Daniel Andreev
Daniil Andreyev, the son of Leonid Andreyev (a Russian writer of the start of the 20th century), had Maxim Gorky as his godfather. After the infant's mother, Aleksandra Mikhailovna (Veligorskaya) Andreyeva (a great-niece of Taras Shevchenko), died shortly after childbirth, Leonid Andreyev gave the infant Daniil to his late wife's sister, Elizabeth Mikhailovna Dobrova, to raise. This act had two important consequences: it meant that when Leonid Andreyev, like many other writers and intellectuals, left Russia (he emigrated to the newly independent Finland in December 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution), his young son remained behind; it also meant that Daniil was raised in a household that remained deeply religious.
Almost all works that Andreyev wrote before 1947, were destroyed by Ministry for State Security (MGB) as "anti-Soviet literature", including his novel Wanderers of Night about the spiritual opposition to the Soviet regime and atheism. Being imprisoned, however, Andreyev managed to restore some of his poems. He also tried to restore Wanderers of Night, but he could only restore a few pages of it. Also some works of his childhood were kept by his friend, including his first poems written at the age of 8.
His main book, "The Rose of the World", which contains a detailed description of numerous layers of spiritual reality that surround Earth, of the forthcoming religion called Roza Mira that will emerge and unite all people and states, and of the events of the future advent of Antichrist and his fall.
Daniil Andreyev (or Daniel Andreev) wrote most of his literary masterpiece - The Rose of the World in a Siberian prison with the help of one of the guards who provided paper and pencils. He was freed in 1956 and completed his book at home and passed away soon after. His mission was accomplished.
Almost all works that Andreyev wrote before 1947, were destroyed by Ministry for State Security (MGB) as "anti-Soviet literature", including his novel Wanderers of Night about the spiritual opposition to the Soviet regime and atheism. Being imprisoned, however, Andreyev managed to restore some of his poems. He also tried to restore Wanderers of Night, but he could only restore a few pages of it. Also some works of his childhood were kept by his friend, including his first poems written at the age of 8.
His main book, "The Rose of the World", which contains a detailed description of numerous layers of spiritual reality that surround Earth, of the forthcoming religion called Roza Mira that will emerge and unite all people and states, and of the events of the future advent of Antichrist and his fall.
Daniil Andreyev (or Daniel Andreev) wrote most of his literary masterpiece - The Rose of the World in a Siberian prison with the help of one of the guards who provided paper and pencils. He was freed in 1956 and completed his book at home and passed away soon after. His mission was accomplished.