Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ethnotypology in the poem "The twelve" by Aleksandr Blok, article 2

The article shows that the complexity and inconsistency of Blok’s attitude to religion, Christ clearly echoes with the aspirations of Dostoevsky and his characters. Blok in his doubts and searching focuses not only on Dostoevsky's work, but on his personal, biographical experience, almost literally quoting the reflections of Dostoevsky. We study "the Karamazov complex", which has become the determining factor in Blok’s psychology, behavior, world outlook, "moral perfectionism" inherent to the poet. Following Dostoevsky in many respects and simultaneously disagree with him, Blok argues that new people and new culture can rise up only in the fire of revolution. It has been shown that in actions, words of the characters and author of the poem a "living image" of the idea "the end justifies the means" is brought to life, Dostoevsky believed it to be the most terrible and destructive idea of the present, prophetically foreseeing that entire 20 century will be developed under its aegis. According to Dostoevsky, a person who committed a terrible crime and ruined his soul can rise again if he would realize his guilt and pass through purification repentance. As for Blok, transformation of "criminal murder for motive of jealousy" into "ideological murder" prevented this process in the mind of his character Petrukha. Dostoevsky's idea of "Russian socialism" as a world unity in the name of Christ determined representation of the universal scale of events and appearance of Christ image ahead of the twelve.