Дневник Записки о моей жизни. Переписка

Autographs diary I. Gagarin and his autobiographical "Memoirs of My Life" is stored in the archives of the Paris he founded the Slavic Library in Meudon (near Paris). Blog covers 8 years of life of the young Prince Ivan Gagarin, during which the brilliant Russian aristocrat reincarnated in the French Jesuit priest, Jean-Xavier. Renouncing title generic status, social status, always refused to live with relatives and friends, 40 years old, he will be a fugitive in Italy, Syria and France. In exile, Ivan Gagarin devoted himself ambitious mission - reconciliation and unification of the Eastern Church with the Western Church. In the mid-50s, he settled in Paris and became the center of a circle consisting of his countrymen. The archive library stored above letters to him Herzen, FITyutchev, PY Chaadaev, Nikolai Leskov, Aksakov, and other prominent people of the time.