Plato Philosophical Society
Plato
О нас
Академии
Конференции
Летние школы
Научные проекты
Диссертации
Тексты платоников
Исследования по платонизму
Справочные издания
Партнеры

МОО «Платоновское философское общество»
Универсум платоновской мысли
The Universe of Platonic Thought

XXXIV Международная конференция  ·  34th International Conference
22–23 июня 2026   Санкт-Петербург, Россия  ·  22–23 June 2026   St Petersburg, Russia

Русская версия Русская версия    ·    Log in
About Conference Program Abstracts Participation Fee
22 June 2026
Plenary Session
22 June 202611:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Moderator: Irina Protopopova

1. Irina Mochalova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Plato in the Academy: Philosophy and/or Science

2. Sergey Avanesov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Principia of Axiology in Plato

3. Marina Volf, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Director

'Modeling Models' in Plato: Myth as the Visualization of the Route of Philosophical Inquiry

4. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Missing Riddle of Raphael's "The School of Athens"

Workshop 1 “Platonic Dialogue and Ancient Science” (Part 1)
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Alexey Bogomolov, Konstantin Shevtsov

1. Gianluigi Segalerba, PhD; Institute for Philosophical Studies (Coimbra, Portugal), Researcher

Some notes on Plato's Theaetetus

2. Konstantin Shevtsov, DSc in Philosophy; St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia ( Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), senior research fellow

The organization of space in the myths of the dialogues Timaeus and Phaedo

3. Alexey Vladimirovich Bogomolov, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

Mythological Origins of Platonic Apophaticism: Ate as an Intimation of Non-Being

4. Alexei Krioukov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

"Imagination", "fantasy", "representation" in ancient philosophy

5. Alexei Garadja; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Hellenes

6. Elena Alymova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Asking Prodicus: The Problem of Correctness of Names in Plato

7. Svetlana Karavaeva, CSc in Philosophy; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Tragic Dimension of γῆρας: Sophocles, Euripides, Plato

8. Rostislav Dyomin; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

People of Plato: the case of Euphraeus of Ores

9. Vladimir Rokhmistrov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), graduate student

The concept of "nature" (φύσις) in antiquity

Workshop 2 “Russian Philosophy and Platonic Tradition”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Yuriy Tikheev, Artyom Gravin

1. Denis Shmelev; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Postgraduate

From Genius to Order: Roman "Pseudomorphosis" in N. Ya. Danilevsky's Philosophy of History

2. Yuriy Tikheev, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Plotinus in Russian Works on the History of Ancient Philosophy of the 19th Century

3. Sergey Ryapolov, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The aesthetic and ethical dimension of nature (as interpreted by A.F. Losev)

4. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

A. F. Losev’s Energy Symbolism: The Concept and Its Possible Interpretations

5. Oksana Egorova; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Fellow

Peripatetics in Russian Criticism and Bibliography: Reviews and Book Surveys (before 1917)

6. Timur Artemev, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Knowledge by Plato and His Followers in Russian Philosophy

7. Aleksander Shevtsov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The doctrine of epistemological unity in Plato and Nikolay O. Lossky

8. Daniil Dorofeev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Department of Philosophy, Professor

Plato and modern russian religious philosophy

9. Tatiana - Artemyeva, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Aristotle and the Axiological Model of Metaphysics in Russia during the Enlightenment

10. Alexander Alexandrovich Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Herodotus, Thucydides, and Karamzin in K.N. Batyushkov's poem «To the Creator of "The History of the Russian State"» (1818)

Workshop 3 “Platonism in the Philosophy of the 20th Century”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Ekaterina Gogleva, Bogdan Nediak

1. Ilya Vadimovich Kursenko; Université de Caen, Normandie (Caen, France), 3rd year PhD candidate

"Overcoming Plato" as a Structural Motif in European Intellectual History: War, Decadence, and Polemos at the Turn of the 20th Century

2. Sergei Levshin; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Senior Lecturer

E. Husserl on the emergence of Plato's idea of ​​philosophical science (based on "Erste Philosophie" lectures 1923/24).

3. Natalia Danilkina, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Is Mathematics the "Queen of Sciences"? Nicolai Hartmann's Argument

4. Ekaterina Gogleva; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The history of philosophy or "register of friends"? 

