17-18th MAY 2024 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
AFTER NAPOLEON: INTELLECTUAL DISPUTES ABOUT RUSSIA AND EUROPE

The organizers of the conference propose to discuss an urgent topic that highlights the phenomenon of 'the beginning of the century' recurring for the third century (the big war with consequences), which brings change in the general order of the world on the European continent.
In 1815 the Congress of Vienna renewed Europe after Napoleon and formed the military-political 'Holy Alliance' of Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and other European monarchies. The Russian Empire entered Europe as the winner, playing the 'first violin' in the 'orchestra' of European politics. The idea of a union based on Christian principles of peace belonged to Alexander I. However, the political contacts of the allied monarchies could not slow down the development of bourgeois Europe. After Napoleon, there spread liberal ideas, as did the struggle for nation-states, which however gained the status of a political force later.
The beginning of the century marked Russia's participation in the coalition campaigns against Napoleon and M. M. Speransky's proposals of state reforms. Those reforms changed of the legislative and executive branches of the Senate and transformed the management of the Synod. There was created a three-stage system of spiritual education. They founded Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, adopted the University Charter, expanded the ruling class and carried out other reforms. The transformations revived the human freedom discussion. The most important event in the intellectual life of Russia was the works of N. M. Karamzin, who began with the creation of the journal 'Vestnik Evropy' in 1802, and discovered Russia 'like Columbus America' for everyone who could read his 'History of the Russian State'.
The gradual nature of the reforms was unpredictable in its consequences. In the 1820s, secret societies of the nobility grew stronger, both in the capital and in the south of the empire, with a variety of ideas for seizing power and transforming the state. European examples worked: General Riego in the revolutionary events in Spain; Italian carbonari, etc. The consequences of the December mutiny on Senate Square in 1825 and the execution of five Decembrists became for many years an internal source of disputes among intellectuals and the reactionary nature of the Nikolay I regime.
Another consequence of the Napoleonic Wars was the Polish Uprising of 1830-31 in Russia, its resonance both outside, in Europe, and inside ('To the Slanderers of Russia' by Pushkin). In 1836, the poet responded to the publication of the sharply critical 'Philosophical Letter' by P. Ya. Chaadaev in the 'Telescope' with a personal letter about the historical significance of Russia in the destinies of Europe.
By the 40s, Russian intellectuals were rigidly divided into parties of the Slavophiles and the Westernizers, assessing Russia in historical, cultural and social contexts, thereby avoiding discussion of political reforms in the empire of the Nicholas era. Intellectual thought developed in jounals, salons and circles. In 1849, participants in meetings with M. V. Butashevich-Petrashevsky, who studied Fourier, Saint-Simon, were sentenced to death. Among them was F. M. Dostoevsky. On the scaffold, the death penalty was replaced by hard labor. The political critic of the empire was the Marquis A. de Custine in the book 'La Russie en 1839', read by Russian intellectuals in French. The era ended with the Crimean War.
 

Schedule_in Russian (PDF, 874 Kb).

Video Day 1 (part I, part II), Video Day 2. 

8-9th DECEMBER 2023 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
EPISTOLARY HERITAGE AS A PHENOMENON OF INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN ENLIGHTMENT

For discussion there was proposed the topic of epistolary heritage as a communicative intellectual phenomenon, which promoted many innovations in the culture of the Russian Empire. The epistolary heritage of the Peter the Great era set the tone for this phenomenon. Empress Catherine II was called the true epistolary genius of that century. Her correspondence with European courts and intellectuals, as well as with her close subjects (e.g., with Count N. I. Panin, a statesman, diplomat, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences) not only expanded the subject of the epistolary of the empire's ruling elites, but under her pen made it both an intellectual and a literary phenomenon, which naturally was included in the development of journalistic and literary activities in Russia of the 2nd half of the XVIII century. The Empress, of course, became a participant in this process both in positive and quite overbearing censorship and punitive reactions. The literary issues in the letters of the Enlightenment age got their space in the personal and business correspondence of writers, rich in events, ideas, and projects. Thus, the publisher of the letters by V. K. Trediakovsky, G. R. Derzhavin, D. I. Fonvizin, N. I. Novikov, Ya. B. Knyazhnina, A. N. Radishchev defined the content of the letters by A. P. Sumarokov, as the "chronicle of theaters" of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and called them "literary and theatrical encyclopedia". It contained information about actors, prompters and "caretakers" (spectators); the role of the playwright in the preparation of the play and the censorship of his plays by the Academy and the Empress and other plots. 
It is important to mention travelogues of the XVIII century. – a literary and intellectual genre new to the Russian culture of that time. Traveler's Letters by N. M. Karamzin became a worthy completion of the development of the epistolary genre of the XVIII century.

