On the question of the characterization of the religious and philosophical worldview of M. P. Pogodin

The article provides a historical and philosophical analysis of the ideological views of the historian and publicist Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin - one of the largest representatives of the Orthodox-Russian trend in the Russian thought of the era of Nicholas I. It is shown that, in spite of the apparent “scatteredness” and incompleteness of many undertakings, in the many years of the activity of M. P. Pogodin there is a united worldview - a consistent disclosure of the conservative position based on S. S. Uvarov's formula “Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationalism”. Relying on it, Pogodin reveals the originality of Russian history, acting as a “guardian and protector of public peace”. The assertion of the originality and nationalism of Russian history, in which “the eternal beginning, the Russian spirit”, providentialism, the special role of Orthodoxy are manifested - all this fundamentally divided him from the Westernizers. Pogodin's adherence to the ideas of Pan-Slavism, stemming from an understanding of Russia's historical mission in confronting the “revolutionary” civilization of the West with its formal political freedom, is presented in the article as an important stage in the development of the conservative views of a publicist.