PRIEST PAVEL FLORENSKY IN ABRAMTSEVO (for the 140th anniversary of his birth)

Monk Bartholomew

Chernyshev

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: 9581148@list.ru

Issue: № 4 (20), 2022

Pages: 115

Annotation

Priest Pavel Florensky 100-110 years ago visited the Mamontov estate, where the Abramtsevo State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve is now. He performed divine services in the manor church, communicated with the owners' family and their guests, participated in theological, philosophical and other discussions, corresponded with the owner of the estate A.S. Mamontova. In the family of A.S. Mamontova's heirs, oral traditions about the priest Pavel and 4 of his letters have been preserved. According to these sources, the author, a relative of A.S. Mamontova, shows the foresight of the priest Paul, manifested in several cases. The author also identifies two scientific positions of the priest Paul in the cited letters, namely: 1) about the afterlife of babies; 2) about the "spiritual idea" of a populated place on the example of Abramtsevо. The second scientific position of the priest Pavel Florensky is associated with the culturological theoretical position of academician D.S. Likhachev (1979) under the title "ecology of culture". These provisions of the priest Pavel Florensky and D.S. