Irina Knyazeva

Irina Knyazeva Shape the future of humanity by working on the future of Musical and Environmental Education.

My husband's main interest is the Arcadian Ideal from a social, political, and spiritual point of view. The interesting ...
04/10/2021

My husband's main interest is the Arcadian Ideal from a social, political, and spiritual point of view. The interesting thing is that in Russia we had similar visions and social daydreaming before the Revolution of 1917.

Nicholas Chernyshevsky's 'What Is It To Be Done?' (1863) is the most important radical novel in 19th-century literature. This author, the son of a priest, a journalist, critic, and revolutionary publicist composed his book in prison. It deals with the spiritual, esthetic, ethical, and recreational life of the here and now and of the future.

Chernyshevsky's social picture of the future is a community of people without a city, state, or central power, living a round of work, leisure, love, equality, and shared lives. The immediate environment is a glass palace, enclosing a communal building, with a winter garden, private rooms, and rooms for communal dining and social interaction.

Chernyshevsky's Commune near the center of Russia does not depend on futurist technology for its 'eternal happiness'. Fieldwork is assisted by machines beneath a wondrous canopy that shields the communications from sun and rain but the central vision is pastoral. No cities or factories are mentioned or projected. There is minimum technology, material prosperity, and sanitation (the glass palace representing both cleanliness and enlightenment).

The cycle of work, merriment, love, and rest are all accomplished in an aura of what the author calls 'polnaya volya, volnaya volya' - complete freedom, free freedom' for all.

These were the dreams of Chernyshevsky.

And these are also my ideas.

What are yours?

20/08/2021

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My husband's main interest is the Arcadian Ideal from a social, political, and spiritual point of view. The interesting...
03/07/2020

My husband's main interest is the Arcadian Ideal from a social, political, and spiritual point of view. The interesting thing is that in Russia we had similar visions and social daydreaming before the Revolution of 1917.

Nicholas Chernyshevsky's 'What Is It To Be Done?' (1863) is the most important radical novel in 19th-century literature. This author, the son of a priest, a journalist, critic, and revolutionary publicist composed his book in prison. It deals with the spiritual, esthetic, ethical, and recreational life of the here and now and of the future.

Chernyshevsky's social picture of the future is a community of people without a city, state, or central power, living a round of work, leisure, love, equality, and shared lives. The immediate environment is a glass palace, enclosing a communal building, with a winter garden, private rooms, and rooms for communal dining and social interaction.

Chernyshevsky's Commune near the center of Russia does not depend on futurist technology for its 'eternal happiness'. Fieldwork is assisted by machines beneath a wondrous canopy that shields the communications from sun and rain but the central vision is pastoral. No cities or factories are mentioned or projected. There is minimum technology, material prosperity, and sanitation (the glass palace representing both cleanliness and enlightenment).

The cycle of work, merriment, love, and rest are all accomplished in an aura of what the author calls 'polnaya volya, volnaya volya' - complete freedom, free freedom' for all.

These were the dreams of Chernyshevsky.

And these are also my ideas.

What are yours?

Going to the 'banya' is an old Russian custom. From medieval times it was popularly seen as a national institution, and ...
30/06/2020

Going to the 'banya' is an old Russian custom. From medieval times it was popularly seen as a national institution, and not to bath in one at least three times a week was practically taken as proof of foreign origins. Every noble household had its own steam house. In towns and villages, there was invariably a communal bath, where men and women sat steaming themselves, beating one another, according to the custom, with young birch leaves, and cooling themselves down rolling around together in the snow.

The banya was believed to have special healing powers - it was called the 'people's first doctor' and there were all sorts of magical beliefs associated with it. As a place of giving birth and of fertility, it was a custom in many places for the bride and the groom to go to the bathhouse before their wedding night.

For every Russian living abroad, the 'banya' is one of the things he/she is mostly missing.

Russian's Christian rituals were similarly influenced by pagan practices. From the 16th century, for example, the proces...
25/06/2020

Russian's Christian rituals were similarly influenced by pagan practices. From the 16th century, for example, the procession of the Cross in the Russian Church moved in clockwise circles with the Sun. It has been suggested that this was in imitation of the pagan circle dance (khorovod) which moved in the direction of the Sun to summon up its magic influence.