The conference was attended by historians, philosophers, literary critics and philologists from Russia and other countries.

Schedule (in Russian), Video Day 1, Video Day 2.

26-27th MAY 2023 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
XVIII CENTURY RUSSIA AND EUROPE IN THE GENERAL WORLD ORDER

The organizers of the conference proposed an acute topic that has an actual political sound up to the present time. In the first "Philosophical Letter" P. Ya. Chaadaev, the author of "general world order" concept, wrote in French what people made up Russia were like, and "quelle est la place que nous occupons dans l'ordre général".
Addressing this topic is an intellectual task that involves, on the one hand, clarifying the content of the concept of the "general order of the world", as well as its significance from the time of modernity to the modern global world order. On the other hand, it is important to understand the significant transformations both in society and in the culture of the XVIII century.

XVIII century — the beginning of imperial Russia. We remember that the European XVIII century represented the coexistence and struggle for the priorities of five empires – the British, Ottoman, Habsburg, Spanish and Portuguese empires. Russia, through the efforts of Peter the Great, became a huge state and entered the European space as an empire "under the roar of cannons and the noise of ships under construction" (A. S. Pushkin). As Tyutchev later wrote, the empire of Peter the Great came to meet the empire of Charlemagne, but the historical distance of this meeting for almost a millennium determined many problems of the young imperial state. And yet, towards the end of the XVIII century, Catherine II allowed herself to say: "Russia is a European empire...".

Peter I's victory over Sweden in the Northern War (1721) marked the beginning of Russia's further participation in various military actions of the unions of European states. And not only the actual military actions. Diplomacy ensured Russia's state interests in European politics, international agreements and alliances. Peter the Great also initiated reforms in the field of diplomacy, as well as in other areas of government and society. The natural question was if Russia had managed to enter the existing contradictory space of rival European states during the XVIII century and how Russia had been perceived in European ruling circles and society? Catherine II, streamlining the achievements of Peter the Great, structured not only the state, but also the social structure of the Russian Empire. Continuing to participate in military campaigns (with Turkey, Sweden, participating in the three partitions of Poland, etc.), Catherine founded new cities of Novorossiya and Crimea, whose seaports became a support for the expanding trade routes for the southern regions of the empire. But trade without its own production could not create a strong independent state. Catherine carried out two stages of management reform of metallurgical and industrial centers (1763-1783), changing the composition of the Berg Board, then distributing its functions to state chambers and creating an Expedition for Mining (1783) in the capital and factories. Russia traded not only grain and hemp for the British navy, but also iron.

Finally, two estates of the Russian Empire from Peter to Catherine received new duties and rights in the state order of the country: peasants — duties on the land, belonging to the landowner and the complete absence of personal rights; nobles — according to the "Letter of Commendation ..." of Catherine II, the right to complete freedom from the duties of carrying out all public services. It created an obvious brake on urban industrial Russia, where state peasants did not become a resource for the development of private property. However, the freedom of the nobility created opportunities for secular forms of leisure and the gradually emerging public intellectual space of the metropolitan and local nobility. Peter I's educational reforms and the creation of the Academy of Sciences determined the evolution of sciences and arts in Russia from the sphere of state control under Peter and Elizabeth (education in Europe, export of European intellectuals, opening of Moscow University, etc.) to the creation of the Enlightenment era by Catherine with her personal participation, as well as with the creators of her own socio-political magazines, private travel to Europe, communication with European intellectuals, the appearance of St. Petersburg secular salons, philosophizing Russian nobles, etc.

