Russian culture of the XIX century: Personality and era

The clash of "Serving the idea" and comfort, the aesthetics of "civil tears" and the game with a brush", the need to enlighten and "cold" of the progress of science and technology leading to extinction from the boredom of monotony - the issues of the departed "belonging to Russia" of the 19th century. On the one hand, they went into the category of "eternal", and on the other (perhaps therefore), in new clothes they appear in our time. In the center of the grandiose polyphony of Russian culture of the 19th century is a personality that puts forward fundamental ideas and comprehend the tragic contradictions of the surrounding life in musical and art forms that formed the basis of Russian classical art