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Mamleev Yuri Vitalievich - writer and philosopher, playwright and poet. His works have been translated into major European languages. Founder of the philosophical and patriotic doctrine (teaching) “Eternal Russia” (it is set out in the book “Eternal Russia”, Aif-print, 2002). The founder of a new literary movement in modern Russian literature is metaphysical realism.

Biography

Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev was born on December 11, 1931 in Moscow. In 1956 he graduated from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute and received an engineering diploma. From 1957 to 1974 he taught mathematics in evening schools. But his main field of activity was literature. His stories, novels, and philosophical essays were distributed in Samizdat, since it was impossible to publish them in Soviet publishing houses. In the 60s, many figures (people) of the “unofficial culture” of that time gathered at his apartment on Yuzhinsky Lane. Among them are such poets and artists as Leonid Gubanov, Genrikh Sapgir, Lev Kropivnitsky, Alexander Kharitonov, later Veniamin Erofeev and many other now well-known representatives of the creative intelligentsia who have distinguished themselves in art, philosophy, and literature.
Due to the impossibility of publishing his works, Yu. Mamleev emigrated with his wife to the USA in 1974, where he taught and worked at Cornell University, spoke at other prestigious universities in the USA, and later, in 1983, moved to Paris, to France, where he taught Russian literature and language at the Meudon Institute of Russian Culture, and then at the famous Institute of Oriental Civilizations in Paris. During the period of forced emigration, his works were translated into European languages, and his work received recognition in the West.
After the regime change in Russia, Yuri Mamleev was one of the first to come to Russia. Since the beginning of the 90s, his books began to be widely published in Russia. During this time (from the early 1990s to 2008), 27 of his books were published, including books on philosophy, and many articles, interviews in the press, and appearances on radio and television appeared. At the same time, the publication of his books in the West continued. Many articles and studies about his work have appeared both in Western and Russian languages, diplomas and dissertations have been defended. Yuri Mamleev's plays were staged in Russia and at a festival in Austria, in Graz (in German).
From 1994 to 1999, Yuri Mamleev, as an Indologist, taught Indian philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. He is a member of the executive committee of the Russian-Indian Friendship Society. He was also involved in social activities: he was a member of the Commission for the Return of Citizenship under the President of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the French Pen Club (an international organization of writers), the Union of Writers of Russia, the Union of Theater Workers, and the Russian Pen Club. He created a new literary movement (metaphysical realism), the foundations of which are outlined in the chapter “Metaphysics and Art” of his philosophical book “The Fate of Being.” The avant-garde of this movement is organized as a section under the Union of Writers of Russia, and Yu. Mamleev is the President of the Club of Metaphysical Realism of the Central House of Writers.
As a philosopher, Yuri Mamleev, in addition to teaching Indian philosophy at Moscow State University, is known for his main philosophical works: “The Fate of Being” (published in the journal “Problems of Philosophy” for 1993, No. 10, 11 and then in the collection “Unio mystica”, Terra , 1997) and “Russia Eternal” (see “Russia Eternal”, Aif-print, 2002).
In “The Fate of Being” Yu. Mamleev substantiated his own philosophical teaching. As an Indologist, he proceeded from some of the provisions of Vedanta (now recognized throughout the world as one of the peaks of human thought). But then Yu. Mamleev went beyond the boundaries of Vedanta, creating the doctrine of metadualism, especially in the chapter “The Last Doctrine,” which introduces something fundamentally new into the world metaphysical Tradition.
In the book "Eternal Russia" Yu. Mamleev explores the depths of Russian culture and spirit. As a result, he created a completely new interpretation of the Russian idea, in fact an integral philosophical and patriotic teaching that has no analogues anywhere.
Y. Mamleev’s work has been repeatedly awarded with various literary grants and prizes: in 2000 he received the highly prestigious Pushkin Prize (Germany), and the Andrei Bely International Prize (1993).
You can read articles about Mamleev and his work in literary and other encyclopedias, dictionaries (including in foreign languages), in the encyclopedic dictionary "Fatherland" (RE publishing house, 1999), which includes the most prominent people of Russia in the field of culture and science , politicians, etc. for the entire period of the existence of Rus' and Russia (from ancient times to the present).
Mamleev's works were published in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hebrew, and Chinese.
A study by Rosa Semykina was published about Mamleev’s work. “On “contact with other worlds”: F.M. Dostoevsky and Yu.V. Mamleev” (Barnaul: Barnaul State Pedagogical University, 2007).
Laureate of the Literature Prize of the Union of Writers (2008)

• In the spirit of the twentieth century.

