Keywords
Byzantine
West
Russia
Westernism
Slavophilism
empire
progress
conservatism
culture
religion
Christianity
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2021 is a jubilee year for the outstanding Russian philosopher, writer, publicist, literary critic Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev. Jubilee is by birth - 190 years, and by death - 130 years. An outstanding personality, contradictory in character, and in life, and in scientific and literary creativity. He was a doctor by education, a diplomat by vocation, a religious conservative and esthete by the mindset, and shortly before his death he took monastic vows. These features of his personality are reflected in this article.
K.N. Leontiev did not leave strictly systematized philosophical and political works. At the same time, he presented the concept of the historical and cultural process, in the focus of which he considered the future of Russia.
The central concept of the historiosophical concept of K.N. Leontiev - the concept of "Byzantism". He was the first to apply this term and introduced it into the system of philosophical concepts. The theoretical substantiation of Byzantist ideas and the possibility of their further development in new historical conditions was given by him in the work "Byzantine and Slavicism". K.N. Leontiev was a talented follower of N. Ya. Danilevsky, author of the famous work "Russia and Europe". K. Leontiev developed and substantiated the idea of cyclical development of states, peoples, cultures, put forward in this work. According to K.N. Leontiev, Russia, having adopted Orthodoxy, joined the Byzantine culture. Byzantine culture in Russia collided with a culture that was still in its infancy. Byzantineism created Russia, K. Leontiev concluded. The Byzantine idea of tsarism, that is, unrestricted autocratic power on Russian soil, was expressed in the idea of the Russian tribal monarchy as the organizing beginning of the people's life. Leontiev sees the roots of the Russian empire in this, but the significance of Byzantism lies not only in the formation of a strong statehood, but also in the formation of the culture of Russia.
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