The cosmos gift in Russian literature and philosophy. Experience of interdisciplinary research

The interdisciplinary article is devoted to the description and interpretation of the cosmos in Russian literature and philosophy of the 18th - 20th centuries. The task of the Author is to trace the change in the image of the cosmos, starting with the verses of Derzhavin and Pushkin and ending with interpretations of the cosmic principle in the theological (theological) model of the Universe. The novelty of the author’s approach is determined by the systemic correlation of the poetic and scientific picture of the world in Russian culture with its religious tradition, which goes back to the Orthodox understanding of nature as a divine gift and good. We are talking about qualitatively different ways of representing the universe as consonant chorus of animate and inanimate creatures, that forming a polyphony and at the same time a harmonious whole, realizing the plan of the Creator. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that the Orthodox-Russian civilization throughout the epoch of modernity resisted (and partly still resists) the identification of the believing mind with engineering and technical mind, initiated by Peter the Great in Russia. Despite on significant deviations from the original picture of a single creature universe in the direction of magism and technicism that occurred in Soviet Russia in the twentieth century, Russian culture remained in this the controversial time above the false antinomy “the temple or workshop”. If the post-Christian West clearly sees cosmos as “workshop”, and the traditional East sees in cosmos one of the illusory steps being, then for Russian thought and creativity cosmos is a meeting place of creator and creature, art and philosophy of the common cause. In this sense, Russian cosmism, both literary and philosophical, was one of the most characteristic phenomena of Russian national art and the knowledge of being.