5. Irina Koptyakova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), postgraduate student

Nomoi and Ritournelles: Development of Territory through Refrain, Songs, and Choreography in Deleuze and Plato

6. Mohammed Ammar Hashim Abboodi; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Dialogue as Writing Beyond Genre: Plato and Maurice Blanchot

7. Nina Sergeevna Ishchenko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lugansk State Agrarian University named after K. E. Voroshilov (Lugansk, Russia), Assistant Professor

Bruno Latour vs. Plato: Deconstructing the Cave Myth

8. Artiom Abdulaevich Novikov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), 1st year undergraduate student

Plato the Collectivist and Plato the Individualist in Popper's Political Philosophy

9. Anna Shashkova; European University at St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Mimesis: From Plato to Theodor Adorno and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

10. Bogdan Leonidovich Nediak; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Problem of the Status of General Ideas in the Metaphysics of Plato and Henri Bergson

Workshop 4 “Platonism in the Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Eugene Makovetsky, Svetlana Kardinskaya

1. Tigran Tumanain, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Plato and the socio-political thought of medieval Islam

2. Igor Evlampiev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish components of the European worldview: European consciousness between science and mysticism

3. Maria Shemyakina; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), PhD student

The problem of the ineffable in the philosophical theology of ancient Platonism and early Christianity

4. Daria Viktorovna Voevoda; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The ideas of deification and Theosis in the ancient and Christian worldviews

5. Svetlana Vladlenovna Kardinskaya, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Human existence at the limit of time (from Plato's Dialogues to Marcus Aurelius's Meditations)

6. Mikhail Artemovich Vakhrushev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Natural philosophy in neoplatonism: between magic and science

7. Timur Shchukin, CSc in Philosophy; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Researcher

Origenistic Motives in John Philoponus' Interpretation of Gen. 1:9-10

8. Eugene A. Makovetsky, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The significance of paronyms in the theory of categories: How John Philoponus "lowered the philosophical sophistication and precision of the creator of metaphysics"

9. Mikhail Valentinivich Antonyuk; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

"Tree of Porphyry" as a proof of superiority of the Divine essence in the East Syriac Christian tradition

10. Elena Sobolnikova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Maria Sobolnikova; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The conceptual content of the term «mentis» in Bonaventure's philosophy

11. Rodion Savinov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Universum of incarnated Number: formation of cosmos and creation in Renaissance Platonism

Round Table “Ancient Physics”
22 June 20263:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderator: Eugene Afonasin

1. Eugene Afonasin, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Professor

Theophrastus on movement

2. Anna Afonasina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Assistant Professor

Physics as a spiritual excercise: Empedocles and the Stoics

3. Gamid Abdulganievich Magomedov; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Postgraduate

Empedocles' prologue to Physics and Plato's model of metempsychosis: structural parallels

4. Svetlana Viktorovna Mesyats, CSc in Philosophy; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Fellow

How can time be an image of eternity? Proclus' exegesis of Pato's definition of time in "Timaeus".

