THE PROBLEM OF SANCTITY IN LIFE AND IN LITERATURE (TO THE DAY OF SLAVIC WRITING AND CULTURE)

Abstract

This article is devoted to research of an important problem in life and literature - the sanctity problem. The Russian literature as a spiritual phenomenon is impossible without statement of this problem. The best writers made the spiritual choice, followed the way of Christian development. It is especially characteristic for the Pushkin time - «Golden Age» of the Russian lyrics. The article considers the influence on the Pushkin’s personality and his works of his great contemporary, the metropolitan of Moscow Philaret. The metropolitan in his sermons, that were devoted to the memory of Saint Sergey of Radonezh whom he always deeply respected, steadily called each person for sanctity, considered sanctity as a duty of the orthodox Christian. The main ideas of the spiritual person found reflection in the poetic dialogue of the metropolitan Philaret and Pushkin about sanctity. Pushkin responded to these thoughts, the appeal to sanctity didn’t pass for him in vain and received reflection in poems and prose of the 1830s years.