By Josephine von Zitzewitz

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, assembly in Leningrad among 1974-1980, was once an underground research team the place younger intellectuals staged debates, learn poetry and circulated their very own typewritten magazine, referred to as ‘37’. the crowd and its magazine provided a platform to poets who thus entered the canon of Russian verse, comparable to Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010).



Josephine von Zitzewitz’s new examine specializes in the Seminar’s identity of tradition and spirituality, which allowed Leningrad’s unofficial tradition to faucet into the spirit of Russian modernism, as may be noticeable in ‘37’. This booklet is therefore a examine of an important present in twentieth-century Russian poetry, and an enquiry into the intersection among literary and religious matters. however it additionally provides case reports of 5 poets from a different iteration: not just Krivulin and Shvarts, but in addition Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) and Aleksandr Mironov (1948-2010).

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