Contents Andreev encyclopaedia Nominal index Subject-heading
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The Rose of the World. Book 7-12 (fragments). Glossary of terms. Russian Gods (fragments). The Iron Mystery (fragments). Verses and Poems (fragments). Letters (fragments). The Newest Plutarch (fragments). Reminiscences on Daniil Andreev (fragments). Alla Andreeva. The Voyage to the Heavenly Cremlin (fragmrnts). |
It is typical, that foreigners of any nationality … catch emotional sounding and recognize the presence of world scales not at Pushkin, but at Lermontov. <… >
of his storming, scorching hot imagination and his powerful, cold mind; the over-nationality of his mental structure with the primordially Russian spontaneity of feelings; <…> the deep religiousness of his nature, switching even doubt from the plan of philosophical statements in the plan of God-fighter revolt, – a heritage of ancient embodiments of this monad in titan humanity; the highest degree of artistic giftedness with the severe strictness to himself, forcing him to select for publication only the masterpieces from masterpieces...
Lermontov is a mystic in essence. <…> his internal organs – spiritual sight, hearing and deep memory, and also the gift to contemplate space panoramas and the gift to comprehend human souls – are slightly opened since his birth, and the second reality, a reality, not a fantasy, filters through them into the sphere of his consciousness. <…> he was a person living by all the completeness of life and a huge mind – one of the greatest in our 19th-century country. The God-fighter tendency was shown at him therefore not only in the layer of deep memory mystical experience,
but also in the layer especially intellectual, and in the layer of daily effective manifestations, in his life. <…>
he could not be satisfied with the formula “words of a poet are his affairs”. All Michail Yuryevich's life was, as a matter of fact, painful searches to what to apply the tearing him force. <…> Possibly this titan would never resolve the problem set to him – to merge artistic creativity with spiritual making and with the feat of life, to turn from a herald to a prophet. <…>
now he is one of the most brilliant stars in the Synklite of Russia, <…> he invisible passes between us and through us, creates above us and in us, and both the volume and the greatness of this creativity are unfancied in any our forestalling. |
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