under catherine, further. so to speak, a lot was kept silent, one of the founders of slavophilism, ivan kirievskythe scale of activity, he was comparable to the american freemason franklin, well, the face is familiar to everyone from the hundred dollar bill, but at the same time... in our century, unfortunately, very few people know it, but this was a truly outstanding figure. several hundred titles of books were published on his direct initiative, a significant part of which are translations, and a significant part of which is just mystical and near-masonic literature, when catherine began to ban the activities of navekov, why now we will understand, then, in my opinion, half of those published were banned century-old books that related to the french enlightenment, but related to this very... in general, russian freemasonry, to some extent , published a history, the famous bethleophy, it is very difficult to judge, but nevertheless it seems to me that this was a feature of russian freemasonry, but if the prussians, at about the same time as under catherine, german freemasonry was very developed,