• Yes. It must be said that the entire world history can be called the history of cannibalism. Wars have always been going on, blood has been shed constantly, not to mention colonialism, the desire of some peoples to suppress and destroy others, and people are so used to this that they consider it normal. In fact, this is a terrible anomaly. No species destroys itself, except humans. Therefore, Christianity considers this world fallen, although man himself is of divine origin and, since he stands above nature, he has immortality. But this is not a reason for sadness, this is a challenge, a test. A person, despite the most terrible times, must remain a person, and a spiritual person, and live according to the principles of love.

Photo: from the personal archive of Yuri Mamleev

• How did you prepare yourself to begin to see the invisible part of the visible? What have you been reading?

Our circle at that time was interested in all aspects of a person’s spiritual life, especially since all this was semi-forbidden. But it is necessary to separate literary practice from religious quests. How to see the world through the eyes of writers and create your own space? This is inexplicable, it is born on its own. As for the religious search, for most of our circle it was clear that Orthodoxy is true Christianity, since it is turned to the original sources. But we treated Islam with great attention and respect and studied it too. As for philosophy, we followed a completely classical path: first German philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, then Russian. We were also incredibly enriched by our acquaintance with Indian philosophy; it far surpasses European philosophy in the depth of thought and knowledge of God.

• Tell us about your Yuzhinsky circle. It has now turned into a myth.

• How was life for you in America?

• Do you think there are people who are absolutely immune to things of a mystical nature?

• This is an anthropological question. In normal times, a significant part of people live simply everyday life, ordinary life. Now in the West there is such a thing as indifferentism. Indifference to religious issues. This is not atheism, atheism requires an attitude and a clear awareness of the absence of a higher power. But the whole world is filled with indifference. People are only interested in themselves, only in everyday life. But culture, politics and science have always been done by a minority.

• In ancient times, there were so-called secret sciences: astrology, alchemy, fortune telling and others. These were traditional hermeneutic sciences based on the simple fact of contact with the invisible world, which was easily achieved in the ancient world. Then there came a period when the curtain came down for a variety of reasons. And the keys to these sciences were lost. Occultism was born later, in the 17th–18th centuries, and meant a passion for these secret sciences. Occultism is, simply put, a profanation, although there were some glimmers of truth there. We have never been involved in the occult.

• Perhaps this is why the attitude towards death has changed so much?

• Undoubtedly. Somerset Maugham noted that at the end of the nineteenth century a turning point unexpectedly occurred. Before this, people died with a smile, full of faith and confidence that they were moving to another world and that there was nothing terrible about it. And then, with the spread of atheism and materialism regarding death, a completely terrible fear of non-existence, of disappearing forever, arose. Therefore, I believe that atheism is a trap that enslaves a person. Religion means love and victory over death, and atheism is the absolute triumph of death. And it is very strange that atheism in the Soviet Union was associated with optimism. This is absurd.

• But still, you yourself think that God is merciful...

• Certainly. But since the universe is designed in such a way that a person is given complete free will, he is able to choose the path opposite to salvation. That is, roughly speaking, a person condemns himself. It's the same as if a chronic criminal, a gloomy type, gets to a classical music concert - he won't last even five minutes there. And in the same way, a sinner in paradise is simply uncomfortable, he is accustomed to the atmosphere of evil and violence to which his nature attracts him. And the idea of ​​eternal hell is a clear exaggeration. Only God is eternal, hell is a temporary solution. Albeit a very unpleasant one.

The vast majority of the characters in your books strive for the beyond, but not through light methods, but through dark ones. Do you think that if a person goes through darkness, does it affect him?

There are different types of darkness too. Real darkness is that which does not allow a person to believe, leaving him in the position of an animal, this is even below the demonic level. But there is a certain mystery in man, because he is created in such a way that one part of him is directed upward, and the other goes down into dark space. Everything in a person is connected: both darkness and light. God gave man complete freedom, including the freedom to be a fighter against God. There is a position expressed in theological books: in order to find true light, one must know true darkness. Actually, this is a classic esoteric path. Literature is dangerous because, willy-nilly, when describing a person, you follow everything that is in the world. And there are things in the world that you can’t even dream of. Something like this should happen to my readers; through horror they experience catharsis and purification.

What advice would you give to those who have not yet experienced catharsis?

I would express this in the following triad: knowledge of personality, faith and homeland. What is it? Personality - you need to find yourself, explore the diversity of different aspects of existence. As for faith, without it a person dooms himself to complete cutoff, to helplessness - before death and after death. This is an absurd situation when a person has the image and likeness of God, but he refuses the best that is in him. We have many absurdities in life, but this is the most severe in its consequences. After all, the ultimate goal of the individual is victory over death. We lived at a time when there were still people who were born in historical Russia, and I asked them what the gap was between the people of their generation and ours. And the answer was clear: then people were more cheerful. All this is thanks to faith. And lastly, Motherland. Yes, patriotism has always been used by the authorities for their own purposes. But there is spiritual patriotism, patriotism of internal Russia, mystical. In the soul of every person his Russia is born.

Biography

Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev was born on December 11th in Moscow. In the city he graduated from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute and received an engineering degree. From 1957 to 1974 he taught mathematics in evening schools. But his main field of activity was literature. His stories, novels, and philosophical essays were distributed in Samizdat, since it was impossible to publish them in Soviet publishing houses. In the 60s, many figures (people) of the “unofficial culture” of that time gathered at his apartment on Yuzhinsky Lane. Among them are such poets and artists as Leonid Gubanov, Genrikh Sapgir, Lev Kropivnitsky, Alexander Kharitonov, later Veniamin Erofeev and many other now well-known representatives of the creative intelligentsia who have distinguished themselves in art, philosophy, and literature. Due to the impossibility of publishing his works, Yu. Mamleev emigrated with his wife to the USA in 1974, where he taught and worked at Cornell University, spoke at other prestigious universities in the USA, and later, in 1983, moved to Paris, to France, where he taught Russian literature and language at the Meudon Institute of Russian Culture, and then at the famous Institute of Oriental Civilizations in Paris. During the period of forced emigration, his works were translated into European languages, and his work received recognition in the West. After the regime change in Russia, Yuri Mamleev was one of the first to come to Russia. Since the beginning of the 90s, his books began to be widely published in Russia. During this time (from the early 1990s to 2008), 27 of his books were published, including books on philosophy, and many articles, interviews in the press, and appearances on radio and television appeared. At the same time, the publication of his books in the West continued. Many articles and studies about his work have appeared both in Western and Russian languages, diplomas and dissertations have been defended. Yuri Mamleev's plays were staged in Russia and at a festival in Austria, in Graz (in German). From 1994 to 1999, Yuri Mamleev, as an Indologist, taught Indian philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. He is a member of the executive committee of the Russian-Indian Friendship Society. He was also involved in social activities: he was a member of the Commission for the Return of Citizenship under the President of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the French Pen Club (an international organization of writers), the Union of Writers of Russia, the Union of Theater Workers, and the Russian Pen Club. He created a new literary movement (metaphysical realism), the foundations of which are outlined in the chapter “Metaphysics and Art” of his philosophical book “The Fate of Being”. The avant-garde of this movement is organized as a section under the Union of Writers of Russia, and Yu. Mamleev is the President of the Club of Metaphysical Realism of the Central House of Writers. As a philosopher, Yuri Mamleev, in addition to teaching Indian philosophy at Moscow State University, is known for his main philosophical works: “The Fate of Being” (published in the journal “Problems of Philosophy” for 1993 No. 10, 11 and then in the collection “Unio mystica”, Terra , 1997) and “Eternal Russia” (see “Eternal Russia”, Aif-print, 2002). In “The Fate of Being” Yu. Mamleev substantiated his own philosophical teaching. As an Indologist, he proceeded from some of the provisions of Vedanta (now recognized throughout the world as one of the peaks of human thought). But then Yu. Mamleev went beyond the boundaries of Vedanta, creating the doctrine of metadualism, especially in the chapter “The Last Doctrine,” which introduces something fundamentally new into the world metaphysical Tradition. In the book “Eternal Russia,” Yu. Mamleev explores the depths of Russian culture and spirit. As a result, he created a completely new interpretation of the Russian idea, in fact an integral philosophical and patriotic teaching that has no analogues anywhere. The work of Yu. Mamleev has been repeatedly awarded with various literary grants and prizes: in 2000 he received the highly prestigious Pushkin Prize (Germany), and the Andrei Bely International Prize (1993). You can read articles about Mamleev and his work in literary and other encyclopedias, dictionaries (including in foreign languages), in the encyclopedic dictionary “Fatherland” (RE publishing house, 1999), which includes the most prominent people of Russia in the field of culture and science , politics, etc. for the entire period of the existence of Rus' and Russia (from ancient times to the present). Mamleev's works were published in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hebrew, and Chinese. A study by Rosa Semykina was published about Mamleev’s work. “On “contact with other worlds”: F.M. Dostoevsky and Yu.V. Mamleev" (Barnaul: Barnaul State Pedagogical University, 2007). Laureate of the Literature Prize of the Union of Writers (2008).

