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Записные листы Николая Рериха – космическая эссеистика

Olga Lavrenova

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 289-297

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.17.024.7789

Nikolay Roerich’s Note Sheets as the Cosmic Essayistics

Note Leaves or Diary Leaves by Nicholas Roerich it’s a collection of essays, which covered a wide range of issues, from the important events of his time to the cosmic origin of the culture. This is one of the unfairly little-known highly artistic samples of literature, these notes are synthetic in nature, including philosophy and ethics. Most of these essays were published during the life of the artist and the philosopher in American, Indian, Latin American and Manchurian press in context of Roerich’s socio-cultural activities, primarily the establishment of The Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientifi c Institutions and Historic Monuments or Roerich Pact. The essays in fact given the world view in past, present and future.

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《Kljuchsvoda》: CytadelA. Exupery i Naputstvie Vozhdyu o dukhovnom voditel'stve i ideal'nom gosudarstve

Olga Lavrenova

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2019, pp. 189-202

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.19.017.10675

The state as a Citadel of the spirit, led by a wise Ruler, is an idea that seems utopian after all the cruel social experiments of the 20th century. But the course of world history is not created in the offi ces of modern politicians. The milestones of the coming evolution are formed by the thought which is consonant with the divine Beauty, this idea is dedicated to one of the last works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – philosophical story-parable Citadel. The heights of the human spirit, which were the basis of the Citadel, were amazingly accordant with the ideas of the book Parting Words to the Leader, a little earlier created on the Himalayan heights.

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