The heritage of Byzantinism in the context of rethinking problem of moral orientations in modern Russia

The article is devoted to actual date idea - the problem of returning to national roots, ethnic morality. In the author's opinion, the given direction is particularly important, because it concerns not only with the ways of entering into a modern civilization space, but also with the preservation of the original culture, rooted in the distant Byzantine era. This was the era that proclaimed the absolute superiority of the spiritual over the material and thereby authorized a fundamentally new system of values.