The center for Leo Tolstoy’s heritage studies in Kazan Federal University

   In March 2019, the Tolstoy Research and Education Center (the official name: “The Center for Leo Tolstoy’s Heritage Studies”) was established at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. This event is significant in its own way, given that the name of Leo Tolstoy is associated not just with Kazan as a city,
a point on the geographical map, but also, above all, with Kazan Imperial University, where the writer studied. The Tolstoy Center has some distinctive features: as a structure, it seeks to occupy its own “cultural and ecological” niche. These features are determined, first of all, by the main research tasks that the center faces. Their totality can be narrowed down to one basic direction, namely: the Center aims to study the oeuvre of Leo Tolstoy in the regional context, especially in the context of the cultural and national reception of his works by the peoples of Russia (mainly the Middle Volga region, to a large extent, by the Turkic-Tatar ethnic group). This includes, among other things: the task of collecting and systematizing literary translations of Leo Tolstoy’s works into the languages of non-Russian peoples of Russia and CIS; comparative and contrasting coverage of Leo Tolstoy’s literary connections with regional writers, philosophers and publicists; descriptions of the activities, conducted by regional Leo Tolstoy Schools and their areas of scientific and critical thought (including the understanding of individual prominent personalities’ conceptions). At the same time, the Center will not ignore broader, global issues and approaches in the framework of East-West literary relationships. Thus, of importance are the issues of Leo Tolstoy’s perception of Eastern religious and philosophical teachings, and the understanding of Leo Tolstoy’s worldview and his artistic experiences by Eastern cultural figures (for example, the topic “Tolstoy and the World of Muslim Spiritual Traditions” presented in various vectors and hypostases: “Tolstoy and the Koran”, “Leo Tolstoy and the Classic Writers of the Arab-Muslim East”, “Tolstoy and Sufism”). It should be emphasized that the target setting of the Center is not limited to Leo Tolstoy. Since Leo Tolstoy is the pinnacle and integrative, synthetic magnitude of Russian classical literature, then, logically, all the issues listed above and their study, can be referred to the names of other writers and poets who make up the “golden fund” of Russian literature. The Center is also engaged in special educational projects, public initiatives, and other forms of external organizational work.

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