In the light of the debates on the national identity and on immigrants, we would like to pay attention in this article to the beginning of the immigration in France. We will take as an example the Russian emigration during the period between two wars, which was one of the first in France since 1920 to introduce into the visual arts the image of refugee: symbolical in the cinema, and ironical and satirical in the press illustrations. Starting from the caricatures of La Russie Illustrée and Satyricon, the specific feature of which was to use in the illustrations the character of the Russian emigrant, we will try to stress upon the representations that Russians make from their different identity poles, when it is about either their native country or France, their host country, about religion, ideology or language. Our research will be the first step in the study of Russian emigrants identity representations in the press illustrations in exile, despite the great number of articles of Slavonic researchers dedicated to the Russian illustrated press in France between two wars.
