La revue Volšebnaja Gora [La Montagne Magique]

Founded in 1993 by Artur Medvedev, a RGGU graduate in History, during the political havoc of the immediate post-sovietic period, the journal Volšebnaja Gora had originally a “culturological” agenda, but rapidly evolved to acquire its present profile which can be qualified as mildly traditionalist. Sufism, Western and Eastern Mysticisms, Esoterism, Orthodox theology, Symbolism are the favorite focus of the thick 500/600 pages black volumes of this collection, which owe their specific tone to the collaboration of enlightened essayists as well as professional researchers looking for a less formal tribune than the academic journals. So far, fifteen volumes have been published, at an average rhythm of one volume a year. The Volšebnaja Gora journal has a “sister” publication program which, under the same name, offers monographs dedicated to Russian philosophy (Vancugov), to Alchemy (Gleb Butuzov), or sometimes translations of famous western orientalists (Henry Corbin).