The onion dome of the Russian church was also modeled on the Sun. Its inner 'sky', or ceiling, usually depicted the Holy Trinity at the center of the Sun that radiated 12 apostolic rays. Medieval Russian churches and religious manuscripts were often decorated with plant motifs and other ornaments, such as rosettes, rhomboids, swastikas, and petals, crescent Moons, and trees, that were derived from pagan animistic cults.

The color red had special magic power. It was reserved for belts and towels that were used in sacred rituals. In Russian, the word 'red' (Krasnyi) is connected with the word for 'beautiful' (Krasivyi) - which explains, among other things, the naming of Red Square. Red, was equally the color of fertility - which was regarded as a sacred gift...

In Russia, the Bible did not exist in a complete published version until the middle of the 1870s. Among the peasants, Ch...
23/06/2020

In Russia, the Bible did not exist in a complete published version until the middle of the 1870s. Among the peasants, Christian saints and natural deities were combined.

There was Poludnitsa, Goddess of the harvest, worshipped through the placement of a sheaf of rye behind the icon in the peasant's house. Vlas, the protector of the herds, became in Christian times St Vlasius; and Lada, the deity of good fortune who featured in peasant wedding songs.

At the core of the Russian faith is distinctive stress on motherhood - the Bogoroditsa - which practically assumed the status of the Trinity in the Russian religious consciousness. There was also Rozhanitsa, the Goddess of fertility, and the ancient cult of Mother Earth, or the Goddess known as Mokosh, from which the myth of 'Mother Russia' was conceived. In its oldest peasant form, the Russian religion was a religion of the soil. The Russian religion was an expression of the Russian Heart...

We often speak about the passion of Russian Music. Russian Music was created through the assimilation of folk songs. Rom...
17/06/2020

We often speak about the passion of Russian Music. Russian Music was created through the assimilation of folk songs. Romantic feelings, suffering, sorrow, pain, hope, love, and happiness, were the main sources of its inspiration.

The first 'Collection of Russian Folk Songs' was assembled by Nikolai Lvov and annotated by Ivan Prach in 1790. The distinctive features of the peasant chant - the shifting tones and uneven rhythms that would become such a feature of the Russian musical style from Musorgsky to Stravinsky - were altered to conform to Western musical formulas so that the songs could be performed with conventional keyboard accompaniment.

It was this search of 'authentic' folk material that created an invisible thread connecting the small villages, the forests, and the misty valleys of Russia with the great concert halls and the piano rooms of Moscow and St Petersburg.

My non-human soul mate, 'Miko.' In Japanese the name means 'Witch.' and she is...
17/06/2020

My non-human soul mate, 'Miko.' In Japanese the name means 'Witch.' and she is...

What is the real essence of the Russian Soul?Many writers of the 19th century define the Russian character in terms that...
16/06/2020

What is the real essence of the Russian Soul?

Many writers of the 19th century define the Russian character in terms that are distinct from the values of the West. These writers set up the antithesis between European reason, and the Russian spirit. At the heart of this discourse, there is the old romantic idea of the native soil, the image of Mother Russia uncorrupted by civilization.

Such idyllic views of an Arcadian unspoiled past were commonplace in the times of Catherine the Great. Even the Russian writer, poet, historian, and critic Nikolay Karamzin, in his story 'Natalia,' idealized the 'virtuous and simple life of our ancestors; when the Russians were real Russians.' For many of these writers, Russia's virtues were preserved in the traditions of the countryside. 'Have a heart, have a soul, and you'll always be a man,' advises Starodum. 'Everything else is fashion.'

Passion, heart, and the ethos of Nature. These are the keys to understanding the depths of the Russian Heart.

Feelings and memories get mixed up in my head. Images of green forests beneath the grey sullen skies and cold rain showe...
16/06/2020

Feelings and memories get mixed up in my head. Images of green forests beneath the grey sullen skies and cold rain showers emerge from the depth. You and me, my country, together, in the carefree times of youth. In such moments our separation seems an impossible thing. Then, I become aware of this new life of mine.

I carry you in my heart Mother Russia, like the shade of a world I will always love, drifting further and further away.

I was born in Ufa, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia, to the west of the Southern ...
15/06/2020

I was born in Ufa, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia, to the west of the Southern Urals and from today I want to share some of my personal feelings and thoughts with you. Why did I decide nine years ago to leave everything behind and move to Greece? How I came to live this new life close to the deepest blue sea, amid ancient history and culture?

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