How are religion and Russian space science connected
RBTH
28 May 2021, 04:55 GMT+10
A nation with a past deeply rooted in the religious worldview, Russians happened to get to space first in 1961 - and Yuri Gagarin, famously, didn t see God . But, religion and astronautics have always been close.
The idea of space travel was first created by a Russian Orthodox philosopher that was born with the last name Gagarin.
Portrait of Nikolay Fyodorov by Leonid Pasternak
Leonid Pasternak
A school teacher and librarian, Nikolay Fyodorov (1829-1903) opposed the idea of property of books and ideas and never published anything during his lifetime. He refused to be photographed and to sit for portraits and two of his depictions had to be made secretly. Most of his teachings he conveyed orally to his disciples and friends. The founder of the Russian cosmism philosophy, Nikolay was a bastard son of Prince Pavel Gagarin (1789-1872). It is considered a coincidence that the first man in space a
How are religion and Russian space science connected? Pyotr Kovalev/ТASS A nation with a past deeply rooted in the religious worldview, Russians happened to get to space first in 1961 – and Yuri Gagarin, famously, “didn’t see God”. But, religion and astronautics have always been close.
The idea of space travel was first created by a Russian Orthodox philosopher that was born with the last name ‘Gagarin.’
Portrait of Nikolay Fyodorov by Leonid Pasternak Leonid Pasternak
A school teacher and librarian, Nikolay Fyodorov (1829-1903) opposed the idea of property of books and ideas and never published anything during his lifetime. He refused to be photographed and to sit for portraits and two of his depictions had to be made secretly. Most of his teachings he conveyed orally to his disciples and friends. The founder of the Russian cosmism philosophy, Nikolay was a bastard son of Prince Pavel Gagarin (1789-1872). It is considered a coincidenc
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.