This man was an outstanding mathematician, philosopher, theologian, art critic, writer, engineer, linguist and thinker national scale.Fate has prepared him worldwide fame and tragic fate.He left the works born of his powerful mind.The name of this person - Pavel Florensky.
Childhood future scientist
21 January 1882 at the railway engineer Alexander Ivanovich Florensky and his wife, Olga Pavlovna's son, who was named Paul.The family lived in the town of Yevlakh Yelizavetpol province.Now it is the territory of Azerbaijan.In addition to his family afterwards will still have five children.
Reminiscing about his early years, Paul Florensky wrote that a child has a tendency to notice and analyze all unusual that goes beyond ordinary life.In all, he was inclined to see the hidden manifestations of "spirituality of life and immortality."Regarding the latter, the very thought of it was seen as something natural and not to be questioned.By his own admission scientist is observing children later formed the basis of his religious and philosophical beliefs.
Studies at the University of
After graduating with honors from high school in Tiflis, Pavel Florensky seventeen went to Moscow and became a student of physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University.In his student years, he closely communicated with the representatives of the advanced Russian youth of those years.Among his acquaintances -Balmont, Bruce, Z. Gippius, A. Block, and others whose names entered the history of Russian culture.
But at the end of his studies, he felt a clear lack of knowledge gained at university.What are the future plans of building Florenskii?Paul understood that for him the narrow confines of the natural sciences.Established in his mind a picture of the universe defied rational explanation.In search of new truths he entered the Theological Academy.
Theological Academy
Within the walls of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in his ideas are the synthesis of the natural sciences with religious precepts.He thought, secular culture, the Church and art should make a coherent whole.After graduating from the Academy in 1914, Florensky Pavel received the title of Master of Theology.
Even in the academy, he was ordained to the priesthood.Here, in Sergiev Posad, up until 1921, and he carried his pastoral ministry a young priest, Father Paul Florensky.The range of his activities in the period of study was very broad.At the academy, he both studied and taught, and lectured and edited academic journal.
first years after the revolution
revolution for him was a heavy shock.By his own admission, he took it as an apocalypse.Political beliefs are shared by Paul Florensky, it can be called theocratic monarchism.These he described in detail in the end of his life in the work, which will be written in the camp shortly before his death.
In the first years after the revolution, its main activity is art history.Pavel Florensky made great efforts to save the historical and artistic treasures of Lavra.He had to literally convince uneducated representatives of the new government the need to preserve many historical monuments.
work in Soviet institutions
With a deep knowledge of engineering science from the University of Paul Florensky became a professor VHUTEMAS and also participated in the development plan for electrification.During the twenties, he wrote a number of major scientific works.In this work he was assisted Trotsky, which later played in the life of Florenskii fatal.
Despite repeatedly presents an opportunity to leave Russia, Pavel did not follow the example of many representatives of the Russian intelligentsia, left the country.He was one of the first who tried to combine the church service and cooperation with Soviet institutions.
Arrest and detention
turning point in his life came in 1928.The scientist was exiled to Nizhny Novgorod, but soon returned to Moscow.By the beginning of the thirties is a period of persecution in the Soviet scientist publications.In February 1933 he was arrested and five months later the decision of the court was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on the infamous article fifty-eighth.
place where he was to serve his sentence, he was appointed camp in Eastern Siberia, named as if in mockery of prisoners "free."There, behind barbed wire, it was created by the research department of management BUMLAGa.We worked there scientists who find themselves in prison, like thousands of other Soviet people in the ruthless era of Stalinist repression.Together with them, he led the scientific work and the prisoner Pavel Florensky.
In February 1934 he was transferred to another camp, who was in Skovorodino.It was located permafrost station, which conducted scientific studies on permafrost.Taking part in them, Pavel wrote several scientific papers, which addressed issues related to the construction on permafrost.
End of life scientist
In August 1934 Florenskii suddenly placed in a detention center camp, and a month later escorted to the Solovki camp.Here he was engaged in scientific work.Exploring the process of obtaining iodine from seaweed, scientists have patented more than a dozen scientific discoveries.In November 1937, the decision of the Special NKVD troika Florensky was sentenced to death.
exact date of death is unknown.Date December 15, 1943, specified in the notice, sent to relatives, was false.He was buried this outstanding figure of Russian science, who made an invaluable contribution in the most different areas of knowledge, in the heathland Levashova near Leningrad, in general an unmarked grave.In one of his last letters, he wrote bitterly that the truth is that for all that you give the world a good, waiting for retribution in the form of suffering and persecution.
Paul Florensky, whose biography is very similar to the biographies of many Russian scientists and artists of the time, was posthumously rehabilitated.And fifty years after his death I saw the light of the last book of the scientist.In it, he wondered about the political system in future years.
