Refusing to Love. The Paths of Russian Love from Pushkin to AI. Part I – The Golden Age

A journey through time to the origins of the phenomenon of Russian love.The book consists of three parts: the Golden Age, the Silver Age, and the Torn Age. The first part presents three vectors of Russian love. The Romantic vector of Russian love is based on Pushkin, Lermontov, and Alexei Tolstoy; the aspirations of reason and freedom are in Herzen, Turgenev, and Chernyshevsky; the immersion into the depths of the human soul is characteristic of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Chekhov.