House of Nikolai Berdyaev (Maison de Nicolas Berdiaev) description and photos - France: Paris (Topic)

House of Nikolai Berdiaev (Maison de Nicolas Berdiaev) description and photos - France: Paris. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Maison de Nicolas Berdiaev.

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The house-museum of Nikolai Berdyaev, the great Russian religious and political philosopher, is located ten kilometers south-west of Paris, in the suburb of Clamart.

Russian idealist Berdyaev was persecuted under the tsar, in the USSR he was twice imprisoned, was personally interrogated by Dzerzhinsky and expelled from the country on a "philosophical steamer." In exile, he wrote a number of works comparing the world's religious and philosophical teachings. The key role in his views belonged to freedom, in which he saw the only mechanism of creativity. Freedom is pleasing to God, but it is also capable, violating the “divine hierarchy of being,” to generate evil. Christianity is a "religion of freedom". “I have a conviction that God is present only in freedom and acts only through freedom,” wrote the philosopher.

The scientist was in great need of emigration. In 1938 he received an inheritance - a house in the ancient sleepy Clamart. Now Nikolai Alexandrovich had a roof over his head, otherwise his financial situation did not improve. During the German occupation, he was interrogated by the Gestapo, but did not persecute him - in the German command there was an expert in philosophy who knew the name of the thinker.

In 1948, Berdyaev died at his desk. He bequeathed the house to the Korsun diocese. There is a memorial plaque on the house now. Behind the fence is a small garden with a pond, a statue of a boy among the well-groomed bushes. The owner's study is preserved inside: a bookcase with his portrait, a worn armchair and a desk. On the table is a desk calendar open for March 24, the date of the philosopher's death. Old bookcases haven't survived the test of time but on the shelves are volumes of the journals "Put" and "Vozrozhdenie", which the scientist edited in exile.

The grave of Nikolai Berdyaev is located three kilometers from his home at the local cemetery. Carved at the base of a simple cross: Nicolas Berdiaev. On the same small churchyard there are the graves of the Trubetskoy, Gagarin, Obolensky, Lopukhins.

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