Поиски бога в ранних дневниках Михаила Пришвина
The Search for God in Mikhail Prishvin’s Early Diaries

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the features of the religious and philosophical quests of Mikhail Mikhaylovich Prishvin. Based on material from the writer’s early diaries, the various stages of his search for the “correct faith” are traced. The cultural, historical and religious situation in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century is characterised. The specific features of the religious consciousness of the Russian intelligentsia are also analysed. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of the “eldership” and its significance in Russian literature. This comparison of Prishvin’s egodocumentary and artistic sources allows us to present specific aspects of his religious and philosophical thinking, and how Prishvin assimilated folk psychology and folk faith.

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