A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov /

The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment shows peculiar features, which prevent the application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought...

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Main Author: Faggionato, Raffaella (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas, 190
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Freemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg
  • Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N. I. Novikov’s Circle
  • Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West
  • The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar.