“Russia of holy Russia” by Boris Zaytsev: the structure of ideal

The article deals with the integrative mythologem “Russia of Holy Russia” concentrating the biographic, worldview, philosophical and religious, artistic factors based on the fictional works and journalism of B.K. Zaytsev. There are used the data of the humanitarian geography and the study of M. Eliade about hierophany for the explanation of nature and the structure of the writer’s ideal.