Sentinel (magazine)

It was founded in 1929 in Paris by white emigrant officers - Vasily Vasilyevich Orekhov and Eugene Tarussky . Here is how V.Orekhov spoke about this in an interview with Posev magazine in 1979 :

“In the 1920s, all white fighters lived on the hope of an immediate resumption of armed struggle, and we all lived with feasible preparation for this opportunity ... But when the waiting time increased, then the idea arose of creating a communications body for the Russian army abroad, which received full approval General Wrangel in 1928. The jubilee issue of the Sentinel issued in January describes the beginning of its foundation with the approval of General Kutepov , who replaced General Wrangel at his post after his death. “Sentinel” was founded as an independent magazine, but closely connected with the Russian All-Military Union , on the position of which he has stood for all these 50 years. ”

Since 1936, the publication of the magazine had to be moved to Brussels , as the French government was unhappy with the position of the editorial office aimed at supporting General Franco , whose attempted coup d'etat served as the beginning of the Spanish Civil War . The publication continued in Brussels until 1988 , after which the release was discontinued due to the age of the editor-publisher Vasily Vasilievich Orekhov, who died in 1990 at the age of 94. In just 60 years, 669 issues of the magazine have been issued. The magazine was published in pre-reform spelling until 1948. Starting from No. 277 (8) of September 1948, the magazine began to appear in the “new” spelling.

Initially, the editors of the magazine were V. Orekhov, E. Tarussky, P. G. Arkhangelsky, S. K. Tereshchenko , V. V. Polyansky. Subsequently, Polyansky and Arkhangelsky left the magazine, Tereshchenko died in 1935 , Tarussky died at the end of World War II . Vasily Vasilievich Orekhov remained the permanent editor of the magazine until the last issue printed on a rotator in 1988 .

The magazine is divided into the following sections: military, naval, political, historical, rubric on the Red Army. The magazine covered the life of the Russian military from generals and officers to ordinary soldiers, news from the “hot spots” where Russian troops participated in battles, articles on the history of the Russian army, and much more. The authors of the journal were generals, senior military officials, prominent public figures in Russia and abroad: N. N. Golovin , A. K. Baiov , Yu. N. Danilov , A. A. Kersnovsky , A. A. Zaitov , V. H. Dowatz . At the end of the thirties, two new sections appeared in the journal: The Scout and Faith. Homeland. Family". In the second section, the famous Russian philosopher, ideologist of the “white cause”, professor I. A. Ilyin was repeatedly published. “Sentinel” can rightfully be called a chronicle of the Russian army in exile, an encyclopedia of military thought abroad.

• Yuri Pskovityanin (1900-1972) - Russian poet and writer.

• Russian General Military Union (ROVS)
• " Our News "
• " Herald of the ROVS "

• Russia Outside Russia. University Library. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (inaccessible link)
• The continuity of the struggle is necessary. Interview with the editor of the magazine “Sentinel” V.V. Orekhov. "Sowing" (1979, No. 6)
• An article about V.V. Orekhov as a church figure
• Digitized version of the magazine (almost complete binder)
• Digitized version of individual issues of Sentinel magazine for different years