Futurological Russian studies in the art world of K.D. Balmont and the religious philosophy of N.A. Berdyaev (ethos of retrospect and perspectives of domesticated time)

The authors compare the Russian studies reflections of the poet and the philosopher on the subject of thematization of the future of Russia. Balmont turns out to be significantly close to the involutionist type of Guenon traditionalism, which in principle leaves no intra-ethnic chances of renovation, while Berdyaev, staying in the paradigm of Modernity, hopes for the cultural and civilizational possibilities of the original Russian world that persist through historical catastrophes. The very in-depth and fundamental rapprochement of Balmont as a poet and writer with a large-scale religious and philosophical thematic scope and Berdyaev as a religious philosopher who works more in a literary manner and the style of emphasized expressionism is carried out here for the first time. Although the eschatological Russian studies, so obvious in each of them, simply could not be avoided in any serious and thorough study of the heritage of each of them individually, including by the authors of this article. It is interesting that, despite the undoubted closeness of these brightest contemporaries, two completely different and even opposite ethos appear before us. The proximity of their life worlds only emphasizes these diverging paths from a single garden, in this case - as two paths: to the past and to the future, and it cannot be said that one can be more significant than the other, because the future time will someday burn out in history, as well as the time of the past will remain in its inner perfection.