Watch book. Rilke R.M.

In 1899 and in 1900, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) visited Russia. The impressions of this journey led to the emergence of a “book of watches”, an extremely unusual work written on behalf of an Orthodox monk. In addition to the “Watch Book”, the real publication includes translations of other works by Rilke, Francis of Assisian and the Angelus Silezius, allowing to look more widely at the work of the German poet.

The mystical aspects of the work of Rilke, his attitude to the German mystical tradition and Russian Orthodoxy reveals the article “God Rilke”, to which the poet, translator and religious philosopher Vladimir Mikushevich pre -pre -preceded his translations.