Voltaire is 330 years old!

The contribution of this thinker to world culture is difficult to overestimate. A prominent figure in the European Enlightenment, he determined not only the intellectual climate of his era, but also the development of ideas and arts in the following centuries. Voltaire was an exponent of the spirit of freethinking and, at the same time, a defender of social order. His prose and drama are full of vivid philosophical insights and caustic satire.

Voltaire's thought influenced many people and entire countries. The Russian Empress Catherine II also corresponded with him. She was deeply interested in his philosophical justifications of monarchy and the ideas of enlightened absolutism, striving to embody them in her reign. The philosopher himself called Catherine, in honor of the great ruler of antiquity, Semiramis of the North.

Students of the Patrice Lumumba RUDN University can get acquainted with the works of Voltaire in our library, where the legacy of the French philosopher is presented in all its diversity. Philosophers will be interested in his treatises on God and nature, sociologists and political scientists - on power and society. ⚖ Philologists can touch the beautiful language and deep thought of Voltaire's artistic work, and lawyers - his legal and human rights writings.

And articles by teachers of our university, available in the electronic resources of the scientific library, can help to understand Voltaire's ideas.