Russian House in Brussels Commemorates Fallen Soldiers at Ixelles Cemetery

RusHouse2025-06-20T16:12:29+02:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: History Club, Our Compatriots, Russian House News, Victory80, With Russian Roots|Tags: 80th anniversary of Victory, Great Patriotic War, History, History Club, Russian History, Shafrova-Marutaeva, Victory80, With Russian Roots, WWII|

Brussels, May 8, 2025 — On Victory Day, representatives of the Russian House in Brussels laid flowers at Ixelles Cemetery, where Soviet soldiers who died in Belgium during the First and Second World Wars are buried. The annual ceremony symbolizes gratitude and remembrance for those who gave their lives in the fight for freedom and peace in Europe. A special guest at the ceremony was Liliane Maroutaeff, daughter of Yury Maroutaev, a member of the Belgian Resistance. His first wife was Marina Shafroff-Maroutaeva, a heroic figure of the Russian émigré community in Belgium. Marina Shafroff-Maroutaeva, daughter of a naval engineer [...]

24 09, 2024

Belgians in the land of the Tsars in 1900. Lecture by prof. Vladimir Ronin
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Belgians in the land of the Tsars in 1900. Lecture by prof. Vladimir Ronin

RusHouse2024-09-30T09:37:54+02:00September 24th, 2024|Categories: Event, History and Memory, History Club, With Russian Roots|Tags: Event, History, History Club, I World War, Memory, Ronin|

Russia and Belgium have fascinating pages of history together. There have been several periods when our countries were closely connected, and when people from both countries interacted a lot. One of these was the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the period of the First World War, which began exactly 110 years ago. We're so excited to announce that the famous historian professor Vladimir Ronin will be giving three lectures on this dramatic and fateful period! These lectures are a must-listen for anyone interested in history. We invite you to join us at the History Club, a new [...]

2 10, 2020

Marina Shafrova-Marutaeva – The Russian Heroine of the Belgian Resistance: A Memorial Evening in Brussels
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Marina Shafrova-Marutaeva – The Russian Heroine of the Belgian Resistance: A Memorial Evening in Brussels

RusHouse2025-06-20T16:13:51+02:00October 2nd, 2020|Categories: History Club, Our Compatriots, Victory80|Tags: Chafroff, History, History Club, Shafrova-Marutaeva, With Russian Roots, WWII|

At the Russian House in Brussels, an evening was held in memory of Marina Shafrova-Marutaeva, a Russian noblewoman who became a heroine of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She went down in history as the "Belgian Joan of Arc" for her bravery and selfless fight against the Nazis. In 1941, she attacked a German officer, for which she was arrested, but she managed to escape. Later, she actively assisted the Resistance, participating in sabotage operations and rescuing prisoners of war. After the war, she devoted herself to literature, leaving behind memoirs of her heroic deeds. The evening featured [...]

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