Русский эзотеризм в исследованиях Гданьской Лаборатории недогматической духовности
Russian esotericism in the research conducted by the laboratory of non–dogmatic spirituality

Summary/Abstract: Traditions of esotericism determine the scope of research conducted by The Laboratory of Non-Dogmatic Spirituality. In the 1990s, academics from The Institute of Eastern-Slavic Philology founded a research laboratory at the Faculty of Languages at the University of Gdańsk. Soon academics from other centers joined in. Nowadays, the group comprises scholars from Polish universities, as well as from Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Sweden and Germany. Among the most interesting projects carried out by the Laboratory, one can find the research connected with a unique archive that was presented to the Department of Manuscripts at Gorky World Literature Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow). The collection, which was handed over in 2014, had been compiled by late Ludvig Aleksandrovich Novikov (1933–2005), a physicist, scientist, academic by profession, but an archivist and a culture researcher by avocation. The collection includes valuable documents concerned with the history of anthroposophy, one of the initiation schools mentioned above, which was extremely popular in Russia, especially with representatives of the art world.

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