5. Eva Nechveeva; Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia), Postgraduate

The phenomenological turn in Aristoxenus’ Harmonics

6. Ivan Sergeevich Nepryakhin; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Assistant

Reception and Transformation of the Mythologeme of Chaos in Aristotle’s Physics

7. Oleg Albertovich Donskikh, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (Novosibirsk, Russia), Professor

The idea of unity in the formation of philosophy

Round Table “Hermeneutics of Classical Text as a Form of Philosophical Self-Identity”
22 June 20263:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderator: Roman Svetlov

1. Alexander Viktorovich Karpuk; Private educational institution of higher education «Moscow international academy» (Moscow, Russia), student; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master of Theology

Plato and Saint Augustine: time conceptions of "Timaeus" and "Confessiones"

2. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Strange Platonists - from Eratosthenes to Theodahadus

3. Aleksey Kalenda; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Assistant Professor

The problem of the criterion of truth in the polemic between Academic skeptics and Stoics

4. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Neoplatonic Interpretations of Plato’s Parmenides: The Problem of Exegetical Method

5. Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Platonism of multiplicity: Ficino's polemic against the Averroist doctrine of the unicity of intellect

6. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Yuliya Yur'evna Anokhina, CSc in Philology; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Phenomenology and Platonism in A. F. Losev's Philosophy of the Name

7. Irina Aleksandrovna Protopopova, CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Platonic Research Center (Moscow, Russia), Head; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Plato, Plotinus, Deleuze: the adventures of a simulacrum

8. Lada Tsypina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

"Paradox of the Coincidence of Plato and Kant" in Schopenhauer's Theory of Nature and Aesthetics

23 June 2026
Workshop 5 “Platonic Dialogue and Ancient Science” (Part 2)
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Pavel Likhter, Oleg Chulkov

1. Pavel Likhter, CSc in Law, Associate Professor; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato's "Laws" and Legal Positivism

2. Alexey Alexandrovich Zotkin, CSc in Political science; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

Three forms of Plato's ideal state in their unity and complementarity

3. Arsenij Makhnov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Daimon and chance: from Plato to Aristotle.

4. Sergey Slobodkovsky; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistant

The Religious Context of Virgil's Aeneid. The ambiguity of Aeneas.

5. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Hecateus of Abdera and Jews

6. Gleb Sergeevich Zemlyakov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Thesis of Parmenides “Being Is”: An Attempt at Formal-Logical Reconstruction

7. Oleg Chulkov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

On the issue of geographical localization of Islands of the Blessed

8. Vladimir Bliznekov, PhD; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Significance of Socrates' Daimonion in Platonic Theology and Metaphysics

9. Maximilian Neapolitanskiy; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Junior Research Fellow

Geographical imagination and knowledge in Plato's Phaedo: on the navigation of subterranean space

10. Vitaliy Vladislavovich Karimov; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Assistant

The form and structure of Plato's dialogues in the dramatic approach 

Workshop 6 “Platonic Tradition in the Late Antiquity”
23 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Aleksey Panteleev, Rustam Galanin

1. Sergey Levin; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), PhD student

Architectural Principles and Tasks of Eschatology

2. Igor Khmara; The Glinka Choral College (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Alexandrian philosophical school: educational practices and their context

3. Sergey Melnikov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher

Plato on Aristotle's insight and Porphyry on the "mind of Ammonius"

4. Maksim Sergeevich Nikulin, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Elements of Middle Platonic Noology in the Biblical Exegesis of Philo of Alexandria

5. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

The Mysterious Conciseness in Philo's Philosophy  

6. Maxim Prikhodko, CSc in Philosophy; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Harmony of the Soul in Philo of Alexandria and Origen

7. Aleksey D. Panteleev, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Origen and Ambrose: an intellectual and his benefactor

8. Fedor Borisovitch Shcherbakov, CSc in Philosophy; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg state transport university (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Associate Professor

Pythagorean arrhythmology in Gnostic allegoresis of the 1st-3rd centuries

9. Roman Kropotov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Invisible subject: is knowing of matter possible, according to Plotinus?

