Essential features of the phenomenal stages of the national culture

The paper is devoted to defining the fundamental characteristics of the heyday periods of the national culture (leaps forward). The relevance of this article is that the dialectics of cultural dynamics is in a constant transition from past to present and future, and it requires a constant interpretation of the previous cultural experience. The study describes the following leaps forward in the history of Russian culture: the Christianization of Rus, the Russian pre-Renaissance, the Golden Age of Russian culture, the Russian spiritual Renaissance. Besides, the article reveals the essential features of the Thaw era as one of the most controversial and mysterious periods in the history of Russian culture. The author identifies that the Thaw epoch corresponds to the fundamental characteristics of the phenomenal periods of the national culture as well as confirms its unique nature. Moreover, the study defines a set of characteristics that is common to the heyday stages of the national culture. It includes multiple achievements of the era, the scope and significance of the achievements, the appearance of the universal creators, the celebration of human values.