Intuition of Modernity. Essays on Russian culture

Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841–1911) - an outstanding Russian historian, public figure, teacher, chairman of the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University. The collection includes all his articles and speeches on the history of Russian culture. Many of his observations and conclusions sound today topically and instructive. These are, first of all, essays about historians, his teachers and colleagues - Soloviev, Buslaev, Tatishchev, Karamzin, Pogodin, Granovsky ... A significant number of essays are dedicated to writers and poets: several articles and speeches about Pushkin, articles about Fonvizin, Lermontov, Lermontov, Lermontov, Lermontov. Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov ... In his thoughts on Russian culture, Vasily Osipovich penetrated into the marvelous depth of man and the moral history of society. Russian fiction became for him a valuable historical source. The task of this collection is to show how the talent of a Russian historian is multifaceted, how great its influence on the morality of Russian society was at the end of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The book is completed by the aphorisms and thoughts of the historian about Russian culture, about the people of the past and its contemporaries, about the future of Russia