VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV

Vladimir Solovyov's commemorated in Moscow Literature Museum

2001, June 7, in Moscow Literature Museum a meeting was held dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Solovyov. Two panelists: Aleksey Kozyryov (Moscow State University) and Alexander Nosov, presented the 3 volume of the new (complete) collection of Solovyov's works and told a lot of interesting about new facts and ideas about Solovyov. I was specially impressed by the fact that Pobedonostzev used obsessive words in private letter concerning Solovyov. Nosov supposed that special resentment which Solovyov demonstrated to Pobedonostzev all his life was rooted in the desire of young Solovyov to become a sort of Russia's main prophet, whose ideas serve as guidelines to the Tsar. Pobedonostzev had been chosen instead; what a substitution! Still, from the Russian Orthodox point of view Solovyov's luck that he was rejected by the court. I wonder whether in Russia a man closely connected with the power (like minister Goethe) can be a philosopher.

Berdyaev: CONCERNING EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY UTOPIANISM (As Regards the Book of Prince Evgenii Trubetskoy “The World-Concept of Vl. Solov’ev”), 1913

Berdayev's article, 1911

De Courten on Solovyov's archives in Moscow, 1998.

New books on Vl. Solovyov:

Sutton, Jonathon. "Christian Philosopher and Ecumenist: Vladimir Solovyov, 1853-1900," The Month CCLXI, no. 1595, Second New Series 33, no. 11 (November 2000): 436-39. The Month is a London publication of the British Jesuits. This article appeared in Russian in Russkaia mysl' (Paris/Moscow, 29 June 2000).

Sutton, Jonathon. "Vladimir Solovyov, Moral Philosophy and 'Sound Politics'," Studies in East European Thought 52, no. (2000): 1-18.

Davidson, Pamela. "Vladimir Solov'ev and the Ideal of Prophecy," Slavonic and East European Review 78, no. 4 (October 2000): 643-70. This is the English version of a paper that Prof. Davidson gave in Russian in St. Petersburg at the conference "Vladimir Solov'ev and Jewish Culture" which took place 18-19 May 1999.