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Nikolai Fyodorov, el Sócrates de Moscú que impulsó el cosmismo y la carrera espacial soviética
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Cosmism: Russia s religion for the rocket age
By Benjamin Ramm20th April 2021
Nikolai Fyodorov s beliefs in a cosmic religion centred on life off Earth helped inspire some of the Soviet Union s most brilliant engineers.
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On 28 December 1903, during a particularly harsh Russian winter, a pauper died of pneumonia on a trunk he had rented in a room full of destitute strangers. Nikolai Fyodorov died in obscurity, and he remains almost unknown in the West, yet in life he was celebrated by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and by a devoted group of disciples – one of whom is credited with winning the Space Race for the Soviet Union.