The breakthrough of Russia in the XVIII century to secular intellectual and artistic culture was undoubtedly impressive. Did the Europeans believe that such a large country was capable of independently creating cultural values in the  Russian language, if only at the beginning of the century Peter I introduced the civil alphabet, abolishing the linguistic situation of the diglossia of the Church Slavonic and Russian spoken languages, thereby dividing spiritual and secular education and opening an "intellectual window" to Europe?

Schedule (in Russian), Video Day 2.

13-14th MAY 2022 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
THE RISE AND FALL OF PETRINE-PUSHKIN'S RUSSIA: FROM THE SILVER AGE TO PROLETCULT
The organizers of the conference proposed for discussion a problem that has not lost its significance even today. The deeds of Peter the Great glorified by A. S. Pushkin in the year of the 350th anniversary of his birth became an intellectual reason for comprehending reformism in the processes of cultural identification of the Russian state and choosing the trajectory for the development of Russian culture. For world cultural history, 350 years is a short time. However, for Russia this period was a time of great speed. The legacy of Peter was realized: a powerful start, the development of culture in the century of Catherine II, its heyday in the 19th century, the decadence of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. This development, which included Russia in the general movement of European culture, was stopped and destroyed in 1917. The power of the Bolsheviks, completely destroying the 'old world', which was barely 200 years old, faced the question of 'socialist' cultural construction. The first proposed project of Proletkult (A. A. Bogdanov and others) did not find the support of the leader of the revolution.
Has the 'Petrine turn' remained in the cultural memory of the country? Academic discussions do not exhaust the answer; what is important is reflection on the comprehension and retention of historical experience. In this context, it is understandable to address such issues as: attitude to heritage and the phenomenon of violence; understanding of connections and gaps in cultural traditions and innovations; identifying grounds for creating a different education system; awareness of the cultural identification of the new state system and the definition of social guarantees for the artistic and intellectual activity of a person.
Schedule (in Russian), Video Day 1, Video Day 2.

14-15 OCTOBER 2022 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
THE USSR AND EUROPE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CONFLICTS: IDEOLOGICAL CONFRONTATIONS (1922-1991)

The organizers of the conference proposed to discuss a problem that is directly related to the current situation in which Russia and Europe are found nowadays. World conflicts — wars, revolutions, breaks in political and economic ties between countries, etc. — are directly related to the embodiment in ideological forms of ideas that define relations between countries, their political systems and economic interests. The conference was devoted to ideological confrontations in the European events of the period of the formation and existence of the USSR, as well as understanding the completion of its history.

After the First World War and the collapse of three empires, eight new states emerged in Europe; the creation of the Turkish Republic changed the status of five more states in the European Southeast. At the end of 1922, the USSR appeared on the world map — the successor of the Russian Empire, but an absolutely new state in its political and legal foundations. Old Europe turned out to be a field of intersection of various ideas and the search for new ways to implement them: the preservation and growth of capital, parliamentarism and colonial policy (Great Britain, France); social-democratic, which caused revolutionary movements in Germany in 1918-1919 (the Bremen Soviet and Bavarian Soviet Republics); bourgeois-democratic (the Weimar Republic) and conservative, evolving into totalitarianism and national Socialism (Italy under Mussolini; Hitler's rise to power). The Soviet state, with its ideas of world socialism and internationalism, became the embodiment of danger for Europe, especially during the period of Stalin's totalitarian regime. However, the successes of Soviet industrialization were the subject of European interest and even admiration, especially during the global economic crisis of the late 20s - the beginning. The 30s. In the first period of contacts between Europe and the USSR, the ideology of "Sovietophobia" was peculiarly combined with the opposite of another — "Sovietophilia".

The historical origins of "Sovietophobia" (over time, anti—Sovietism) - Russophobia, fear and contempt of Europeans for Russia, arose in the XVI-XVII centuries, when the first detailed description appeared there, in which the Moscow state was defined as the kingdom of unfreedom, slavery, ignorance and "wrong faith" ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs" by S. Herberstein, 1559). Large territories with such content inspired Europe with danger. However, already under Alexei Mikhailovich, then from the reforms of Peter I to Catherine II, Russia opened itself and opened itself to Europe as a "European power" among other states of the European world. The victory over Napoleon by Alexander I led to the creation of the "Holy Alliance", which as a result created the "gendarme of Europe" from Nikolayev Russia. At the same time, the country achieved an understanding of its own freedom by creating Russian classical literature, not thanks to, but rather in spite of state power.

