1. Nikolai Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family.
17 Facts About Nikolai Berdyaev
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Nikolai Berdyaev became a Marxist for a period and was arrested in a student demonstration and expelled from the university.
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Nikolai Berdyaev's disaffection culminated, in 1919, with the foundation of his own private academy, the "Free Academy of Spiritual Culture".
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Nikolai Berdyaev presented his opinions in public lectures, and every Tuesday, the academy hosted a meeting at his home because official Soviet anti-religious activity was intense at the time and the official policy of the Bolshevik government, with its Soviet anti-religious legislation, strongly promoted state atheism.
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Nikolai Berdyaev transferred his academy there, and taught, lectured and wrote, working for an exchange of ideas with the French and European intellectual community, and participated in a number of international conferences.
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One of the central themes of Nikolai Berdyaev's work was philosophy of love.
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Nikolai Berdyaev published works about Russian history and the Russian national character.
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Nikolai Berdyaev's work is featured in the dedication of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel "Brave New World".
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Nikolai Berdyaev was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and believed Orthodoxy was the religious tradition closest to early Christianity.
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Nicholas Nikolai Berdyaev was an Orthodox Christian it must be said that he was an independent and somewhat a "liberal" kind.
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Nikolai Berdyaev criticized the Russian Orthodox Church and described his views as anticlerical.
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Nikolai Berdyaev is frequently presented as one of the important Russian Orthodox thinkers of the 20th century.
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Nikolai Berdyaev affirmed universal salvation, as did several other important Orthodox theologians of the 20th century.
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Nikolai Berdyaev was among those that chose to remain under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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Currently, the house in Clamart in which Nikolai Berdyaev lived, now comprises a small "Berdiaev-museum" and attached Chapel in name of the Holy Spirit, under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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In recent years, efforts to archive and document Nikolai Berdyaev's work have expanded.
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In 1901 Nikolai Berdyaev opened his literary career so to speak by work on Subjectivism and Individualism in Social Philosophy.