The Trans-Volga Lithuanian diaspora has for more than 150 years traversed the challenges of assimilation into a majoritarian Russian society. However, in the contemporary era, the third- and fourth-generation descendants’ resilience to assimilation is focused on sensitivity to roots and a valorisation of the diasporic past. The role of agency in diasporic memory, place-making and cultural representations is of key importance. The aim of this paper is to focus on the post-diasporic domains of communality by highlighting the shared values and aspirations, strategies and experiences of the reclamation and heritagisation of diasporic legacy. Analysis of fieldwork among the descendants has shown that their resilience to assimilation is grounded in the dominant narrative of the heroic past of the diaspora firstcomers: in terms of—Lithuanians as pioneers of the Kazakh steppe; in the heritagisation of Lithuanian objects and places via collection and museumisation of ethnographic objects, and co-memorising; the re-Lithuanianisation of diaspora places through erecting Catholic chapels and crosses; and in the festive representations of traditional Trans-Volga Lithuanian culture at state-sponsored local multicultural festivals.

150 多年来，伏尔加河沿岸的立陶宛侨民一直在经历融入俄罗斯多数社会的挑战。然而，在当代，第三代和第四代后裔对同化的抵抗力集中在对根源的敏感性和对流散过去的重视上。代理在离散记忆、场所营造和文化表征中的作用至关重要。本文的目的是通过强调侨民遗产的回收和传承的共同价值观和愿望、策略和经验，重点关注侨民后的社区领域。对后裔的田野调查分析表明，他们对同化的抵抗力植根于散居海外的先来者英雄过去的主导叙述：就立陶宛人而言，他们是哈萨克草原的先驱；通过民族志物品的收藏和博物馆化以及共同记忆来实现立陶宛物品和地点的遗产化；通过建立天主教教堂和十字架，将侨居地重新立陶宛化；立陶宛传统跨伏尔加文化在国家主办的当地多元文化节日中的节日表现。