Justifying sub specie culture of justifying history in Russian religious and philosophical thought

V.F. Ern’s judgments about the logos tradition of Russian thought which determines the unity of its leaders’ approaches to indigenous worldview problems, open up the prospect of reconstructing ideas about the sense and tasks of culture in the line of Russian philosophy that is connected with the idea of justifying history. The author of the present study proves that, opposing historiosophical pessimism and catastrophism, Russian Christian thinkers put forward the task of Churchification all spheres and plans of life, understanding culture as an instrument for transforming the world. Philosophers contrast the processes of its secularization with the liturgization of cultural doing, which is considered in the context of the “possession of the earth” commandment. In this regard, N.F. Fedorov’s doctrine, who called for the transition from culture (as a symbolic resurrection) to recreature, i.e. the actual restoration of life, is of particular importance.