Russian spiritual experience of M.P. Mussorgsky

The paper emphasizes that the processes of globalization, including in the field of culture, require close attention and analysis of the philosophical basis of national culture. Russian musical art of the second half of the 19th to early 20th century is a carrier of the axiological content of the cultural system. Music as a model of the Universe, as an important component of the spiritual world of the Russian people, is a specific way of seeing the world, through which they know themselves and the world as a whole. The author not only carries out a philosophical and cultural analysis of ideas of M.P. Mussorgsky as a representative of the Russian musical philosophical thought of the 19th century, but also shows the manifestations of these ideas in his works. It is concluded that the composer’s worldview clearly indicates his kinship with Russian socio-philosophical thought.