10. Olga Vassiljeva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

From convention to presence: Jamblichus' synthemata as existential indexes in logical pragmatism of Ch.S. Pierce

11. Oleg Nikolaevich Nogovitsin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher

The Neoplatonic theory of language and John Philoponus’ interpretation of the Genesis narrative of God’s acts of creation  

Workshop 7 “New Approaches to Platonic Studies”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Elena Alymova, Cyrill Novikov

1. Marina Grigoreva; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

The Dramaturgy of logos in Aristotle’s ethics

2. Сергей Сидоров, independent scholar

The development of ideas about morality, the state, and law from early Plato to his mature works

3.  Iulia Artemovna Ostapenko; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Student

From the Chariot of the Soul to the Transcendental Method: Plato, Kant, Yoga

4. Alexander Igorevich Kushtynov; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Student

Knowledge parity: knowledge of what exists

5. , independent scholar

Penia as a mythological basis for understanding of matter in Plato`s philosophy

6. Ludmila Polikarpova; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Independent scholar

The Heuristic Potential of Plato's Ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology for creative collaboration between philosophy, theology, and science 

7. Maksim Lukoshnikov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Euthyphro dilemma and Divine command theory

8. Irina Aleksandrovna Kartashova; Mediasophy, Rutube (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Film and TV director

Myriad eyes

9. Galiya Mikhailovna Makarova; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

"To be or not to be": rethinking Parmenides in the context of Platonic philosophy as the science of being.

10. Elizaveta Pereslavtceva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The formation of optical theory in Plato's Timaeus and Republic

11. Cyrill Novikov; The Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities (St. Petersburg, Russia), Applicant

The Neoplatonic origins of L. P. Karsavin's symphonic personality: the reception of Plotinus' philosophy.

12. Elizaveta Sergeevna Burchikova; The Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities (St. Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Herodotean Model of Moral-Historical Narrative in A.N. Radishchev's "Historical Song"

13.  Aleksei Dmitrievich Gruzdev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plato's political ethics

15. Irina Albertovna Khuziakhmetova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Master of Religious Studies

The category of "being" as overcoming the "incomprehensible" in the philosophy of S.L.Frank

16. Olga Grigorova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master's student

The etymological and culturological significance of the concept of "The Good," as reflected in the philosophies of Plato and Plotinus

17. Nino Zakroshvili; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Eschatological narratives in Plato's dialogues: Phaedo, Republic X, Timaeus

18. Fedor Alekseevich Kuznecov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

On Anaxagoras as a philosopher of consciousness

Workshop 8 “Platonism and Modern Science”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Alexander Savishchenko, Nikita Zverev

1. Artem Iakimenko, CSc in Theology; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; LRO Parish Church of St. Alexy the Man of God in Gorelovo, St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), priest

The road to reality in Ancient Metaphysics and Modern Science

2. Igor A. Baryshev, CSc in Technics; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Plato's existential programme with predecessing constructs of reality

3. Alexander Olegovich Gladkovsky; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Platonic Realism and the Nominalist foundations of scientific thought

4. Igor Kachanov; LTD "NordEnergoGroup Information Technologies" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Leading Researcher

Is the space of probabilities a mathematical projection of Plato's world of ideas?

5. Nikita Zverev; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

A Platonic Approach to Space: A Solution to Zeno's Aporia of the Flying Arrow

6. Alexander Nikolaevich Savishchenko; Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Platonic and Anti-Platonic Tendencies in Soviet Cybernetics

8. Dmitry Alekseyevich Kleopov; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent Researcher

Apology Plato, or The reasonable Effectiveness of Plato's Philosophy

Workshop 9 “Platonic Tradition in the History of Arts”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Daniil Baturin, Maksim Narovetskii

1. Alexandra Vasilievna Abakshina; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The theatricality of Plato's chora: receptacle, mimesis, scene.

