Розенкрейцеры в советской России. Документы 1922-1937 гг.

This book continues the series Mystical Societies and Orders in soviet Russia. All writing and activity of mystics and their organizations were absolutely illegal in Soviet Russia, and as a result of political reprisals all information about it was hidden from historians. After the collapse of communist power and the opening of secret archives the possibility emerged for studying this side of Russian spiritual life. The author presents previously unknown documents on Rosicrucian orders: Emesh Redivivus, Khermorion, Nohireth, Lux Astrals, etc. It includes over 40 NKVD interrogation cases of members of these orders in 1922-1937 and verdicts in two collective trials. Among the Rosicrucian were some famous people like actors Michael Chekhov and Sergei Ezenshtein. Name index. The first volume, Orden Rossiiskikh Tamplierov. V Trekh Tomakh (2003), and standing order are available.