Prishvin and Durylin on the Sacred Places of Russia

Abstract

The article is dedicated to comparison of Prishvin s and Durylin s travelling essays made by them at the beginning of 20^th century across the sacred places of Russia as, for instance, the holy city Kitezh situated in the region of Nizhni Novgorod. At this time Prishvin as a Novice writer was former Marxist, influenced by Nietzsche and Rosanov, anticlericalist and rather Westernizer than Slavophile. On the contrary, Durylin is the orthodox intellectual, the historian of the Church and the theologian close to the circle of the Publishing House “Put’’ (Way). In spite of this, between Prishvin and Durylin there is not only the contrast but also the relative resemblance. Indeed in his life Prishvin moves to the orthodox Christianity, and Durylin appears as a talented artist in his essays under consideration.