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It embraced a range of ideas and artistic approaches that explored cosmic harmony. A transylvanian saxon, schwarz settled in moscow in 1776. Occultism was an element in soviet culture as well. New york conference, the occult in modern russian and soviet culture the occult in modern russian and soviet culture, international conference, fordham university, new york, june 2629, 1991. An intoxicating examination of the intense and distinctive relationship between russian culture and religious feeling, of the kind that flowered into exotic cults and occult beliefs in the late nineteenth century, seemed to go underground during the soviet union, and may now be emerging again in vladimir putins authoritarian regime. And now that he hears a calling, the voice of god from above.