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Russian philosophy

  • SlavophiliaMoscow in the 1830s became the birthplace of Slavophilia, an intellectual movement that rejected Western European modernization.
  • Moscow, third RomeOn the 29th of May 1453, Ottoman forces under Mehmed II breached the walls of Constantinople. This event shattered the Eastern Roman Empire and left Orthodox…
  • RoerichismHelena Roerich was born in 1879 into a family of Ivan Shaposhnikov, a well-known Saint-Petersburg architect. Her mother belonged to the ancient…
  • Russian philosophyArchimandrite Gabriel published the first history of Russian philosophy in 1840, yet scholars still argue over where this tradition begins.