“Basic encyclopaedia” placed on this page is addressing to them who are interested in Daniil Leonidovich Andreev’s life and works in the literal, direct, narrow sense. It contains the arranged in alphabetical order links to so called basic articles, embracing:
1) all names and many subjects which are met in the first four-volume collected works by D. Andreev, in that number in the other authors’ texts, having been included in this collection (prefaces, commentaries, foot-notes, indexes, and memoirs on D. Andreev), as well as in the book “The Voyage to the Heavenly Kremlin” by A.A. Andreeva;
2) all names and many subjects that met in D. Andreev’s works not included in the indicated collection;
2) names of the authors not having been called in D. Andreev’s texts, but created the works or characters mentioned by him;
3) names of the persons not having been called in D. Andreev’s texts directly, but having been imlied, i.e. mentioned indirectly or euphemisticly;
4) names of the authors of works on D. Andreev.
Names and subjects, which are met in the texts by D. Andreev himself, are distinguished by bold font. Names and subjects, which are met in the texts not belonging to D. Andreev, are distinguished by bold font with an asterisk*. Names and subjects, which don’t have been called directly, but have been imlied, are distinguished by bold italic font. Terms consisting of a few words are located in alpahabetical list not only according to a first word, but also, thanks to rotation, according to each of words.
This web-page is not exhaustive yet; it is under construction.
Readers, wishing to acquaint themselves with D. Andreev’s life and works in much more wide context, are directed at Macropaedia which also can be called “Widened encyclopaedia”, or “Great Andreev encyclopaedia”. Its contents is presented in the form of systematic outline. It is organized according to systematic-hierarchic principle and embraces not only D. Andreev’s life and works, but topics touched in his heritage, in other authors’ articles on Andreev, as well as kindred topics. The enlargement is conducting in those basic directions, which, in the compiler’s opinion, are main tasks of Andreev study:
1) in chronological scope – names, realities, and events belonging to the period passed after Andreev’s death (1959 to present) are embraced in addition. A reader is put also in the sphere of modern notions about topics touched by Andreev;
2) in cultural study – if D. Andreev concentrated mainly upon the Russian metaculture, the compiler considered to be his task to give the richest material on the most important aspects of 34 metacultures of humanity. To prepare the way for the coming metahistorians of these metacultures, he has given as a certain model of such research his own, relatively detailed elaboration on the metahistory of the Jewish mataculture;
3) in personal and subject range – for example, presumptive heralds and folk-influers not having been called by Andreev are described; zhrugrites, the offsprings of Zhrugr the Second and Zhrugr the Third, are explained with description of their human puppets and connected to them realities which haven’t concrete expression in Andreev’s texts; and so on;
4) in esoteric sphere – D. Andreev’s works are compared with main schools of the esoteric Tradition.
The Macropaedia’s vocabulary is presented also in alphabetical form, with the help of the Nominal index and the Subject-heading, They include all articles of the Basic encyclopaedia as well.
Macropedia is under construction going toward widening the vocabulary, increasing the volume of many articles having already been included in it, impoving their contents and technical equipment, toward the further replenishment of bibliographies for articles.
ancient Athens,
Areopagus, earliest aristocratic council of ancient Athens
Athens, historic city and capital of Greece
Belomor Canal, a canal connected the White Sea and the Baltic Sea and built using slave convict labour
Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich (1899–1953), director of the Soviet secret police who played a major role in the purges of Stalin's opponents
bodies of state security, the political police in the Soviet state and in post-Soviet Russia
Cologne (in Russian ʸëüí), a city in Germany, on the Rhine River. 
Reference: [Ekchart §1, §3]
Don River, one of the great rivers of the European portion of Russia
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich (1877–1926), Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization
Ekchart, Meister (ñ. 1260 – 1327/1328?), Dominican theologian and writer who was the greatest German speculative mystic
famous show trials, three widely publicized show trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned
intellect (in Russian ðàçóì), the ability to learn and reason as distinguished from the ability to feel or will; capacity for knowledge and understanding
Khazars, the, members of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century AD established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia
Koltsov, Aleksey Vasilyevich (1809–1842), Russian poet whose works describe the Russian peasant life in which he was brought up
Konopnicka, Maria (1842–1910), author of short stories and one of the representative Positivist poets in Polish literature
matter (in Russian ìàòåðèÿ), material substance that constitutes the observable universe and, together with energy, forms the basis of all objective phenomena
natural,
nature,
NEP, the, the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism
pantheism, the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe
pantheistic, characteristic to panteism
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (flourished c. 500), probably a Syrian monk who wrote a series of öùêëû for the purpose of uniting Neoplatonic philosophy with Christian theology and mystical experience
Sofyin, Konstantin Vladimirovich (b. 1977), an author of the works on D. Andreev
Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich (1853–1900), the greatest Russian philosopher, a visionary
Voronezh, city and administrative centre of Voronezh oblast (province), western Russia
Yagoda, Genrikh Grigoryevich (1891–1938), head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin from 1934 to 1936 and a central figure in the purge trials
Yezhov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1895–1939), Russian Communist Party official who, while chief of the Soviet security police (NKVD) from 1936 to 1938, administered the most severe stage of the great purges
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