Nikolai Berdyaev
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.
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Nikolai Berdyaev in 1910
Nikolai Berdyaev in 1912
Berdyaev's grave, Clamart (France)
Philosophers' ships
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The philosophers' ships or philosopher's steamers were steamships that transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922.
Nikolai Berdyaev
…on trial, but he was freed. Now there is a man who had a "point of view"! After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in the Weimar…
Oberbürgermeister Haken, photographed between 1895 and 1927, was one of the two main ships used in the deportations
Cartoon of those exiled aboard the Philosopher's ships being kicked out from the Russian SFSR towards to the West.
1922 drawing of professor Ivan Ilyin and Prince Serge Troubetzkoy on a steamship sailing for Germany.