Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci

by Avril Pyman

Overview

The first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose great genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441187000
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/25/2010
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Avril Pyman is Reader Emerita in Russian Literature at the University of Durham, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is an expert in Russian literature of the 'Silver Age' and has published a major biography of Aleksandr Blok (2 volumes, 1980) and A History of Russian Symbolism (1994), as well as many translations from Russian.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsForeword by Geoffrey HoskingPrefaceChapter I: Childhood Chapter II: School Chapter III: From the Physico-Mathematical Faculty at Moscow University to the New Religious Consciousness Chapter IV: The Melting-Pot. Autumn 1904 - Autumn 1908 Chapter V: The Quiet Mutiny Chapter VI: The Four-leafed Clover Chapter VII: Catastrophe. 1917-1926 Chapter VIII: Diversification - Art, Music and Science 1919-1933 Chapter IX: Permafrost
 
Glossary of Names
Chronology of Florensky's Life
Index