Paths of Russian Love

A follow-up to "e;Atlas of Love,"e; inspired by a well-known Writer's idea about the imported origins of Russian love, which sparked a heated debate on the RuNet. A journey through time to the origins of the phenomenon of Russian love through key manuscripts and the most striking destinies of the Golden, Silver, and Torn Ages of Russian love. The first part The Golden Age of Russian Love presents three vectors of Russian love. The romantic vector of Russian love is evident in the lives and works of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Alexei K. Tolstoy; the pursuit of reason and freedom in love reveals in Herzen, Turgenev, and Chernyshevsky; and immersion into the depths of the human soul is characteristic of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Chekhov. In the second part, The Silver Age of Russian Love, the search for true love is presented through the works and love stories of Tchaikovsky, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vasily Rozanov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Nikolai Gumilyov, and Anna Akhmatova. The three vectors of Russian love from the Golden Age (romantic, rational, and innermost) converged in the Silver Age at one key point the search for a new person. In the third part of the book, The Torn Age of Russian Love, we trace the paths of Russian love in the lives and works of Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Alexei N. Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Yuri Nagibin, Bella Akhmadulina, and Alina Vitukhnovskaya.