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I would like to say a few words about the intellectual message that stands out through Dasha, her life, her projects and aspirations, and the depths and heights of her heart as embodied in her diary and expressed in the two main ideas which I will now present.
Life in today's world presupposes and even requires an enormous effort on our part, not only in worldly matters and outward movements. Above all, it requires an effort of the mind, of thought - a mental effort, a "mental doing" as it was called in the monastic tradition of the "holy fathers", w this praxis of the Mind is necessary not only to make a "distinction", diacrisis, as the Greek Platonists used to say, to distinguish one from the other - the precious from the non-precious, the good from the bad, the casual from the fatal, but for something much greater and more significant... We live in a damaged, twisted world, in a broken civilisation whose backbone is broken, as is its perception of vertical and hierarchical superiority. An intelligent effort is needed to restore the proportions of this intelligent hierarchical world, the model for which was created by Plato, and that is Platonism.
Ninety years ago, the Bolsheviks of Soviet Russia performed a political and symbolic act with the provisional title of 'philosopher's ship' (which historiography more crudely calls 'philosopher's steamer'). Nominally, it was the expulsion of part of the Russian humanist intelligentsia from Russia to Germany and Latvia. In September 1922, two steamships left Petrograd and many others sailed from Sevastopol. Among the thinkers who found themselves in exile were Russian philosophers: N. A. Berdyaev, I. A. Ilyin, L. P. Karsavin, N. O. Lossky, P. A. Sorokin, S. E. Trubetskoy, S. L. Frank and others. Many thinkers, writers and musicians had left Russia even earlier. Among them: S. V. Rachmaninoff, S. S. Prokofiev, I. Severyanin, V. Nabokov, I. A. Bunin, Z. N. Hippius, D. S. Merezhkovsky, K. D. Balmont, , A. M. Belyi, A. M. Rechka. Belyi, A. M. Remizov, B. K. Zaitsev, I. G. Ehrenburg, V. V. Kandinsky, F. I. Chaliapin, M. I. Tsvetaeva, V. B. Shklovsky, V. F. Khodasevich, etc. Many of those who did not leave Soviet Russia were repressed and even shot (N. Gumilev, later N. Klyuev), some committed suicide, others went into internal exile...
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