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Solovyov's memoir of his sexual (and mystical) awakening, supplemented by selected letters to his first love Ekaterina Romanova. Together these texts provide an eloquent introduction to Solovyov's erotic philosophy. ... Read more

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Solovyev On Love--Sort Of...
This story, roughly contemporaneous with "Three Meetings," the last, and longest of Solovyev's "Sophia" poems, is a sort of prose Fourth Meeting. Ostensibly a typical late 19th Century tale of an encounter between a young man and a lady travelling unaccompanied on a train, it is, ofcourse, so much more. Solovyev's mystically-oriented vision of everyday life is the sort of thing that will either appeal to readers or leave them cold.
The story is accompanied by a selection of letters from Solovyev to his cousin Ekaterina Romanova. ... Read more

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256 pages. Part 1 or Volume 1 only. This book has the following chapters: Solovyov's Origins and family, Childhood and School Years, University, The Religious Academy, First Travel Abroad, The Philosophical principles of Integral Knowledge, Doctoral Defense(the lecture against capital punishment. ... Read more