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This paper analyses the way two intellectuals, Nikolai Berdyaev and Pierre Pascal met and lived a friendship relation. They first met in April 2nd 1918, the Russian thinker Berdyaev invited Pascal at his home, during one of those traditional Tuesday evenings that he used to organize. Before Berdyaev’s exile from Russia, they met each other again only once, in January 8th 1920, Pascal left a detailed account of this in his diary. This report from Pascal nevertheless is different compared to the article “Evening at the counterrevolutionaries” written by propagandist Pascal for the Western for propaganda booklet called “In Red Russia”. Later, they saw each other and were welcomed again in France, when in March 1933 Pascal returned from Russia with his wife. As Lidia Berdyaev’s memoirs and testimonials attest, the couple became accustomed to Berdyaev’s Sundays in Clamart. Nevertheless, after 1938 they relationship declined. Pascal who knew the Soviet reality from before leaving the USSR could not accept Berdyaev’s fanatical patriotism and naive pro-Soviet ideas. Despite of this, Pascal did not exclude Berdyaev’s philosophical work of his scientific interests. The paper presents how the French appreciated at its true value, the various works of the Russian thinker. Pascal’s memoirs “My Russian newspaper”, Pascal’s work on the Berdyaev and those published in French mentioning him; Pascal’s personal documents or correspondence preserved at the French archives are the basis of this article. All these materials, translated for the first time in Russian, make an addition to Berdyaev information fund at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts.
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The study is based on data derived during the of questioning the ordinary members of modern pagan communities. From 17 to June 23, 2014 members of the research laboratory «New religious movements in modern Russia and Europe,» Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University Kozma Minin conducted a survey with the the ordinary members of modern pagan communities who gathered to celebrate Ivan Kupala festival. This article shows the results of the «factual» questionnaire block. The purpose of block was, first, to determine the status of the community attending the Ivan Kupala celebration, and secondly, to determine the religious views of representatives of paganism the 21th century. The article also discusses the data from the «institutional» block. The main objectives of the research question block N 2 is to identify functional as the pagan community as a whole, and individual community leaders in particular. A special place «of institutional» block is the question of the prospects and forms of interaction of modern pagans with the state institutions. Based on these data, the authors analyze the religious and organizational identity neo-pagans, perspectives and forms of interaction «Rodnovers» with state institutions, considered a functional way of the pagan leaders.
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Publication of the historical sources.
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