Encounters withthe Divine Sophia

Leo Tolstoy, 1881 Portrait

Vladimir Solovyov as a Young Man

Vladimir Solovyov, 1892 Portrait

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Constantinople)

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

Icon of Sophia in Novgorod Cathedral

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

Christ PantokratorRussian: Vsederzhitel’

The Earthly Transfigured by the Divine

Alexander Blok

Andrei Bely

Liubov’ Mendeleevain the Role of Ophelia

Valery Briusov and Nina Petrovskaya

Cover of Briusov’s The Fiery Angel