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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born on 18 March 1874 in Russia, into a world that would spend the next century testing his core conviction. He wrote as both philosopher and theologian, carving out a position that made the human person — not doctrine, not the collective — the site where meaning happens. His existentialism was explicitly Christian, concerned less with salvation's mechanics than with what it means to be free in a created order. He died on 24 March 1948, having lived through revolution and exile, his work a long argument that no system can bear the full weight of a soul.