COMPARISON OF THE THEME OF RELIGION IN OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of interaction between two fundamental spheres of human experience — religion and culture. Among the many religious practices that found some reflection in Russian literature of the 19th century, a special place is occupied by Christianity and, in particular, Orthodoxy. The author describes both the various "mechanisms" of the influence of Orthodoxy on Russian culture, and the reasons for the contradictions that divided the representatives of the Orthodox Church and the Russian educated class in the 19th century. The article describes four "models" of interaction between Russian literature and the Christian tradition that developed during the 19th century: religious, intermediary, realistic and artistic.