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In his work as both philosopher and poet, Vladimir Solov'ev is motivated by seemingly contradictory desires: to apprehend in the world a higher, mystical "total–unity" that lends coherence and meaning to our lives, and to assert the validity of otherness, of the varieties of individual experience in this world. Throughout Solov'ev struggles with the possibilities inherent in available intellectual discourses–scientific, poetic, philosophical, and religious–to arrive at that combination of conceptualization and sensory experience that he called "thinking" total-unity. His historical revaluation of erotic love,The Meaning of Love(Smysl liubvi, 1892-1894), is a pivotal work in this quest. In addition to its well–known arguments in defense of erotic love, this essay focuses on the problem of discourse and its role in articulating and conceptualizing the mystical or revealed knowledge that eludes sense and reason.

Part I: Framing Russia's Regions -- The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000 -- Provinces, Regions, Circles, Grids: How Literature Has Shaped Russian Geographical Identity -- Part II: Rethinking European Russian Identities -- Militarized Memory: Patriotic Re-branding in Post-Soviet Pskov -- Wayfinding, Map-making and the Holy Springs of the Orel Region -- How is Voronezh not Paris? -- City Branding in the Russian Provinces -- Part III: Russian Identities in the Urals -- The Strange Case of a Regional Cultural Revolution: Sverdlovsk in the Perestroika Years -- Enchanted Geographies: Aleksei Ivanov and the Aesthetic Management of Ural Regional Identity -- Part IV: Russian Identities in Siberia -- Siberian Regional Identity: Self-perception, Solidarity, or Political Claim? -- Tomsk Regional Identity and the Legacy of the Gulag and Stalinist Repression -- Part V: Regional Identities outside the Orthodox Zone -- National Identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan: Orthodox Missionaries in Twenty-First Century Tatar Literature and Film -- Women, Memory, and Resistance: Dealing with the Soviet Past in the Volga-Ural Region -- Why Does Russia Need Hadji Murat's Head? -- Hadji Murat, Dagestani Identity, and Russia's Colonial Exploits.