In his novel The Idiot, Dostoevsky made the ambiguous statement; “beauty will save the world”.
The quote puzzled many in the decades that followed, including novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who, in his Nobel Lecture in 1970, replied;
“What sort of a statement is that? For a long time I considered it mere words.
How could that be possible? When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything?
Ennobled, uplifted, yes - but whom has it saved?”
It is our mission to explore what Solzhenitsyn later conceded that it was a not a "careless phrase, but a prophecy" and the themes to ensure that this prophecy becomes a reality.