«The Sinai patericon» in Kuz’min's «Wings» (a Christian text in a non-Christian context)

In the article, the role and refraction of the Old Believer tradition in the modernist aesthetics of the synthesis of M. Kuzmin's "polar cultures" is examined. Analysis of the artistic rethinking of the plot from the Sinai Patericon in M. Kuzmin's novel The Wings (1905) suggests that the Christian monument is included by the writer in the context of Neoplatonism and assimilated in it.