The destinies of the Russian spiritual tradition in domestic literature and art of the last third of the 19th century

2016–2018 The team of authors under the leadership of the Doctor of Philosophy, Professor A. L. Kazin prepared and published three volumes (III volumes in two parts) of the collective research “The fate of the Russian spiritual tradition in Russian literature and art”, chronologically covering 1917–2017. Everything The volume of this collective work dedicated to the Russian spiritual heritage in the conditions of the Soviet era are awarded the National Prize “The Best Editions of the Year”, as well as the Prize “Education through the Book” of the Russian Orthodox Church.
As a continuation of this publication, an author"s team under the guidance of prof. A. L. Kazin offers a collection of articles “The fate of the Russian spiritual tradition in Russian literature and art. 1870-1900.
Classics in the era of early modernity - this is the key methodological formula for the proposed labor. The main goal and novelty of the project is in a comparative analysis of the aspects of Russian artistic culture, dating back to the Orthodoxy, on the material of the main types of art - literature, music, painting and architecture of this period. The period of the 1870-1900s. In Russia, he was marked by the heyday of the work of F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy (with all the differences in their worldview positions), M.P. Mussorgsky and P. I. Tchaikovsky, I.E. Repin and V. I. Surikov. At the same time, domestic modernism is born as an ideological and artistic direction. Collections of poems “Russian Symbolists” by V. Ya. Bryusov appear, the music of A. N. Scriabin sounds, the first books of D. S. Merezhkovsky are published. Similar processes are observed in the field of philosophy and cultural studies. There is a struggle around national identity in the works of N. Ya. Danilevsky, K. N. Leontyeva, N. N. Insurance, V. S. Solovyov, V.V. Rozanov and other thought writers. The main goal of the proposed study is to identify its meaning-forming unity as a continuity in relation to the past and predetermine