This presentation was made to accompany a lecture on the Divine Sophia in Russian philosophy and poetry.

1. Encounters with
the Divine Sophia

2. Leo Tolstoy, 1881 Portrait

3. Vladimir Solovyov as a Young Man

4. Vladimir Solovyov, 1892 Portrait

5. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
(Constantinople)

6. Mosaic of Christ as Divine Wisdom with a Woman, an
Angel, and an Emperor, Hagia Sophia

7. Icon of Sophia in Novgorod Cathedral

8. Icon of Sophia in the Cathedral of the
Dormition, Moscow Kremlin

9. Christ Pantokrator
Russian: Vsederzhitel’

10. The Earthly Transfigured by the Divine

11. Alexander Blok

12. Andrei Bely

13. Liubov’ Mendeleeva
in the Role of Ophelia

14. Valery Briusov and Nina Petrovskaya

15. Cover of Briusov’s The Fiery Angel