G.V. Vernadsry and P.N. Savitsky. The religious and philosophical aspects of the origins of Eurasianism. Appendix: G.V. Vernadsky. Obituary of P.N. Savitsky. Letters by G.V. Vernadsky, P.N. Savitsky, and A.N. Zelinsky. Part 2

Abstract

The publication deals with the little-studied pages of the Eurasianism’s history. The archival part includes a letter from the Soviet Eurasian A.N. Zelinsky to G.V. Vernadsky with the latter’s reply, as well as Vernadsky’s obituary dedicated to Savitsky. The preface to the publication describes briefly the history of friendship and relationship between Savitsky and Vernadsky, the circumstances of Vernadsky’s turn to Eurasianism, as well as his contribution to Eurasian historiosophy. The history of the relationship between Zelinsky and Vernadsky has not only a personal, but also a generational aspect – the fathers of the correspondents, the famous chemist, inventor of the gas mask N.D. Zelinsky was in a long-term relationship of friendship and scientific cooperation with the biogeochemist V. Vernadsky, whose main lines of thought and worldview, in turn, influenced Savitsky.