Freemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg -- Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N.I. Novikov's Circle -- Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West -- The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar
Summary
"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 commonly used for the history of western thought. The author deals with the development of early Russian masonry, the formation of the Novikov circle in Moscow, the 'programme' of Rosicrucianism and the character of its Russian variant and, finally, the clash between the Rosicrucians and the State. The author concludes that the defenders of the Ancien Regime were not wrong."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-287) and index