F. M. Dostoyevsky's attitude to religion and the image of Christ (evidence from the diary entries and novel "The idiot" by F. M. Dostoevsky)

The article discusses the attitude of F. M. Dostoevsky to the image of Christ, Christian denominations on the example of individual diary entries and the image of Prince Myshkin from the novel "The Idiot". We have analyzed the understanding of Orthodoxy and Catholicism, the complexity and richness of the philosophical and moral stand of the writer in relation to the image of God and religion. The writer associates the name of Christ with the recognition of the eternal existence of the world and the human in it, and with the fact that everything material has its ultimate finiteness. Dostoevsky discourses upon the boundless faith in Christ and admiration for him, the depth of the human soul. He is astonished by the duality of a human, who can sacrifice conscience and goodness to a passing moment, a desire to assert himself in the material world. The axiom of sacred quest was the basis of F. Dostoevsky’s artistic creativity.