By Robert Collis
The reign of Peter the good (1672-1725) was once marked via an unheard of wave of reform in Russia. This e-book offers an leading edge reappraisal of the Petrine Age, within which hitherto missed elements of the tsar’s transformation of his nation are studied. extra in particular, the reforms enacted by means of the tsar are assessed in mild of the non secular suggestion of instauration – a trust within the recovery of Adamic wisdom within the final age – and a old and cultural research of the impression of Western esotericism on the Russian court docket. This e-book will entice students of Russian heritage and faith, in addition to being of wider curiosity to these learning Western esotericism in Early smooth and eighteenth-century Europe.
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S. Lavrov, Koldovstvo i religiia v Rossii 1700–1740 gg. (Moscow: Drevlekhranilishche, 2000); E. B. Smilianskaia, Volshebniki. Bogokhul’niki. Eretiki (Moscow: Indrik, 2003). 80 A second edition was published in 1947. See B. E. Raikov, Ocherki po istorii geliotsentricheskogo mirovozzreniia v Rossii. Iz proshlogo russkogo estestvoznaniia. 2nd edition (Moscow-Leningrad, 1947). 81 W. , Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1994), 149. Also see V. L. Rabinovich, Alkhimiia kak fenomen srednevekovoi kul’turi (Moscow: Nauka, 1979); V.
Thus, with this in mind, religion and esotericism become key components of the Petrine reform programme, rather than simply being perceived as relics of a bygone era rigourously discarded by Peter the Great. Hence, it is extremely useful to undertake a study of Peter the Great and a number of his closest foreign advisers and offfijicials in light of notions of Christian-scientifijic renewal, which bear distinct similarities to the religious and intellectual spirit of Kuhlmann. These plans not only encompassed Christian belief, but also drew on Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and other esoteric pursuits, including most notably alchemy and astrology.
Iz proshlogo russkogo estestvoznaniia. 2nd edition (Moscow-Leningrad, 1947). 81 W. , Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1994), 149. Also see V. L. Rabinovich, Alkhimiia kak fenomen srednevekovoi kul’turi (Moscow: Nauka, 1979); V. L. Rabinovich, Obraz mira v zerkale alkhimii (Moscow: Nauka, 1981). 82 See T. Rainov, Nauka v Rossii XI–XVII vekov: ocherky po istorii do nauchnykh i estestvenno-nauchnykh vozzrenii na prirodu (Moscow-Leningrad, Nauka, 1940).
