Spiritual reality of N.P. Ogaryov (to the 210th anniversary of his birth)

December 2023 marks the 210th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (Ogarev, 1813-1877), whose life and work are written like a red thread in the annals of Russian culture. For a long time he was perceived only as a friend of A.I. Herzen, however, from the middle of the 20th century he began to reveal himself to us as a thinker, scientist, philosopher, economist, publicist, poet, composer, experimenter-entrepreneur, chemist, physician, teacher, mathematician and as a person. Through the prism of studying the fate of the Russian nobleman, we read the intellectual history of Russia and consider in a specific situation the state of history and man (spirituality, character of being, self-awareness, worldview, creativity, charity and patronage, the creation of a “model of the ideal world” of a nobleman, in which he realized himself as and a poet, philosopher, and as a connoisseur of art, and as an economist, entrepreneur-businessman). An article that examines the spiritual reality of N.P. Ogaryov as a cultural phenomenon, as the state of history and man in the mid-nineteenth century, expands the database of his life and work.