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The paper presents Russian Masonry as the phenomenon which was a novelty for the Russian culture of the 18th century. The figure of Catherine the Great and some aspects of her inner politics are the reference points for considerations about the clash between Masonic anthroposophy and the traditional patterns of Russian culture: the Empire and the Orthodox Church. The analyses of primary sources allow...
Any language is a tool to organize and recognize the reality and to communicate ideas to the other members of a society. All concepts reflect ideas but the latter usually have some variants. Not a concept alone but its content is the key to understand the words which create a language picture of the reality od a specific social group. In the period of the Decembrism some new words occured and meaning...
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