Issue #89 Art as the Overcoming of Death: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s

Art as the Overcoming of Death: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s

Anastasia Gacheva

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Universal booth for transportation (1928) by Georgi Tichonowitsch Krutikow. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow. Image from the book „Architektur für die russische Raumfahrt,” (DOM Publishers, 2013). Copyright: Philipp Meuser

Issue #89
March 2018










Notes
1

N. F. Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), vol. 4, t.T.2 (M., 1995), 243.

2

Ibid., 136.

3

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), vol. 4, t.T.1 (M., 1995), 390.

4

Ibid., 136.

5

P. A. Florensky, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 4, t. T. 3(1) (M., 2000), 440.

6

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), vol. 4, t.T.1 (M., 1995), 401.

7

V. S. Solovyov, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 2, t.T.2 (M., 1988), 358 and others.

8

S. N. Bulgakov, Svet nevecherny: Sozertsanya i umozrenya (The light of the unknown: Contemplation and speculation) (M., 1994), 219.

9

S. N. Bulgakov, Filosofya hoziaistva; Bulgakov, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 2, t.T.1 (M., 1993), 158.

10

Bulgakov, Svet nevecherny (The light of the unknown), 306.

11

N. A. Umov, Evolutsya fizicheskih nauk i ee ideinoe znachenye (The evolution of the physical sciences and their ideological significance); Umov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), T.3. (M., 1916), 517.

12

Solovyov, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 2, t.T.2, 398.

13

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), vol. 4, t.T.1, 159.

14

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), vol. 4, t.T.1 (M., 1995), 401, 297.

15

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), T.2, 249.

16

Ibid., 116.

17

Ibid., 229.

18

Ibid.

19

V. N. Chekrygin to N. N. Punin, February 7, 1922; Sovetskoe iskusstvoznanie (Soviet art studies), 1976, vol. 2, 330.

20

Ibid.

21

A. K. Gorsky, “Ogromnyi ocherk” (An enormous sketch); Gorsky and N. A. Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works) (M., 1995), 242.

22

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), T.2, 202.

23

Ibid., 404.

24

Fedorov, Sobranie sochineny (Collected works), T.1, 401.

25

Ibid., T.2., 231.

26

A. K. Gorsky, Organizatsya mirovozdeistivya (Organization of world-transformation); Gorsky and Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works), 166, 179.

27

V. N. Muravyov, Vseobshaia proizvoditel’naia matematika (Universal productive mathematics); Muravyov, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 2, book 2 (M., 2011), 133.

28

Ibid., 137, 138.

29

V. N., Muravyov, Kul’tura budushego (Culture of the future); Muravyov, Sochinenya (Works), vol. 2, book 2, 177.

30

Ibid., 175.

31

Gorsky, Organizatsya mirovozdeistivya (Organization of world-transformation); Gorsky and Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works), 164.

32

Gorsky, “Ogromnyi ocherk” (An enormous sketch); Gorsky and Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works), 200, 204.

33

Ibid., 193–94.

34

Gorsky and Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works), 200, 277.

35

Gorsky, Organizatsya mirovozdeistivya (Organization of world-transformation); Gorsky and Setnitsky, Sochinenya (Works), 153.

Translated from the Russian by Anastasiya Osipova.