The First Seminar of the Research Team Project

On February 1, the first research seminar titled «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place.

Varvara Kukushkina and Pavel Yushin presented a fragment of the collective research of the group members, making a report on scientific and literary sources of the «star horror» topos and analyzing the relationship between the two images: Edvard Munch’s «The Scream of Nature» (1893) and Mariia Iakunchikova’s «L’Effroi» (1893-1895).