СОФИЙНАЯ ТЕМА В ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННО-ФИЛОСОФСКОМ НАСЛЕДИИ ВАЛЕРИАНА МУРАВЬЕВА: ОТ МИСТЕРИИ «СОФИЯ И КИТОВРАС» К РОМАНУ «ОСТРОВ БУЯН»
A SOPHIANIC THEME IN THE ARTISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL HERITAGE OF VALERIAN MURAVYOV: FROM THE MYSTERIES OF “SOPHIA AND THE CENTAUR” TO THE NOVEL “THE ISLAND OF BUYAN”

Summary/Abstract: The sophianic theme, inherent to the Russian religious and philosophical thought of the late 19th — first third of the 20th century, is for the first time envisaged in the article in its relation to the artistic and philosophical creativity of Valerian Nikolayevich Muravyov (1885–1930). In the philosophical mystery “Sofia and the Centaur” (1921–1925) Muravyov brings together two lines of the sofiological theme — theological and artistic ones. Sophia appears in the pages of the mystery as an ideal image of the world and man, and at the same time her image is associated with the theme of the meaning of love, with the ethics of the transformed Eros. It is shown how the key scene of the mystery, the prayer to Sofia of all nature and all mankind followed by the common goal of transformation of the world, evolves into other artistic plans of Muravyov, and is reflected in the sketches of the fairy tale “The Captive Kingdom” (1925) and in the unpublished novel “The Island Buyan” (1926–1928). In the light of the Sofia plot the drama of the philosopher “Adviser for Death” (1927–1928) is considered. The autobiographical origins of the sophiology of Muravyov are revealed.

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