«...I continue to believe in the emergence of a movement close to Novy Grad»: Letters from Vladimir Varshavsky to Archpriest Kirill Fotiyev (1968–1977)

Abstract

The letters of the outstanding writer of the Russian Abroad Vladimir Varshavsky (1906-1978) to the family friend Archpriest Kirill Fotiyev (1928–1990) distinguish urgency and philosophical intuition. Many topical political and social events of the 1960–1970“s the author of epistolary considers through the ideological heritage of the pre-war religious-philosophical and social-political magazine “Novy Grad”. The publication of the letters provides an opportunity to pick up a lot about the history of the relationship between the Russian emigration of the “first wave” and the “third wave” and dissident savagery. The letters of writer Vladimir Varshavsky to a friend Archpriest Kirill Fotiyev cover several prime stories of the post-war period of Russian emigration. In the letters we find a response to many burning topics — from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the debate between A.I. Solzhenitsyn and A.D. Sakharov, which developed in the mid-1970s; from the internal policy of «Radio Liberty» to the ideological strategy of the «Russian Circle» of the University of Geneva. In the center of the discussion — reflections on the fate of Russia.