Article on
oriental influence on Russian writers:
What Russian
Writers Learnt From India
Aravindan Neelakandan - Jan
10, 2016
Viktor
Vladimirovich Khlebnikov (1885-1922) was a major poet-philosopher of Russian
Futurist movement. A minor planet has been named after him too. Influenced by
Helena Blavatsky, the founder of theosophical movement, Khlebnikov considered
her ‘the only one who traveled to India in search of what it means to be a
Russian’ (4). In his lyrical prose work titled‘Yasir’ which means ‘captive’, he
explores Indian themes elaborately. It is about Istoma, the alter-ego of
Khlebnikov, who wanders in search of a principle that shall provide ‘liberty to
all oppressed people’ and finds it in the all-embracing universal soul – Brahman
and non-dualism (Advaita).
http://swarajyamag.com/culture/what-russian-writers-learnt-from-india
http://swarajyamag.com/culture/what-russian-writers-learnt-from-india
Peter
Kropotkin - Blavatsky connection? She was an admirer of Tolstoi, so there is
one. Covers Russian intellectual mood of the era.
Milan
Djurasovic — October 23, 2016
Russian
literature of the mentioned period is replete with Nietzschean influences and
extremely subjective and individualist themes (the abstract ideas of Helena P.
Blavatsky and Nicholas Roerich, the obsession with the notion of fin de siècle
of many artists and Symbolist writers such as Alexander A. Blok and Andrei
Bely, the preoccupation with eternal life, the overbearing fear of the looming
Asiatic invasion, etc.). Additionally, a number of predominantly English
influential thinkers and scientists had isolated and focused only on the
Malthusian aspects of Darwin’s theory of natural selection (intraspecific competition
and overpopulation), and had manipulated these ideas to justify the brutal
conquests of foreign lands as well as the extreme economic inequality in their
own country.[2]
https://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/23/morality-the-lust-for-pleasure-the-case-of-peter-kropotkin/
see Blavatsky article on Tolstoi: Tolstoi's Unecclesiastical Christianity
see Blavatsky article on Tolstoi: Tolstoi's Unecclesiastical Christianity
Why the Soviets
Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom
Dimitra Nikolaidou September 15, 2016
Unfortunately for the Roerichs, the
area they aimed to investigate was all but inaccessible in the early 20th
century. Tibet was closed to foreigners; moreover, the Soviets, the French, the
English, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Mongolians and the Germans vied for
control of the place. Spies, rebels and rogue warlords clashed daily in the
mountain passes making the expedition extremely hazardous. The rivalry between
the USSR and the British Empire in particular, was so intense it was nicknamed
“the Great Game”.
In an article entitled “Turkish Barbarities”, she wrote during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878:
“I regard this war not as one of Christian against Muslim, but as one of humanity and civilization against barbarism.”
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v1/y1877_009.htm
Blavatsky's
translation of Leo Tolstoy's The Imp and the Crust (1889)
Interesting Blavatsky
article The Jews in Russia
New York World,
Sept. 25th, 1877
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