Christian values in the historiosophical concept of Alexey Remizov’s avant-garde book “S. P. R.-D.”

The article analyzes the monumental avant-garde work by A. M. Remizov based on materials from the archive of his wife, Serafima Pavlovna Remizova-Dovgello († 1943). Her initials form the title of the new book, entitled “S. P. R.-D.” (1945). Her manuscript has been preserved in Remizov’s archive at Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature and is currently published at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskiy Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In this work, various documents belonging to S. P. (her diaries, memoirs, letters, dream notes, business papers, etc.) are interspersed by Remizov’s own texts: his extensive comments on S. P.'s notes, memoirs, essays, excerpts from unpublished works. In the book, through the conventional outline of the biography of S. P. (in her youth, she was a member of the revolutionary movement, a follower of the traditions of the populists) Remizov examines and judges not only the bygone era of the Silver Age, but the Russian Revolution of 1917. The era of the Silver Age represented by its leaders (Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Alexander Blok, Andrey Bely) is characterized by him as an era of decadence, is subjected to harsh criticism for the departure of its masters from the moral, and above all, the Orthodox traditions of Russian literature. In his assessment of the revolution of 1917, Remizov emphasizes its anti-Christian character. According to the writer, Russia, having stepped on the revolutionary path, has moved away from its historical path - the path of its natural development, which is inseparably linked with Christian values.