The World War generated and expanded fear like no other event. In Russia, which ended the First World Revolution in October 1917, the slogans of which were "power to the people, factories to workers, land to peasants", freedom had new restrictions — "for the poor against the rich", which determined the "class character" of the Soviet state, introduced the country into Civil war, devastation, famine and loss of cultural traditions. About 5 million. left Russia to save their lives. In the period between the wars of the twentieth century, Russian emigration did not accept "Russophobia" and did not equate the Soviets and Russia. Western "Sovietophobia", first of all, opposed the ideas of anti-capitalism, class restriction in the understanding of freedom, defended the principles of bourgeois democracy, increasing the degree of anti-Sovietism. The political and ideological confrontation in Europe itself used anti-Sovietism, which contributed to the expansion of totalitarian regimes, the spread of ideas of anti-Communism, anti-Semitism, nationalism and led to the outbreak of World War II.

The victory of the USSR in World War II is currently being hushed up in every possible way by the allies (the United States and Great Britain). This line of thought was laid down by the Fulton speech of W. Churchill, as an anti-Soviet project, and led to the Cold War in post-war Europe and around the world, led by the United States. The USSR was destroyed. The victory in the Cold War remained with the West. The assessment, causes and understanding of this process, especially if we keep in mind the current state of Russia's relations with the world, are subject to reflection.

Schedule (in Russian), Video Day 1 (Part 1, Part 2); Video Day 2.

16-17, 23th APRIL 2021 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND EUROPEAN CULTURE. TO THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN WRITER
The organizers of the conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), proposed to discuss the problem that is obviously topical even today. For a hundred years of active and, as a rule, enthusiastic attitude to the work of the great Russian writer, both the European intellectual elite and readers of his works, viewers of theatrical performances and films based on his novels have always given a variety of interpretations of his work. The name of Dostoevsky has been associated with some mythologems, some ideologems of Russian life, and there are enough reasons for this in his texts. Numerous variants of academic literary interpretations were developed; the reception of ideas and images of Russian writers entered the European literature of the twentieth century. Through Dostoevsky, people learned about Russia and Russian philosophers such as Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov and others who discovered their great compatriot to the world.
By proposing to comprehend the ideas, interpretations, understanding or misunderstanding of the writer's ideas in the ongoing Russian-European literary, ideological, and philosophical dialogue with Dostoevsky and his works, which have preserved the writer's feelings and hopes for the Christian future of the cultures of Russia and Europe, the organizers hope that the designated range of topics will be of interest to both Russian and foreign colleagues.
Schedule (in Russian), Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4, Video Part 5, Video Part 6.

12th, 19-20th NOVEMBER 2021 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University 'Higher School of Economics' in cooperation with the Center for Central and Eastern Europe of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Dresden University of Technology
RUSSIAN-GERMAN FORUM From the Enlightenment project to the Modernity project: Russian-German intellectual dialogue
For the first time, Russian and German universities are holding a scientific forum as a dialogue on a topical issue for the humanities, related to a common research interest: the transformation of the Enlightenment project into the Modernity project from the end of the 18th century until the beginning of the 20th century.
A special place in this project is occupied by the figure of the writer and thinker Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose 200th birthday is celebrated in 2021. Meetings at Dresden University are devoted to his work. Another equally significant figure is Friedrich Nietzsche, whose ideas will be discussed at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, including in connection with Dostoevsky's texts. The scale of the topic determines the appeal to other names of intellectuals, both in Germany and Russia, who developed and carried out educational tasks in their countries, later abandoned them, created new intellectual spaces, dressing their creativity in modern forms. Equally important for the discussion of the problem is the context of general ideas, institutions and significant events in which the main ideas of the enlighteners and their critics found their place. We hope that this experience of mutual dialogue will give a new impetus to the development of cooperation between Russian and German humanitarians in the near future.
Dr., Prof. Holger Kusse, 
Dr., Prof. Vladimir Kantor
Schedule, Nov. 12.
Schedule, Nov. 19-20.

