Margarita Sabashnikova, Russian Culture, Russian Modernism, antroposophy, Rudolf Steiner

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My article presents Margarita Sabashnikova, a promoter of anthroposophy in Russia in the beginning of the twentieth century. Her memories written in exile, entitled  "A green snake. A history of a life" illustrate life of Russian intelligentsia, most of whom were forced to leave their homeland  due to radical social and political transformations. Sabashnikova, a painter and a promoter of anthroposophy consciously chose to be an émigré  and settled down in Germany. Sabashnikova was prepared to live in exile from her childhood thanks to her immersion in Western culture. Her existence in culture is fully expressed in anthroposophy, where she found the meaning of life, art and evolution in culture as well as the meaning of  surrounding social and political reality.