Lev Lvovich Kobylinsky (; 2 August 1879,

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) was a poet, translator, theorist of symbolism, the Christian philosopher and historian of literature. His pseudonym was Ellis.

Biography

Lev Kobylinsky was born in Moscow. He was an illegitimate son of the director of private gymnasium Lev Polivanoff. In 1902, he graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University. Together with

Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (, ; – 8 January 1934), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner. Hi ...

organized a poetic circle of " Argonauts ". In the years 1904–1909 an active member of the magazine ''Libra''. During 1910–1917, along with Andrew White and Emily Medtner founded the publishing house "Musaget". He emigrated to Switzerland in 1911. Like his friend Andrei Bely, became interested in

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, but later he accepted

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and joined the

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. Ellis wrote literary and philosophical works in German. He died in Locarno, Switzerland.

Alignment

Christian worldview Ellis Kobylinsky was not orthodox. Ellis defended the idea of reincarnation in his view the multiplicity of personalities - the result of the sinfulness of human nature. He considered the highest form of art symbolism and was a supporter of the aristocratic individualism and fan of

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

. His intuition considered as the essence of the symbolic contemplation, contemplation logically distinguishing purely intellectual, artistic and mystical.

Creativity

Ellis's poems "written under the influence of Soloviev, Bryusov, Bely and Balmont, according to the religious understanding of the world and the quest that come from the children's proximity to supermaterial world, that of religion permeated the life of the Middle Ages". ;Criticism *"Immorteli." In 2 vols., 1904 *"Russian Symbolists', 1910 *«Vigilemus», 1914 ;Collections of poetry *«Stigmata», 1911 *"Argo: Two books of poetry and the poem", 1914 ;Philosophical writings *Platon und Solowjew, Mainz, 1926 *Christliche Weisheit, Basel, 1929 ("Christian wisdom") *WA Joukowski, Paderborn, 1933 *Alexander Puschkin, der religiose Genius Russlands, Ölten, 1948 *"The Kingdom of Saint Peter"

Publications

* ''Ellis''. Poems. Tomsk: Aquarius, 1996. * ''Ellis''. Russian Symbolists. Tomsk: Aquarius, 1996. - 288. * ''Ellis''. Unpublished and Uncollected. Tomsk: Aquarius, 2000. - 460. * ''Baudelaire'' "Flowers of Evil" and the prose poem in translation Ellis. Tomsk: Aquarius, 1993. - 400 s.

References

*Nefed'ev GV Russian symbolism, from spiritualism to anthroposophy. Two documents to the biography of Ellis / / New Literary Review. Number 39. 1999. - P.119-140. *Kudryavtseva EL "I - XIII century man ...": the biography of Ellis / / HIDDEN Literature: Research and materials. Ivanovo, Vol. 2. S. 281–288. *Renata von Maydell. "hasten quietly": the history of the occult interests Ellis / / New Literary Review. Number 51. 2001. - P.214-239. *

Wolfgang Kasack Wolfgang Kasack (, ''Volfgang Germanovich Kazak''; Potsdam, 20 January 1927 – Much, 10 January 2003) was a German Slavic studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic fiel ...

''Lexicon Russian Literature of the 20th Century'' = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - 492. - 5000 copies. - - S. 482.

External links

*http://www.poesis.ru/poeti-poezia/ellis/biograph.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20130920112423/http://www.silverage.ru/poets/ellis_bio.html *https://istina.rin.ru/philosofy/text/4376.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Kobylinsky, Lev Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Jesuits from the Russian Empire Male poets from the Russian Empire Translators from the Russian Empire Catholic philosophers Historians from the Russian Empire Literary historians from the Russian Empire 1879 births 1947 deaths Soviet emigrants to Switzerland Writers from Moscow 20th-century Russian translators 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers