (1866-1944), who was a professor at Novorossiysky University in Odessa, but in 1920 abandoned his motherland and settled down in Sofia. The research is based on the private correspondence of M. Popruzhenko and his nephew A. Florovsky as well as the correspondence of the latter and his sister K. Florovska.  The author reveals new aspects of M. Popruzheko’s everyday life in Sofia.