O. A. Zhukova Participated in the Claudia Pieralli Memorial Conference

On May 28-29, 2024, the University of Florence hosted the conference Letteratura, Dissenso, Emigrazione: in ricordo di Claudia Pieralli

Olga A. Zhukova, a chief research fellow of the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, delivered a memorial speech dedicated to Professor Claudia Pieralli, who collaborated with the Faculty of Humanities of the Higher School of Economics, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and also gave lectures at seminars of our laboratory (November 14, 2019 and November 29, 2019).

O. A. Zhukova also made a report on the topic 'Historian, Philosopher, Emigrant, Political Prisoner: the Fate of L. P. Karsavin in the Fate of Russia.'
The abstract of the report is below.
The outstanding Russian philosopher Lev Platonovich Karsavin is the rightful heir to the religious metaphysics of the unity of V. S. Solovyov. Being internally connected Karsavin's works demonstrate the logic of the development of the central ideas of his religious metaphysical system. This circumstance prompts us to pay attention to Karsavin's intellectual biography, to the fact that the thinker decided his creative fate by redirecting the professional interests of the historian-medievalist to the field of philosophy. Karsavin's academic career at the university was successfull. A fateful turning point for Karsavin occurred in 1922. On November 16, the Bolshevik government sent him to Germany on the second philosophers' steamer. In exile, Karsavin developed the theme of philosophy of history in a metaphysical perspective. Having assumed the role of the ideologist of the Eurasian movement, he distanced himself from the religious and philosophical community of Russian emigration. Karsavin left France and moved to Lithuania (1928). A constant feeling of longing for Russia prompted him to decide to stay in Lithuania after it became part of the Soviet Union after World War II. This choice, deeply justified for the philosopher himself, led Karsavin to a tragic end. Karsavin's attempts to integrate into Soviet society failed. The thinker was sent to a disabled camp in the Komi Autonomous Republic, where he died in 1952. Karsavin's thought is religious, Christian. This gives me reason to assert that Karsavin himself would have seen a deep providential meaning in the dramatic turns of his fate.

Schedule of the conference