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Тhе Ideal of Brotherhood in M.M. Prishvin’s Diaries and Fiction Created in 1914-1923
The article is devoted to the conception of ideal brotherhood in M.M. Prishvin’s diaries and works of ёction written during the WWI and in the years of revolution and post-revolutionary time. This subject has never been analyzed in special studies. Considering M.M. Prishvin’s diaries and ёction written in 1914–1923 we reveal the following subject: the way of individual who gets the experience of the discovery of the new world. We also reveal the story of salvation as coming through the “curtain” of enmity in his texts. We explore the connections between such concepts as “New Adam”, “Wanderer”, “Priesthood in the Daily World”, “Community”, “Brotherhood”, “Brotherly Line” and also between “New World”, “Church”, “Commune” and “Mir” (Community). The conclusion is made that the idea of the “New World” and “New Man” is conceptualized in M.M. Prishvin’s diaries in the context of the Gospel. It means the spiritual transformation of the person that helps to open the sacred Kitezh in everyday life. M.M. Prishvin’s understanding of the way to Kitezh as a kenotic way of personality is described; it implies belittling the “I” to reach “the Оther”. The concept of “intimate attention to the world” as the creation of brotherhood is clariёed. The author comes to the conclusion that the image of Brotherhood is conceptualized in the M.M. Prishvin’s works in two contextual aspects. The folk ideal of search of the Kitezh is included by M.M. Prishvin into the dialogue about the brotherhood as a “uni-multiple” reality that can be found in the works of Russian Christian personalists, such as A. Meier, А.Ukhtomskii, A. Gorsky, N. Setnitskii.