A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia The Masonic Circle
The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment shows peculiar features, which prevent the application of the interpretative framework com
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