15-23th MAY 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
RUSSIAN EXILED INTELLECTUALS IN 1919-1945: PRAGUE, SOFIA, BELGRADE
The exiled scientists, writers, philosophers, artists, and journalists who fled from destroyed Russia were aware of what Bunin described as the mission of the Russian emigration. Although, of course, it is difficult to call this event emigration, the meaning of Bunin's word "mission" is accurate.
The conference is dedicated to the discussion of the dialogue between Russian exiles and intellectuals of the European Slavic world that took place after the First World War. The chosen locus of the three capitals is symbolic and partly explained by the trajectory of Russian refugees in the Slavic world, but does not at all rule out the importance of contacts being made in other cities of Europe. The problem of understanding the mission of the Russian exiles is proposed to be considered in the questions that they themselves raised:

• What to do? Consideration by Russian emigrants of the problems of preserving the intellectual heritage of Russian culture in the conditions of forced emigration;
• Who is guilty? Emigration's understanding of the causes of the catastrophe in Russia;
• How to pass the experience? Russian catastrophe as a warning to all of Europe;
• Can Christianity be an antithesis to totalitarianism? Christianity in the Slavic world and the experience of Russian emigration;
• Is the Slavic world real? Self-determination of Russian exiles and their identification in Western Europe as Displaced Persons (DP).

Many aspects of the issues discussed by Russian emigrants are still relevant today in the intellectual dialogue between Russia and Europe.

Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3.

25-26th SEPTEMBER 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
SLAVISM AS A PROBLEM IN THE TEXTS OF SLAVIC AND RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS OF THE 17th-20th CENTURIES
Culture begins with the birth of mythology, and Slavic mythology, as in other cultures, formed the basis of great literature. And here the internal relationship is obvious. It is known that Hoffman relied on Polish mythology, as well as Mickiewicz, and Gogol. Zhukovsky and Pushkin literally bathed in the mythological stories of the Slavs. And finally, the most powerful intellectual movement of the nineteenth century in Eastern Europe – Slavophilism – had its roots in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Serbia. There was a self-affirmation of Slavic Europe. Today, Western researchers see its creation as a result of Western efforts. Recall the book by the American Larry Wolff "Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment" (1994), which proclaims the need to civilize the semi-wild population of these territories. The Slavs' own initiative is not taken into account. Awareness of this initiative is one of the goals of this conference.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3.

25-26th APRIL 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AS BASIS OF RUSSIA'S BEING (from the Peter-Pushkin era and further)
Offering for reflection the theme “Russian as the basis of being in Russia”, the organizers see several problems that have not only scientific but also pragmatic significance. Russian, like any other language, is a living phenomenon: it has a time of birth, it is developing in all sorts of connections and relations of society, culture, and history, but it can die under certain social conditions. In order for the Russian language not to become “dead”, and with it Russian culture, we believe it is necessary to constantly reflect cultural, historical, socio-philosophical, sociolinguistic and other knowledge about the Russian language.
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4, Video Part 5.

20th SEPTEMBER 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508
CHADAEV AND THE ORIGIN OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2.

18th OCTOBER 2019 
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508
RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY IN THE POSTSECULAR AGE 
International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue and Master's Programme "Philosophical Anthropology"
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the religious life of Russian society received a new impetus. In the Soviet Union belonging to the Church had a form of dissidence, in the 90s such a necessity disappeared. The task of social and institutional posing of the Church in public life has become relevant again. Russian society got over a unique experience of secularization, and the Church was forced to look for a way of its survival. The problem of post-secular society, in which again, after a long process of secularization, the religious factor begins to play an increasingly important role, is relevant both for the whole world, faced with the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, and for Russia, where relations between secular and religious become more and more ambiguous. One hundred years ago, Russian religious philosophy tried to find a middle way for the development of society, to become a synthesis between two principles, keeping society from the temptations of fundamentalism. The discussion at the event is planned to be built around the question: Can Russian philosophy complete this task today and become the tool that would make it possible to comprehend the changes taking place?Schedule (in Russian), Announcement, Video Part 1,Video Part 2, Video Part 3.

