Ideologeme "Moscow-the third Rome" in the context of the national idea of Russia: cultural aspect

The focus of this work is the ideologeme «Moscow-the third Rome», which played a significant role in the historical and cultural development of Russia. Issued in the sixteenth century, in specific conditions, on the one hand, the death of Byzantium, on the other - the overthrow of the Mongol-Tatar yoke, this concept have observed a number of the essential features of Russian history and culture, which more clearly reflected in the wording of the Russian national idea, proposed by prominent philosophers and thinkers.