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  1. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 3. Dark Shepherd

    As is known, Stalin saw to the rehabilitation of certain monsters of the past – Ivan the Terrible and Malyuta Skuratov, for instance. Yet, he gave a contemptuous remark about Ivan the Terrible in the end: “After execution of just a handful of boyars, he prays and thumps his chest for two weeks...
  2. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 3. Dark Shepherd

    This is only natural, for not only the third witzraor of Russia loomed behind the images of both leaders of revolutionary Russia – there towered also the shadow of an incomparably more formidable planetary being, the executor of the great demonic plan called Urparp. Yet, the significance...
  3. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 3. Dark Shepherd

    In his astounding poem “Prediction”, which the young Lermontov wrote in 1830, he talks about the uncrowning of the royal dynasty, of the people’s renunciation of their former rulers, and the rape and pillage that would sweep across the country. Amid all this mayhem, as he continues, there would...
  4. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 2. Combating Spirituality

    Compared to any other phenomena of spiritual and intellectual order, even to pure science that is driven in the main by the thirst for knowledge, technology cannot but be throughout utilitarian. The psyche of people that routinely work in technologies, over technologies, and with technologies...
  5. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 2. Combating Spirituality

    A popular belief has it that poor material conditions of the society invariably translate into its spiritual poverty. And vice versa: material prosperity is bound to entail spiritual wealth. Objective historical observations do not support this thesis. Until the late phase of capitalism, wealth...
  6. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 1. The Enthronement of the Third Zhrugr

    And so, at the turn of the twentieth century, Yarosvet carried on his simultaneous struggle with the old Zhrugr and all his three spawns. Yet, this struggle was aimed at harnessing rather than stamping out the entire Zhrugr brood: however much the witzraor, together with his offspring...
  7. Даниил Андреев

    XI. Chapter 1. The Enthronement of the Third Zhrugr

    When finishing the book on the metahistory of the Petersburg Empire, I compared two historical figures, whose characters and appearances are so different that putting them together would seem out of the ordinary. Yet, their historical roles are not only comparable, but, to a point, one comes as...
  8. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 5. The Fall of the Messenger

    First, in his blindness, Blok lauds Navna, taking her for the Eternal Femininity. Then he sings of Velga, taking her for Navna, with his blindness being even more aggravated. Yet, this is only the beginning. Unsatiated with love affairs and minglings with people, Blok’s passionate love for...
  9. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 5. The Fall of the Messenger

    The immense corpus of research on Alexander Blok emerged in rather specific conditions, of which we know all too well. It should come as no surprise that hardly has anybody posed the problem of Blok’s inner evolution. Of course, there is an official version to the effect that Blok came to...
  10. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 4. Missions and Destinies (end)

    Those following the train of my thoughts, perhaps, expect me to characterize along the same lines, other bearers of the “messagery” gift in Russian literature: Alexei Tolstoy, Tyutchev, Leskov, Chekhov, Blok. But, for the purposes of this writing, I would rather indefinitely postpone sharing my...
  11. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 4. Missions and Destinies (end)

    There is a specificity in the history of Russian culture which, once taken notice of, stuns and gives rise to rather disturbing thoughts. Antiquity would strike one with quite versatile and intense expressions of the Feminine Principle in the Greek mythology. Without Athena, Artemis, and...
  12. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 3. Missions and Destinies (cont.)

    Speaking of the historical and psychological prerequisites of the Rose of the World, I have already taken notice of a major one: relieving the long-standing confrontation between the ascetic-spiritual and the so-called “heathen” principles. The self-contained ascetic principle was justified by...
  13. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 3. Missions and Destinies (cont.)

    When describing – to the best of my ability – the nature of the connection between humankind and the sakwala of Daemons in the chapter on the middle planes of Shadanakar, I mentioned the race of metaprototypes that abide close to daemons and are essential for understanding certain works of art...
  14. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 2. Missions and Destinies

    The mission of Pushkin, not without difficulties and only partially, is yet explicable in human terms; essentially, it is clear. Lermontov’s mission is one of the deepest enigmas of our culture. From a very early age, Lermontov featured as follows: the unflagging feeling of his chosenness, of...
  15. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 2. Missions and Destinies

    All that is created by the demiurge Yarosvet, all that is manifesting his influence upon the historical plane is directly or indirectly connected to his supreme task, which realization has to justify the thousand-year path of gory and appallingly agonizing development of the Russian suprapeople...
  16. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 1. The Gift of Messagery

    They say: “Genius and wickedness do not go together”. It is hard to say so judging by historical facts. Be that as it may, heavy vices, deep downfalls, numerous little weaknesses, even transgressions of basic ethical norms are not only compatible with artistic genius but, in the majority of...
  17. Даниил Андреев

    X. Chapter 1. The Gift of Messagery

    In one of the preceding chapters, I have already pointed out that the cultural horizon of medieval Russia featured no brilliant thinkers. Neither was this period abundant with artistic geniuses. However, never again did the Russian metaculture shine with such a plethora of saints and righteous...
  18. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 4. The Feat

    «Statehood is marred with the primordial sin; its enlightenment is impossible» – Alexander I could have clothed his subjective experience of kingship in such a formula, unwittingly making use of traditional notions of Christianity. Alexander I himself – both as a monarch and breacher of ethical...
  19. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 3. Withdrawal of the Sanction

    When, finally, Count Pahlen (a Baltic German courtier and general, translator’s note) wrung a consent for the overthrow of Pavel I out of Prince Alexander, it was just that – a consent for the overthrow. There was no question about killing the half-looney emperor. It was presumed that the...
  20. Даниил Андреев

    IX. Chapter 2. The Second Witzraor and the Homeland Space

    In trying to project what the demiurge demanded of the demon of statehood in the times of Peter I onto the plane of human notions, I have emphasized in the preceding chapters the imperious need for inner reform in Russia, namely: the elimination of the boyars as the leading force in the state...
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