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This article deals with the role of Croatian social activist, publicist and businessman Krunoslav Heruc in development of inter-Slavic cultural relations. Since the young age he became a supporter of nationalist Croatian Party of Rights and was forced to leave his motherland. From the middle of 1880s he lived in Russia when worked in editorial Office of magazine “Slavyanskie izvestiya” and established the book store in St. Petersburg. Although his business existed only few years Heruc played very important role in spreading of Russian literature among another Slavic peoples and knowledge about Croatia in Russia.