Alexander Labzin
Alexander Fyodorovich Labzin (Александр Фёдорович Лабзин; 1766–1825) was a leading figure of the Russian Enlightenment who developed an idiosyncratic mystical system and founded an influential St. Petersburg masonic lodge, ''The Dying Sphinx''. His wife Anna Labzina was a noted memoirist. Labzin attended the Moscow University, where he came to know two leading Freemasons, Ivan Schwarz and Nikolay Novikov. He curried favour with Emperor Paul by preparing a historical account of the Order of Malta and held a string of offices during his reign and that of his son, including Chief of the Navy Department and Vice President of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He also had time to translate Jakob Böhme and Pierre Beaumarchais, as well as write his own poetry. Labzin revived the tradition of Novikov's "libertine" magazines with "The Messenger of Sion", a religious monthly that celebrated a "religion of the heart" and rebelled against the ritualistic side of Orthodox ...
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Labzin Alexander Fyodorovich
Labzin is a Russian male surname. Its feminine counterpart is Labzina. It may refer to *Alexander Labzin (1766–1825), a leading figure of the Russian Enlightenment *Alexey Labzin (born 1978), Russian Paralympian athlete *Vladislav Labzin (born 1996), Russian football player {{surname Russian-language surnames ...
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