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Vladimir Solovyov and Anna Schmidt · Владимир Соловьев и Анна Шмидт

Sergei Bulgakov

Translated by S. Alexander Laurent

Bulgakov’s essay of 1915 on Solovyov’s mystical poetry, his encounters with Sophia, and Anna Schmidt, the Nizhny Novgorod journalist who believed she had lived the same visions and corresponded with him about them. With its second part, missing from the digital text, restored from the 1918 printing. In Russian beside a new English translation.

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  • Russian: С. Н. Булгаков, «Владимир Соловьев и Анна Шмидт», in Тихие думы. Из статей 1911–1915 гг. (Moscow, 1918); digital text from az.lib.ru (after Третий Завет, St Petersburg, 1993), with Section II, missing there, restored from the 1918 facsimile, pp. 76–81.
  • English: Laurentium Cultural Industries, complete bilingual annotated working translation. The translator’s commentary stays in the master and is not shown here.

Contents · 12

  1. 1I. The Poems of Vladimir Solovyov
  2. 2II. “From the Manuscripts of Anna Nikolaevna Schmidt”
  3. 3III. Towards the Problem · 1 of 9
  4. 4III. Towards the Problem · 2 of 9
  5. 5III. Towards the Problem · 3 of 9
  6. 6III. Towards the Problem · 4 of 9
  7. 7III. Towards the Problem · 5 of 9
  8. 8III. Towards the Problem · 6 of 9
  9. 9III. Towards the Problem · 7 of 9
  10. 10III. Towards the Problem · 8 of 9
  11. 11III. Towards the Problem · 9 of 9
  12. 12Bulgakov’s notes