21-22th NOVEMBER 2019 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 9-11 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 508
MEMORY AS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENON - RUSSIA AND THE WEST: 20 AND 21 CENTURIES
In the past two decades, such concepts as «historical memory», «culture of memory», «culture of history», «memory and commemoration practices» are included into the popular topics of the interdisciplinary research. The interest in memorial researches and commemorative practices is very wide. The appearance of public history was directly related to the cultural processes of the second half of the 20th century and with the revival of interest in the historical memory. Under the name of Public history, there is a wide range of new knowledge or new interpretations of documents and artifacts that occur beyond the boundaries of academic history. Journalists, politicians, media commentators, film directors, artists, bloggers have access to the past and often interpret it in the unusual and original form. The main idea of the conference is to show how people perceive the past in Europe and in Russia, what is the difference, how national aspects could influence our perception of history, and how to avoid the ideologization of history, or it is impossible, and why?

Schedule (in Russian), Affiliation List, Announcement

27-28^th APRIL 2018 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University Higher School of Economics
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
THREE CENTURIES OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: BECOMING OF RUSSIAN EUROPEANISM
(from reforms of Peter the Great to neo-religious Renaissance of the XX century)

Schedule, News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3,  Video Part 4 ,  Video Part 5.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
DE PROFUNDIS, OR REQUIEM FOR PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
Russian religious thought of the first third of the twentieth century still amazes us with collections of thoughtful texts. The best - "Vehi" and "Iz Glubiny." The idea of creating the collection was proposed by P. Struve in 1918. S. Frank's essay 'De profundis" filled this idea with philosophical pathos. Europeans got acquainted with the collection only in 1921.
Schedule , News, Video Part 1,  Video Part 2  ,  Documentary film dedicated to the centenary of "Iz glubiny".

NOVEMBER 22-23, 2018
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
DOWNFALL OF THE EMPIRES, 1918
The projectdeals with substantial and currently insufficiently developed theme of the collapse of European empires after the First World War and the formation of new sociocultural and political components of Europe’s existence. An important aspect is an interdisciplinary analysis of the causes and consequences of the death of the largest empires at the beginning of the 20th century. At the conference, not only historians but also philosophers, sociologists, literary critics and art historians will present their research results. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the thesis that the collapse of empires is a natural process that took place more than once in history, starting with Alexander the Great.
Program Committee,  Organizing Committee,   Schedule ,  Video Part 1,  Video Part 2 ,  Video Part 3, Video Part 4.

APRIL 27-28, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 
National Research University "Higher School of Economics" 3 Krivokolenny Side Street, Room K-327
RUSSIA A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1917: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
The conference was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the most important socio-political event - the Russian Revolution of 1917, which has changed the course of Russian and world history. The leading Russian and European philosophers, historians, sociologists and jurists took part in the conference. The spiritual and cultural and socio-political causes of the emergence of the revolutionary situation in Russia, as well as its historical and civilizational consequences for the fate of Russia, Europe and the world were discussed.
Schedule, Announcement,  News   Video April 27th Part 1, Video April 27th Part 2,  Video April 27th Part 3 ,   Video April 27th Part 4, Video April 28th Part 1,  Video April 28th Part 2 ,  Video April 28th Part 3, Video April 28th Part 4.

SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
F. A. STEPUN: RUSSIAN THINKER BETWEEN TWO REVOLUTIONS
The conference was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which was a turning point and a landmark event not only for life, but also for all the subsequent creative work of F.A. Stepun. It is his works that contain the first sensible attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of the Russian Revolution, which seemed unprecedented in its destructiveness for its contemporaries.
Schedule, News, Video Part 1,  Video Part 2 ,  Video Part 3, Video Part 4.

NOVEMBER 23-24, 2017
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 11 Myasnitskaya Str., Room 508
S. L. FRANK: POSTREVOLUTIONARY DOWNFALL OF IDOLS
The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the most important political event of the twentieth century - the Russian Revolution. Leading scientists from Russia, Italy, Germany, Ukraine and the UK will talk about the work of an outstanding Russian thinker (a real witness to the events of 1917), dedicated to the reception and analysis of the revolution. Schedule,  Announcement ,  News, Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4.