The following article, written by Amy Singleton Adams, was first published in Slavic Review Vol. 82 Issue 2, and is republished here with the permission of the author. In Lev Tolstoi’s War and Peace, the icon of the Smolensk Mother of God is carried behind the army as protectress and patriot. Soldiers run to bow to the icon
The following post by Nicoleta Strugari, an undergraduate student at Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania, continues the new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. “Papa,
The following video contains a conversation between Mikhail Epstein and Peter Winsky on the subjectivity and creativity of Artificial Intelligence, which was conducted on November 1, 2023. What follows the video is a dialogical article, which is a modified version of the conversation that has been edited for style and readability, and also includes additional
This article by Erik Eklund was originally published in Religion and the Arts 27 (2023), 6 October, 2023. It has been slightly revised for style. Erik recently won the Gennady Barabtarlo Best Essay Prize, an annual award for the best academic article or book chapter on Nabokov, for his article “‘The Name of God has Priority’: ‘God’ and
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the first in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. What