Spiritual realism as a creative method of contemporary literature

Along with realism and romanticism in modern literature it is possible to distinguish creative methods of postmodernism and spiritual realism. In our literary studies, there is a search for a term to denote the method of portraying life, in which the spiritual world acts as the highest reality. The term spiritual realism, which means putting Christian ideals into artistic form, has proved to be the most productive. Features of spiritual realism can be found not only in creative works of Boris Zaitsev and Ivan Shmelev, but also in works of V. Y. Shishkov, S. D. Drozhzhin, A. A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilev, Y. Kuznetsov, N. Rubtsov, V. Krupin and many other writers of the twentieth century and classics of the previous Russian literature.