2. Valeriya Ismiyeva, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; University of World Civilizations (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

On the concept of virtue in W. Shakespeare's Tragedy Hamlet and its interpretation in the context of the Ethical Teachings of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

3. Maksim Narovetskii; Department of Philosophy, FEB RAS (Vladivostok, Russia), Researcher

Typology of Nihilism: Plato’s Gorgias and Dostoevsky’s Demons

4. Alexandra Sergeevna Kosinskaya, CSc in Philology, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Алла Иванова; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), MA or MSc

Correlation between law, justice and power in Plato's "The State" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"

5. Daniil Antonovich Baturin, CSc in Philosophy; University of Tyumen (Tyumen, Russia), Associate Professor

The genealogy of philosophical-anthropological approaches to games: religious origins and research methodologies

6. Alexei Noskov; Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Medicine for the soul in the practice self-care

7. Anna Uspenskaya, DSc in Philology, Professor; Saint-Petersburg University of the humanities and social sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Professor Emeritus; Saint-Petersburg University of the humanities and social sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Professor Emeritus; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Antiquity in the creative destiny of A.A. Fet

8. Alexander Alexandrovich Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Stoic and Ironist Socrates in Vladimuir Mayakovsky’s “derision”

Workshop 10 “Platonism and Analytical Philosophy”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Eugene Malyshkin, Ivan Protopopov

1. Sergey Nikonenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Is it possible to study things without names? Commentary on Socrates' statement in "Cratylus" (438e)

2. Ivan Protopopov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Cognition of ideas and self-knowledge of the soul as the main task of philosophy in Plato

3. Sergey Leonidovich Katrechko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Foundation for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Head of Chair "Studies in Transcendental Philosophy"

Plato on the "method" of philosophy (metaphysics). How is meta-metaphysics possible?

4. Eugene Malyshkin, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

The concept of participation in Leibniz's metaphysics: another monadology

5. Aleksandra Sergeevna Nikulina, CSc in Philosophy; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent scholar

Plato's concept of participation as a precondition of theoretical knowledge

6. Konstantin Morozov; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Junior Research Fellow; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

Is It Possible to Naturalize Platonic Ethics?

7. Evgeny V. Zakablukovskiy, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

The method of the idea: the emergence of the concepts of noema and noesis in Plato and Aristotle

8. Lika Kareva; The University of Oklahoma (Norman, United States of America), MA or MSc; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent scholar (Moscow, Russia)

Argument and Whole: Plato's Mature Philosophical Method as the Nexus of Analytic and Dramatic Interpretations

9. Vitaliy Yuryevich Darenskiy, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lugansk State University named after Vladimir Dahl (Lugansk, Russia), Professor

The implicit Platonism of R. Descartes and J. Locke

10. Yulia D. Budman, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow; The Kosygin State University of Russia (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Philosophy of Language as a Reflection of Ethnic Identity

Closing Plenary Session
23 June 20265:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Moderator: Dmitry Kurdybaylo

1. Emiliano Mettini, CSc in Pedagogy, Associate Professor; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department

Narine Liparitovna Wiegel, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Noscow, Russia), Professor

The Multitude and Unity of Being: Plato's "Parmenides" and Quantum Physics

2. Kirill Prokopov; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

The Life of Inquiry in Plato’s Phaedo

3. Igor N. Zaitsev, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; European University at St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

"No one does evil voluntarily": Plato, Dostoevsky, and the problem of conscious evil

34th International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Plato the Architect of Sciences”

Elizaveta Sergeevna Burchikova; The Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities (St. Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Herodotean Model of Moral-Historical Narrative in A.N. Radishchev's "Historical Song"*

The article explores how Herodotus's "History" influenced Alexander Radishchev's unfinished poem "The Historical Song" (1797-1801). It examines three key aspects: how Herodotus's text became part of Radishchev's interests; the similarities in the structure and ideas of the two works; and the role of ancient moral language in the context of political censorship after exile. The author concludes that Radishchev borrowed not only individual plots from Herodotus, but also the entire model of historical and moral narration based on the opposition of "pride (hybris) and retribution (nemesis)," and used it as a means of allegorical expression of political ideas.

