F. Nietzsche's aesthetics in the discourse of Russian Nietzschean studies: historiographical review

The article examines the history of research analysis of artistic and aesthetic issues in Russian Nietzschean Studies in a comprehensive way. The relevance of the work is due to the objective importance and even fundamentality in Nietzsche’s philosophy of precisely aesthetic issues, which often find themselves on the periphery of the Nietzschean discourse or perceived truncated, based only on the first stage of the creative evolution of the German thinker. Methodologically, the study is based on analytical and systematic approaches, as well as the method of comparative classification. Three main stages in Russian Nietzschean Studies are reconstructed: spontaneous-romantic, Soviet-ideological, and post-Soviet. Within each of them, the main works are singled out, which dealt with the aesthetic problems in Nietzsche’s philosophy. The main semantic tori and strategies for evaluating Nietzsche’s aesthetic ideas, which are present in each work, are reproduced. In conclusion, the general tendencies in the analysis of the German thinker's aesthetics at each stage of Russian Nietzschean Studies are highlighted.