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List of basic books in Russian

1. Yuri Mamleev. The wrong side of Gauguin. Third wave, Paris, 1982.

2. Yuri Mamleev. Living Death (collection of stories). The Third Wave, New York - Paris, 1986.

3. Yuri Mamleev. Connecting rods (novel). The Third Wave, New York - Paris, 1988.

4. Yuri Mamleev, Tatyana Goricheva. New city of Kitezh (philosophical works). Paris, 1988.

6. Yuri Mamleev. Storybook. Youth Book Center, Moscow, 1990.

7. Yuri Mamleev. Eternal Home (story and stories). Fiction, Moscow, 1991.

9. Yuri Mamleev. Favorites. Terra, Moscow, 1993.

10. Yuri Mamleev. Connecting rods (novel). Terra, Moscow, 1996.

11. Yuri Mamleev The fate of existence. “Unio mistica”, Terra, Moscow, 1997.

12. Yuri Mamleev. Black Mirror (collection of stories). Moscow, Vagrius, 1999.

13. Yuri Mamleev. Riot of the Moon (collection of stories). Moscow, Vagrius, 2000.

14. Yuri Mamleev. Black Mirror (re-release). Moscow, Vagrius, 2001.

15. Yuri Mamleev. Wandering Time (novel). Moscow – St. Petersburg, Limbus-press, 2001

16. Yuri Mamleev. Russia Eternal. Aif-print, Moscow, 2002.

17. Yuri Mamleev. The Inside Out of Gauguin (collection of stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2002.

18. Yuri Mamleev. Core Mysteries (collection of stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2002.

19. Yuri Mamleev. Core Mysteries (collection of stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2002.

20. Yuri Mamleev. Connecting rods (novel). Ad Marginum, Moscow, 2002.

21. Yuri Mamleev. The Pensive Killer (collection of stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2003.

22. Yuri Mamleev. American Stories (collection of short stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2003.

23. Yuri Mamleev. The end of the century (collection of stories). Vagrius, Moscow, 2003.

24. Yuri Mamleev. "Peace and Laughter" (novel). Vagrius, Moscow, 2003.

List of major publications in foreign languages

1. The sky above Hell and other stories. Taplinger, New York, 1980.

2. Iouri Mamleiev. Chatouny. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1986.

3. La derniere comedie. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1988.

4. Der Moder aus dem Nichts. Wien, Residenz Verlas, 1992.

5. The Pengnin book of new Russian writing. Russia'a Fleurs du Mal. Pengnin book, London, 1995 (Yuri Mamleyev. An individualist’s Notebook).

6. Russian Erzahler am Ende. Eine Anthologie. Berlin, Verleg, 1995.

7. Fleurs du mal. Albin Michel, Paris, 1997.

8. The Pengnin book of New Russian writing. USA, New York, 1997.

9. The same anthology was published in Holland (in Dutch).

10. Oi periqtdriakoi. Aqhna, Greece, 1993.

11. Il killer metafisico. Roma, Italy, Voland, 1997.

12. Chatouny (second edition, paper book, pocket edition). Paris, Le Serpent a Plumes, 1998.

13. Der Tod des Erotomanen. Solzburg-Wien, Residenz Verlas, 1998.

14. Connecting rods were released in Prague in 1998.

15. A collection of short stories was published in Yugoslavia in the 90s.

16. In addition, there are many publications in magazines in the USA, France, Germany, Australia, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

17. Flowers of Evil (anthology) - in Italian. Roma, Italy, Voland, 2003.

18. In October 2003, the German publishing house Surkamp published Yuri Mamleev’s novel “Wandering Time” in German.

About him

Rosa Semykina. About “contact with other worlds”: F.M. Dostoevsky and Yu.V. Mamleev (Barnaul: Barnaul State Pedagogical University, 2007).

