Pyotr mamonov biography of mahatma
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8/10
Best seen in the context of Russian film history
I saw that this film had won the Nike award (Russian equivalent of Oscar), so took advantage of a showing on the Russian channel on DirectTV (unsubtitled). I checked out the "Hollywood Reporter's" review of the showing in Cannes, and the first line of that review corresponds to the first comment I would post myself, relating it to Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev"(1967) and Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible." (1944)
While the title of the film is "Tsar," the personality of the Metropolitan Fillip, played by Oleg Yankovsky, really dominates. Ivan is viewed through Andrei's eyes, and is judged by his values. Like Tarkovsky's "Rublev" Fillip attempts to find spiritual meaning in the harshness of his times, and Ivan at first come across as an object of pity to whom the church father attempts to give spiritual guidance. The film presents of trinity of
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Index
"Index". The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis, edited by Sibelan Forrester and Olga ovanligt ord, Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2024, pp. 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
(2024). Index. In S. Forrester & O. ovanligt ord (Ed.), The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, uppdrag, and Metamorphosis (pp. 352-364). Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
2024. Index. In: Forrester, S. and ovanligt ord, O. ed. The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, pp. 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
"Index" In The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis edited by Sibelan Forrester and Olga ovanligt ord, 352-364. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
Index. In: Forrester S, ovanligt ord O (ed.) The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press; 2024
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Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration 9780300162899
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Note On Dates And Transliterations
Introduction: What Is Russian Orientalism?
1. The Forest And The Steppe
2. The Petrine Dawn
3. Catherinian Chinoiserie
4. The Oriental Muse
5. The Kazan School
6. Missionary Orientology
7. The Rise Of The St. Petersburg School
8. The Oriental Faculty
9. The Exotic Self
Conclusion: Asia In The Russian Mind
Notes
Index
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RUSSIAN ORIENTALISM
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Russian Orientalism Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
New Haven & London
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