Features of Russian orthodoxy as a historical and cultural phenomenon

In the present article the author considers features of the Russian Orthodoxy in various foreshortenings. His fundamental lines, such as an antinomichnost, binarity, conciliarity and a sophianic are considered. Besides, the author analyzes the historical periods of development of Orthodoxy in Russia, points to a paradoxicality of a ratio of spiritually rich people with various political regimes in our country. In article the emphasis is placed on the special attitude of Russians to an iconography which they build to a special pedestal. Analyzing modern society and defining the place of religion in him, the author addresses such actual definition for our contemporary as “the heterodox believer”, and also notes ability of nowadays existing Orthodoxy to play a significant role in a humanization of society. Need of the appeal to spiritual and moral values for education and education, both for a religious vector and in secular is in conclusion noted.