Russian historical novelist Natalya Irtenina examines the very modern phenomenon of Christian conviction without faith – an attribute of those who struggle toward God in a godless age, a world suffocated by rationalist constructs and eviscerated by nihilism. The brilliant poet …
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Russia & The Revolution
As liberal revolutions ignited across Europe in 1848, poet and diplomat Fyodor Tyutchev shared his thoughts on the situation in his April treatise Russia and the Revolution, both an incisive analysis of Western culture’s trajectory toward disintegration and a call …
Empire of the East
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) was not only one of 19th-Century Russia’s greatest poets, he also was a professional diplomat with penetrating geopolitical vision. The following notes would have formed the basic structure for the sixth chapter of his unfinished 1849 treatise …
