Yes indeed, it's a very smart system. Because people who want to be virtuous will feel virtuous by supporting the Tsar, the support they show to the Tsar is part of their own sense of moral worth.
thank you so much for this snippet floris! so many connections to how modern culture is shaping up to be now! so quickly are online subcultures and specifically political subcultures actively taking any new theory or idea they find as dogma or something irrefutable; and then a week later a new dogma takes its place. and that last idea of being able to love from a distance is so true! i felt like, especially as ive been reading some of the more pastoral and some of the more political, philosophical sections of anna karenina, I cant help but feel that tolstoy was also a bit of an idealist and a romaticizor at a few extents of the peasantry. but I'm still reading it, and i still cant say for sure. but this was so amazing to read, thank you again for sharing this floris!
Thank you so much for your comment, you make very interesting connections! I agree yes that certain online subcultures can experience the same detachment very much alike the one that the Russian intelligentsia experienced. Also although I haven’t read it, in my history book where I got most of this information(A People’s Tragedy) Levin is mentioned as a primary example of the romantic idealization of the peasantry, although nevertheless I think we can learn a lot from him
he is such a wonderfully idealistic man who i relate to way too much, so much that i didn’t even consider his idealism that daft until now! levin is for sure an idealist of the peasantry like the intelligentsia, but he is still my favorite! i hope you can get to read or listen to that book soon!
Such fun reading this, I agree just because there is a historical explanation for why certain characters are the way they are doesn’t take away their brilliance.
I want to read AK next summer when I finally finish high school
I found the section on the Russian intelligentsia especially interesting. Being isolated from both the regime and the people they wanted to speak for seems to have made ideas easier to turn into absolutes rather than something tested against ordinary life.
Thank you for the comment, researching the Russian intelligentsia I found it fascinating as well and then to realise that there wasn't any intellectual movement that has had an impact as large as them. Eventually (in my next chapters) they will form a completely new unconventional archetype: The Terrorist Intellectual.
Another time I will post about my friend, Vera.. who is still alive and doing Ok. She is 100 percent Russian and has many stories to tell of her mother and father.. both of whom I knew and met.. RIP.. wonderful people. .fled to Canada during WW2. of White Russian background w. tragic stories.. I mean that. The Russians really know how suffer and survive. I took care of her mother for two weeks in 2010 (her nurse needed a day off).. and I went with her to the Russian Orthodox church St George's BEAUTIFUL.. I have photos. will do a post on that entire experience..
in Toronto. Her mother's father.. or grandfather (she only spoke Russian.. Iryna her mom.. was a famous Russian artist whose works are in Moscow. )
One of the ICONs I own.. she painted for me on Wood. I have posted it before. right now I need to focus on real life. :) I spoke w/ Vera this morning.. her memory is not great now. so I book marked her grandfather and great grandfather's name which are RUSSIAN and since you speak Russian you know how their naming system goes. I do too.. I only read a little German and speak it when forced too, it was my first language. FASCINATING. I will come back to your post. must work on taking care of stuff right here. :)
Well-written piece! I’m enjoyed to read it in Chisinau :)
Thank you great to hear
What struck me and kept ringing bells in my head was the idolisation of the Tsarism being built on the church.
Same pattern showing up everywhere 🥲💔
Yes indeed, it's a very smart system. Because people who want to be virtuous will feel virtuous by supporting the Tsar, the support they show to the Tsar is part of their own sense of moral worth.
thank you so much for this snippet floris! so many connections to how modern culture is shaping up to be now! so quickly are online subcultures and specifically political subcultures actively taking any new theory or idea they find as dogma or something irrefutable; and then a week later a new dogma takes its place. and that last idea of being able to love from a distance is so true! i felt like, especially as ive been reading some of the more pastoral and some of the more political, philosophical sections of anna karenina, I cant help but feel that tolstoy was also a bit of an idealist and a romaticizor at a few extents of the peasantry. but I'm still reading it, and i still cant say for sure. but this was so amazing to read, thank you again for sharing this floris!
Thank you so much for your comment, you make very interesting connections! I agree yes that certain online subcultures can experience the same detachment very much alike the one that the Russian intelligentsia experienced. Also although I haven’t read it, in my history book where I got most of this information(A People’s Tragedy) Levin is mentioned as a primary example of the romantic idealization of the peasantry, although nevertheless I think we can learn a lot from him
he is such a wonderfully idealistic man who i relate to way too much, so much that i didn’t even consider his idealism that daft until now! levin is for sure an idealist of the peasantry like the intelligentsia, but he is still my favorite! i hope you can get to read or listen to that book soon!
Such fun reading this, I agree just because there is a historical explanation for why certain characters are the way they are doesn’t take away their brilliance.
I want to read AK next summer when I finally finish high school
i hope the stars align to all this!
Super interesting and well written! Good luck with the following chapters. I am looking forward to them😃
Thank you very much, next chapter will be out in around two weeks!
I found the section on the Russian intelligentsia especially interesting. Being isolated from both the regime and the people they wanted to speak for seems to have made ideas easier to turn into absolutes rather than something tested against ordinary life.
Thank you for the comment, researching the Russian intelligentsia I found it fascinating as well and then to realise that there wasn't any intellectual movement that has had an impact as large as them. Eventually (in my next chapters) they will form a completely new unconventional archetype: The Terrorist Intellectual.
Another time I will post about my friend, Vera.. who is still alive and doing Ok. She is 100 percent Russian and has many stories to tell of her mother and father.. both of whom I knew and met.. RIP.. wonderful people. .fled to Canada during WW2. of White Russian background w. tragic stories.. I mean that. The Russians really know how suffer and survive. I took care of her mother for two weeks in 2010 (her nurse needed a day off).. and I went with her to the Russian Orthodox church St George's BEAUTIFUL.. I have photos. will do a post on that entire experience..
in Toronto. Her mother's father.. or grandfather (she only spoke Russian.. Iryna her mom.. was a famous Russian artist whose works are in Moscow. )
One of the ICONs I own.. she painted for me on Wood. I have posted it before. right now I need to focus on real life. :) I spoke w/ Vera this morning.. her memory is not great now. so I book marked her grandfather and great grandfather's name which are RUSSIAN and since you speak Russian you know how their naming system goes. I do too.. I only read a little German and speak it when forced too, it was my first language. FASCINATING. I will come back to your post. must work on taking care of stuff right here. :)