The mystical sense of nature in M. M. Prishvin’s works within the space of philosophical and historical thought

Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates


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2024. Vol. 10. № 4 (40)

Title: 
The mystical sense of nature in M. M. Prishvin’s works within the space of philosophical and historical thought


For citation: Martyanova, S. A. (2024). The mystical sense of nature in M. M. Prishvin’s works within the space of philosophical and historical thought. Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates, 10(4), 58–69. https://doi.org/10.21684/2411-197X-2024-10-4-58-69

About the author:

Svetlana A. Martyanova,

Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Associated Professor, Head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Philology, Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs, Vladimir, Russia; martyanova62@list.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6917-0118



Abstract:

This article reveals the genesis of M. M. Prishvin’s religious identity and restores the features of his experience of nature as a temple in the historiographic space. The author identifies two circles of such sources: those contemporary to the writer and in the context of “great historical time.” Based on M. M. Prishvin’s Diaries, the author of the article compares the writer’s ideas with the religious and philosophical searches of E. N. Trubetskoy, reflected in the work Russia in Its Icon: the idea of unified creation, catholicity, including not only humans, but the natural world as well; the idea, embodied in Novgorod icons of the 11th and 15th c., in jewelry of the Demetrievsky Cathedral in Vladimir, and on the icon All Creation Rejoices in You, O Full of Grace. The article highlights the close relation of Prishvin’s and Trubetskoy’s ideas to V. S. Solovyov’s statements in the article “The General Meaning of Art.” In this article, V. M. Zhirmunsky’s book German Romanticism and Modern Mysticism (1914) is included into academic works on Prishvin. Prishvin’s understanding of nature is also considered as а part of Russian Franciscanism. This article analyzes the influence of Russian books on St. Francis on the writer’s artistic ideas. The results show the Christian nature of M. M. Prishvin’s God-seeking and creative ideas, their inclusion in the writer’s contemporary and cultural-historical context, going back to the “Hexaemeron,” the judgments of the holy fathers, medieval ideas about the world as a book, and reinforced by romantic insight.

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