The article focuses on the Far Eastern life period of the writer and photographer Mikhail Vasilyevich Shcherbakov (1896–1956). Staying in Vladivostok during the Civil War in Russia and then leaving for China, he found himself at the center of the literary movement in the Russian Far East and the Russian diaspora in China. Shcherbakov came to prominence as the author of numerous poetic and prose works reflecting his interest in ethnography, as well as a public figure, board chair of Ponedelnik, Association of Russian art people, and a member of another artistic association Vostok. The article is based on the rare materials discovered in Russian and international collections
M. V. Shcherbakov (1896–1956), Russians in Shanghai, Russian literature in China, Russian culture in China
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