Links

• Collected works of Mamleev on the Russian Virtual Library website
• Mamleev, Yuri Vitalievich in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• Metaphysical Realism Club Central House of Writers

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Whether it’s a book about the Earth in the future, which has turned into a branch of hell, or a story from Soviet times about a mother who cut her son’s hands for ruining a scarce carpet, so that they had to be amputated - the off-screen message is always the same: the world is supramaterial, Russia is a special, high country spirituality. In this matter Mamleev is a Slavophile. And the main dispute with modern Westerners is whether Russia two hundred years ago was a country of fanaticism and savagery, or a territory of holiness.

The stories in this collection complement the novel: “Universal Stories.” In the novel, two sisters (as opposed to three sisters, because they don’t want to go anywhere) join a spiritual circle. One of the participants, the writer Rumov, meets a strange foreigner - an adept of the Antichrist. The West responds warmly to the adept's lectures, but in Russia he will fail. The lecture scene in Moscow is the culmination of the absurd, during which a Satanist is offered to be bitten to check whether he is telling the truth.

The novel begins with a cheerful party and ends with a conversation about the future of Russia. I would like to agree with Mamleev’s optimistic view. Simply because if we don’t turn for the better in twenty years, it will become completely impossible to believe in goodness.

Yuri Mamleev. Universe stories: novel, short stories

The book by the apologist of metaphysical realism includes another apocalyptic novel and seven stories that vividly remind the reader of those very beloved “Connecting Rods” by metaphysicians. The novel looks like a sequel or prequel to the previous novel “After the End,” a text about what happens after the end of everything. “Father said - everything is over,” sings Leonid Fedorov in a new song. Mamleev's theme is an old, very old song. As soon as the Theologian wrote “Revelation,” people immediately heard these inhuman songs. But, in addition to his enormous interest in the “end of everything,” Yuri Vitalievich has an equally interesting, cross-cutting theme - the study of Russianness in the metaphysical aspect. There are people, and there are Russians. The novel “Universal Stories” is about simple American “technomystics” and our connecting rods. The differences between them are huge. Ours, although they are ghouls during periods of exacerbation, they cannot eat a person. Why not? Well, sometimes, depending on the mood, our connecting rod can eat someone, but only for the sake of curiosity, so that through familiarization with the death of another, through murder, he can find his own position (in death). There are even posthumous connecting rods, and in the new novel, in the picturesque episodes of Moscow kitchen esotericism, the Superdead Man appears.

In the first part of the novel, everything is simple, one Dutchman eats a Swiss, by mutual consent, and the Swiss eats himself, in honor of a new method of suicide. Mamleev’s humor, you understand, is completely different from Sorokin’s. But the intrigue of the novel, having passed through the traditional gatherings of metaphysicians in kitchens in the second part, in the third unexpectedly leads to a very interesting character, an American - a death specialist. This is a profession, a death specialist. Deathologist Allen is responsible in the novel for the demonic aspect of gnosis, furiously screaming about the unbearability of life: “I’m tired, tired of my ridiculous human body, which will soon rot, of this idiotic world created by mistake...”. In addition, Allen (the alien) is not a simple death specialist, but a messenger of dark power, the forerunner of the Antichrist. But our hero Rumov is also not a fool - he responds to the American’s “Dostoevsky” hysteria with a terrible verse - But in reality, like a vile and evil forgery, the antics of lips greedy for blood. I pray: disappear the iron god, a huge corpse that is slippery to the touch.

Allen, a special kind of techno-mystic, oversees what is valuable in America “from the Antichrist” - the institute of endless life, the House of the Immortals. And here is the most interesting thing - naturally, only multi-billionaires, ready to become cyborgs, clinging greedily to their last breath, but unaware of the clutches of which Beast they fall into, end up in this house. So imagine the attitude of the Russian mystic Rumov to such nonsense as endless physical life. Rubbish, pure anti-God rubbish. Even in the Comedy Club they laugh at such global rubbish, coveted by the entire alien, non-Russian world: cyborgs have filled the entire planet!

Writer and philosopher Yuri Mamleev, the creator of “metaphysical realism,” died on Sunday at the age of 84 in Moscow after a long illness. This was reported to the TASS agency by a literary critic who had close contact with Mamleev, Vladimir Bondarenko, and to Interfax by a friend of the writer, Sergei Shargunov.

Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev (December 11, 1931, Moscow - October 25, 2015) - Russian writer, playwright, poet and philosopher. Winner of the Andrei Bely Literary Prize (1991). President of the “Metaphysical Realism Club of the Central House of Writers”, member of the American, French and Russian Pen-Club, the Union of Writers, the Union of Writers and the Union of Playwrights of Russia. Founder of the literary movement “metaphysical realism” and the philosophical doctrine “Eternal Russia”. Mamleev's works have been translated into many European languages.

