In 1922, when her best minds were expelled from Russia, the outstanding Russian philosopher Gustav Shpet refused to leave the country on the so -called “philosophical ship”. In 1937, he paid for this life. His youngest daughter Marina was born in 1916. All the hardships of the era fell into her lot, but she recalls two decades next to her father as a holiday. A student of Husserl, a brilliant thinker, erudite and inimitable interlocutor, Shpet was friends with Andrei Bely, Kachalov, Moskvin, Baltrusitis, Shchusev, Pilnyak, the color of the intelligentsia was gathered in the house. This book is not just memories, but the never -ending dialogue between her daughter with her father, shot when she was twenty -one years old. In her story, the life of several generations of the family takes place, where among the ancestors there were Guchkovs, Ziloti, Rachmaninovs, and among relatives, Ekaterina Maximov and Boris Pasternak.
Director Elena Yakovich, author of films about Joseph Brodsky, Vasily Grossman, Sergey Dovlatov, created this book on her film “The daughter of the philosopher Spet” and …
Author
Yakovich Elena
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
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