Встречи. Достоевский, Л. Толстой, Бунин-Зайцев, В. Иванов-Белый, Леонов

Fyodor Avgustovich Stepun (1884 - 1965) - a major Russian literary figure; Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Cultural and Philosophical Department of the Dresden Polytechnic and the University of Munich. One of the founders and editors of the Novy Grad magazine. Author of numerous interesting works, both literary and on religious and philosophical issues. Some of his works have been translated into foreign languages. In Russia, before the revolution, he was very popular and traveled around the Russian provinces with lectures on various topics. In emigration (since 1920) he wrote a lot about Russia, about Russian culture and enjoyed great respect and influence in German cultural circles interested in Russia. This collection includes a number of thematically overlapping articles that were written by the author for almost forty years, dedicated to those great figures of Russian culture who had the greatest influence on the author and his worldview. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface. — Worldview of Dostoevsky. - "Demons" and the Bolshevik Revolution. The Religious Tragedy of Leo Tolstoy. — Ivan Bunin. - About "Mitya's love." - To Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev - on his eightieth birthday. — Vyacheslav Ivanov. - In memory of Andrei Bely. — Soviet and émigré literature of the 1920s.