Born in Moscow. In 1956 he graduated from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute and received an engineering diploma. From 1957 to 1974 he taught mathematics in evening schools. But his main field of activity was literature. His stories, novels, and philosophical essays were distributed in Samizdat, since it was impossible to publish them in Soviet publishing houses. In the 60s, many figures (people) of the “unofficial culture” of that time gathered at his apartment on Yuzhinsky Lane. Among them are such poets and artists as Leonid Gubanov, Genrikh Sapgir, Lev Kropivnitsky, Alexander Kharitonov, later Venedikt Erofeev and many other now well-known representatives of the creative intelligentsia who have distinguished themselves in art, philosophy, and literature.

In 1974, together with his wife Maria Alexandrovna, he emigrated to the USA, where he taught and worked at Cornell University, spoke at other prestigious universities in the USA, and later, in 1983, moved to Paris, France, where he taught Russian literature and language at the Meudon Institute of Russian Culture, and then at the Institute of Oriental Civilizations in Paris. During the period of forced emigration, his works were translated into European languages, and his work received recognition in the West. In the Paris Literary Magazine in 1986, Dostoevsky scholar Jacques Catto wrote about Mamleev as a worthy heir to Gogol and Dostoevsky.

After the proclamation of the course towards democratization of society, he was one of the first to come to Russia. Since the early 1990s, his books have been widely published in Russia. During this time (from the early 1990s to 2008), 27 of his books were published, including books on philosophy, and many articles, interviews in the press, and appearances on radio and television appeared. At the same time, the publication of his books in the West continued. Many articles and studies about his work have appeared both in Western and Russian languages, diplomas and dissertations have been defended. Yuri Mamleev's plays were staged in Russia and at a festival in Austria, in Graz (in German). He was a member of the executive committee of the Russian-Indian Friendship Society. He was also involved in social activities: he was a member of the Commission for the Return of Citizenship under the President of the Russian Federation. He was a member of the French Pen Club (an international organization of writers), the Union of Writers of Russia, the Union of Theater Workers, and the Russian Pen Club. He created a new literary movement (metaphysical realism), the foundations of which are outlined in the chapter “Metaphysics and Art” of his philosophical book “The Fate of Being.” The avant-garde of this movement is organized as a section at the Union of Writers of Russia, and the writer becomes president of the Club of Metaphysical Realism of the Central House of Writers. From 1994 to 1999, as an Indologist, he taught Indian philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. The main philosophical works: “The Fate of Being” (published in the journal “Questions of Philosophy” for 1993 No. 10, 11 and then in the collection “Unio mistica”, Terra, 1997, later published as a separate publication) and “Eternal Russia”, published twice, most recently in 2011.

In “The Fate of Being” he substantiated his own philosophical teaching. As an Indologist, he proceeded from some of the provisions of Vedanta, but went beyond its limits, developing his own teaching. In the book “Eternal Russia” he explored the depths of Russian culture and spirit. As a result, he created a new interpretation of the Russian idea, in fact an integral philosophical and patriotic teaching.

The writer’s work was celebrated with various literary grants and prizes. In 2000, he received the Pushkin Prize (Germany), the Andrei Bely Prize (1993), the Literature Prize of the Union of Writers (2008), etc. He is also a holder of the state Order of Friendship for creativity and literary merits. Articles about the writer and his work are included in literary and other encyclopedias, dictionaries (including in foreign languages), in the encyclopedic dictionary “Fatherland” (RE publishing house, 1999), which includes the most prominent people of Russia in the field of culture, science, politics, etc. for the entire period of the existence of Rus' and Russia (from ancient times to the present). An author’s study by Rosa Semykina “On “contact with other worlds” was published about the writer’s work: F.M. Dostoevsky and Yu.V. Mamleev" (Barnaul: Barnaul State Pedagogical University, 2007).

The author's works have been published in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hebrew, and Chinese. In 2012, the author’s main philosophical work, “The Fate of Being,” was published in French.

Major works

Connecting Rods (novel, 1966)
The Fate of Genesis (1997) (Philosophical work)
Russia Eternal (1997) (Philosophical work)
Moscow Gambit (novel)
Peace and Laughter (novel)
Wings of Terror (novel)
Time Wandering (novel)
The Other (novel, 2006)
Alone with Russia (novel, 2009)
Empire of the Spirit (novel, 2011)
After the End (novel, 2011)
Universe Stories (novel, 2013)