Russian culture
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Russian culture
19.99 €
"Russian Culture" is the last posthumously published book by the outstanding Russian scholar and philologist, Academician Dmitry Likhachev. This is his "testament", the result of many years of reflection on Russian and world culture - and on Russia itself: amazing, dual and seeking extremes in everything...
The future academician was born before the revolution, in 1906. The whole of Russia of the 20th century is imprinted in his memory - from the "artisans and ballerinas" of the tsarist era to Stalinism, the siege of Leningrad and the "thaw". He knew Russia for a century - but he writes as if he had lived a thousand years and reduced its history to one point: in his book, Yaroslav the Wise and Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Sergius of Radonezh, the icon painter Dionysius and Ivan the Terrible "side by side". But, turning to the past, Likhachev invariably seeks answers for the present - and calls for responsibility for it.
The author writes about literature and language, painting and architecture, the national character of Russians - and about culture as a "whole environment" from which one part cannot be removed without destroying the whole. But this is not a cold game of erudition, but a reflection on good and evil, the individual and the crowd, freedom in an era of cruelty and selflessness of conscience - a thought guided by a deep moral feeling.
This is a real manifesto of humanism - and an assertion that culture, in the words of the author, is stronger and more necessary than an "armada of tanks."
The future academician was born before the revolution, in 1906. The whole of Russia of the 20th century is imprinted in his memory - from the "artisans and ballerinas" of the tsarist era to Stalinism, the siege of Leningrad and the "thaw". He knew Russia for a century - but he writes as if he had lived a thousand years and reduced its history to one point: in his book, Yaroslav the Wise and Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Sergius of Radonezh, the icon painter Dionysius and Ivan the Terrible "side by side". But, turning to the past, Likhachev invariably seeks answers for the present - and calls for responsibility for it.
The author writes about literature and language, painting and architecture, the national character of Russians - and about culture as a "whole environment" from which one part cannot be removed without destroying the whole. But this is not a cold game of erudition, but a reflection on good and evil, the individual and the crowd, freedom in an era of cruelty and selflessness of conscience - a thought guided by a deep moral feeling.
This is a real manifesto of humanism - and an assertion that culture, in the words of the author, is stronger and more necessary than an "armada of tanks."
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