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I N D E X Abbé Dubos (Jean-Baptiste Dubos), 258–59 Abgar, king of Edessa, 324n56 Abraham (Biblical patriarch), 239 absolutism, absolute power, 122, 194, 223, 246, 280n32, 336n38 Academy of Fine Arts, 139, 254 Academy of Sciences, 126, 127, 254, 297n71 Adams, John, 140–41 Addison, Joseph, Cato (The Dying Cato), 118, 293n33, 330n33 adulthood, adult consciousness, 234, 251, 257 Aesop, Aesopian mode, 128, 292n22 aesthetics, as sensual perception, 75 Aetna, 59 Africa, 198 Ageeva, O. G., 277nn7–9 aggression (in odes), 36, 50–60 Akhmat, Khan, 202 Alekseev, Vladimir N., 299n12, 305n74 Alekseeva, N. Iu., 274n36, 281n1, 282n22, 283n29 Aleksei (“Man of God”), Saint, 208 Aleksei Mikhailovich, 82 Alexander I, 261, 332n76 Alexander Nevskii, Saint, 82 Alexander Nevsky Monastery Seminary, 217 Algarroti, Francesco, on the “window on Europe,” 22, 279n28 All-Seeing Eye, 35, 56, 110, 240–41, 331n55 Amazons, 267 America, 254, 265 Amvrosii (Zertis-Kamensky), Archbishop, 195, 196, 197, 198, 216–20, 322n25, 326n76, 326n79 Anacreon, Anacreontic poetry, 290n15, 315n87 Anchikov, Dmitrii, 302n33 Andreyev, Nikolay, 322n18, 326n82 Angiolini, Gasparo, 320n7 Anna (Empress), 28, 49–50, 52, 55, 56–57 Anna Leopol’dovna (regent), 57, 283n34 anticpated self, 25, 39, 51, 61, 64–65, 79, 251, 268 Apollo, 28, 35, 37, 49 Apollos (Baibakov), Iermonakh, Evgeont, or the Contemplation of Visible Divine Matters in Nature (Evgeont, ili sozertsanie v nature bozhikh vidiymkh del), 312n60 apophatic theology. See Eastern Orthodoxy approbation, approbativeness, 128, 130, 132–33, 137–39, 142, 225, 248, 257, 267, 298n2, 334n9. See also Lovejoy, Arthur Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 167, 310n33 argument from design, 158, 165–83 passim Aristarkh, Hegumen: “Chronicle of the Bogoliubov Monastery from 1158 to 1770” (“Letopis’ Bogoliubova Monastyria c 1158 po 1770 god”), 203–4, 206, 207, 221, 322n32 Aristotle, Aristotelianism, 18, 22, 24, 98, 160, 163, 166–70 passim, 273n16, 256, 289n48, 310n33, 311n36, 312n53 wonder: see Aristotelian versus sublime wonder art, the arts, 6, 7, 12, 14, 22, 26, 30–31, 81, 83, 84, 100, 113–14, 124, 137, 142, 150, 161, 197, 218, 220, 225, 254, 260, 275n40, 299n9, 309n26, 310n30, 325n67 342 Index “total work of art” (Gesamkunstwerk), 367 the universe as a work of art, 168 Artem’eva, Tat’iana V., 273n17, 286n12 Artistona (character in Sumarokov’s Artistona), 98, 103, 113–14, 295n46 Asia, Asiatic, 198, 226, 257, 265 Aspafin (character in Rzhevsky’s The False Smerdius), 85, 108 astronomy, 35, 171, 190 atheists, atheism, 128, 133, 166, 175, 183, 217, 239, 302n33, 314n84, 319n6 Athena, 37, 283n43. See also Minerva atom, atomism, ism, 167, 188, 190, 302n33, 311n47 Atrides, 83, 290n15 Augustus, Augustan age, 21, 83, 279n29 Auteroche, Abbé Chappe d,’ 319n3, 328n15 autobiography, 14, 125–28, 134, 135, 148, 150, 298n4, 298n6, 299n14, 300n17, 303n48, 306n77, 206n78, 318n118 and the Enlightenment ideal of the individual, 126 autocrat, autocracy, 118–23 passim, 127, 141, 242, 246, 252, 296n57, 297n70, 299n12, 300n18, 304n64. See also tyrant, tyranny autumn, 47 avant-garde, 267, 272n11 Baehr, Stephen Lessing, 29, 288n40 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 234, 263, 329n35 barbarians, barbarism, 53, 59, 80, 111, 114, 183, 226, 257, 259, 261, 283n27 baroque, 24, 56, 70, 76, 87–88, 155, 184, 201, 215, 243, 245 contrast with classicism. See classicism Basil (the Great), Saint, 20, 172, 208, 278n13 Hexaemeron, 172 Batteux, Charles, Cours de belles lettres, 256 beards, 218–19 beauty, 33, 39, 48, 52, 61, 63, 69, 75, 98, 102, 143, 163, 165, 169, 173, 175, 179, 184, 200, 250, 288n44, 320n18 in Eastern Orthodoxy, 21, 75, 289n50 See also Eastern Orthodoxy, aesthetics Belisarius. See Marmontel Bellay, Joachim du, 258 Bellona, 37 Bentham, Jeremy, 125 Berkeley, George, 271n5 Betskoi, Ivan, 217, 305n76 Bible, 65, 184, 306n3, 328n21, 329n30. See also individual books by name Billington, James H., 7–10, 26, 264 Biron, Ernst Johann von, 57, 283n42 blindness, blinding, 24, 48, 53, 57, 88, 92, 95, 96, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 181, 183, 185, 186, 220, 226, 229, 230, 231, 232, 240, 245, 247, 289n47 Blumenberg, Hans, 23 Bogdanovich, Ippolit, 254 Bogoliubskaia Mother of God. See Mother of God Bogoliubskaia (icon, icon type) Bogoliubsky Monastery, 203, 204 Bogoliubsky, Andrei, Prince, 202–4, 207, 208, 215 canonization, 203, 204 bogovidenie, 64–77, 159, 284n1 bogozrenie, 159, 284n1 Boileau, Nicolas (Boileau-Despréaux), 258, 281n1 “Ode sur la prise de Namur,” 288n46 translation of Pseudo-Longinus, “On the Sublime,” 19, 164, 311n36 Boltin, I. N., 120 book of nature (literary trope), 15, 153–57, 161, 183 Boris, Saint, 20, 219 Bourdieu, Pierre, 255 Brahma, 239 Breitschuh, wilhelm, 179, 314n76...

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