Keywords: Radishchev, Herodotus, "Historical Song", "History", reminiscence, reception of antiquity

A.N. Radishchev's poetic legacy has been studied much less than his prose, but the unfinished historical and philosophical poem "Historical Song" (1797-1801), created in Nemtsovo, is of particular interest. This is the only work by Radishchev where he explicitly cites Herodotus ("Irodot") as a source of historical information. This makes the poem a particularly interesting object for studying ancient references in 18th-century Russian literature.
Herodotus' influence on Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was indirect, through the French Enlightenment. During his studies at the University of Leipzig (1766-1771), Radishchev mastered the intellectual language of thinkers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Mably, and Helvetius. These authors systematically referred to Herodotus as a model of civil and morally instructive historical narratives. Since there was no complete Russian translation of Herodotus's "History" in the 18th century, it is likely that Radishchev read this work in French. Most likely, he used the translation by Pierre-Henri Larchet, published in 1786, which included extensive historical and critical commentary and was the most academic edition of "History" available to educated readers of the time. This way of perceiving Herodotus was not accidental, but rather a logical progression. This was how ancient texts were integrated into the intellectual landscape of Russian enlighteners in the second half of the 18th century.

The main research question is to analyze the parallelism between A. N. Radishchev's "Historical Song" and Herodotus' texts. The answer to this question is not limited to a simple plot borrowing. Radishchev did not adopt specific historical facts from Herodotus, but rather the very model of historical and moral narration based on the juxtaposition of hybris (pride, self-aggrandizement) and nemesis (inevitable retribution). In Herodotus' writings, this principle is illustrated through the fates of the great conquerors Cyrus, Cambyses, and Xerxes: each of them exceeds the limits set for humans and suffers a devastating defeat, which serves as a punishment for their pride. In "The Historical Song," Radishchev uses a similar structural logic to create a gallery of historical figures: Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his sanity due to his pride ("Thus the arrogance on the throne / Wrote the eternal judgment in the sky"); Sulla, who is portrayed as a "cold-blooded murderer" who took pleasure in the suffering of his citizens; and Alexander the Great, who represents a power that transgressed moral norms. In contrast to these tyrants, both texts present figures who embody civic virtue. In Herodotus's writings, it is Solon who warns Croesus about the futility of wealth and power. In the "Song of History," a similar image is embodied by Cincinnatus, who voluntarily relinquished his dictatorial powers and returned to farming, setting an example of true civic service.

 The structural similarities between the two texts extend beyond the system of imagery. Both authors share a belief that the moral qualities of a ruler have a direct impact on the fate of the state, and they both structure their works as chronicles of this influence. They seek to "rescue from oblivion" outstanding achievements: Herodotus begins his "History" with this statement; Radishchev opens his "Historical Song" with a similar declaration: "I do not read in the future.../But I see the past." Looking at the past in order to evaluate the present is Herodotus's method, which Radishchev consciously adopted.

 In conclusion, it is important to consider the specific historical context in which the poem was created. After ten years of exile in Siberia, which followed the publication of Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, Radishchev found it difficult to express his political views directly. Herodotus's concept of hybris and the inevitability of retribution for tyranny became a language of allegory. The images of Nebuchadnezzar, Sulla, and other Eastern despots had a clear connection to the idea of an "enlightened despot" who publicly espoused the principles of the Enlightenment while simultaneously violating them. In the poem, history acts as a "great court of time," replacing the direct political judgment that was impossible to carry out. In this sense, "The Historical Song" is not an academic study of ancient history, but a political text that follows the traditions of the "father of history."

 Thus, Radishchev's influence on Herodotus is structural and philosophical rather than factual. It is part of a broader educational tradition that views history as a "school for humanity." This case of reception is of interest both from the point of view of the history of Russian literature and for studying the mechanisms of transmission and reinterpretation of the ancient heritage in 18th-century European culture.

*  The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation № 25-28-02585, https://rscf.ru/en/project/25-28-02585/; Russian Christian Academy for Humanities named after Fyodor Dostoevsky.

© 2026 Plato Philosophical Society (Russia)