Pilgrim Diaries as Sources of Spiritual Development of Russian Intelligentsia in the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Century Cover Image

Паломнические дневники как источники о духовном развитии русской интеллигенции в XIX — начале XX века
Pilgrim Diaries as Sources of Spiritual Development of Russian Intelligentsia in the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Century

Author(s): Maria Andreevna Balahonova, Vladimir Sergeevich Okolotin
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: military aristocracy; diaries; clergy; pilgrimage; art intelligentsia;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of a role of intelligentsia in the development of statehood and culture of Russia and foreign countries and values of religion in formation of world culture as well. The relevance of a subject is caused by revival of a pilgrimage of believers to the holy places which we see today, but which is shown in shape of the known tourism, unlike the previous period. The large role in it is played by Imperial Orthodox Palestinian society and also churches and monasteries because they move believers on a pilgrimage. According to the Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem, more than one million Russians annually visit the Holy Land, and it is expected that their stream will grow. In this research the purpose is set, using an integrated approach, to show a role of different categories of intelligentsia of Russia in the XIX — the beginning of the XX century (the military aristocracy — in formation of statehood, clergy — in strengthening of religion, the art intelligentsia — in cultural development). Within this purpose the following tasks are formulated: using an analytical method, by means of short characteristic of biographies of authors of sources to show their belonging to intelligentsia; to give critical evaluation to sources, having analyzed the concrete facts.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 91-104
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian