"ЖЕЛАЛ БЫ ПОЛУЧИТЬ РАБОТУ В ОДНОЙ ИЗ ТЕПЛЫХ РЕСПУБЛИК НАШЕГО СОЮЗА". НОВЫЕ МАТЕРИАЛЫ К БИОГРАФИИ Л.П. КАРСАВИНА ЧАСТЬ ВТОРАЯ

Abstract

The article is the second and final part of the reconstruction of the circumstances of L.P. Karsavin’s post-war life in Lithuania immediately preceding his arrest. The author of the article shows how the philosopher tried to find a place in Soviet Lithuania, but was unable to match the degree of loyalty expected of him. On a strictly documentary basis he describes the relations of the thinker with Vilnius State University, Vilnius State Art Institute, Vilnius Art Museum; reconstructs the circumstances of the arrest of Karsavin’s daughter Irina and shows by documents the Karsavin’s trip to Leningrad in 1948 and to Moscow in 1949. The author stresses that discussions about the role and scientific status of L.P. Karsavin and V.E. Sezeman in the late 1940s should be included in the broad idea-based context of the ideological campaigns of those years (against objectivism, cosmopolitanism, and low worship of the West). The article introduces a set of archival documents that are important for the history of Russian thought.