19 Facts About Lev Karsavin

Lev Platonovich Karsavin was a Russian religious philosopher, historian-medievalist, and poet.

Lev Platonovich Karsavin was born into the family of Platon Konstantinovich Karsavin, a ballet actor at the Mariinsky Theatre, and his wife Anna Iosifovna, nee Khomyakova, the daughter of the cousin of Aleksey Khomyakov, a famous Slavophile.

Lev Karsavin was the brother of the ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

Lev Karsavin was a student of Ivan Grevs, graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Saint Petersburg State University.

Lev Karsavin was the Privatdozent of the Saint Petersburg Imperial University, then professor.

Lev Karsavin's Master's thesis is a monograph entitled Essays on religious life in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Lev Karsavin was a member of the Petrograd Brotherhood of St Sophia.

Lev Karsavin was one of the founding members of the Free Philosophical Association.

Lev Karsavin was a co-founder of the Obelisk publishing house.

Lev Karsavin joined the Eurasian movement: he headed the Eurasian Seminar in Paris and was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Eurasia and its leading author, he participated in Eurasian compilations.

Lev Karsavin was arrested and accused of "participating in the anti-Soviet Eurasianist movement and preparing to overthrow the Soviet state".

Lev Karsavin died of tuberculosis in the Abez camp, a special camp for the disabled in the settlement of Abez, Komi Republic.

In 1989, the burial place of Lev Karsavin was found in an abandoned camp cemetery near the village of Abez.

In 1990, the leaders of Sajudis in Lithuania had the idea of transferring Lev Karsavin's remains to the capital, but Lev Karsavin's daughters Susanna and Marianna spoke out against the idea.

In October 2005, a bilingual marble memorial plaque by sculptor Romualdas Kvintas was installed on the facade of the house on Didzioji Street in Vilnius, where Lev Karsavin lived from 1940 to 1949.

Lev Karsavin's based on extensive material works of the early period are devoted to the history of medieval religious movements and the spiritual culture of the Middle Ages.

Lev Karsavin strove to create an integral system of the Christian worldview.

Lev Karsavin drew on early Christian teachings and Russian religious philosophy, especially the tradition of Vladimir Solovyov.

Lev Karsavin believed that the development of human personality is closely linked to the process of its deification.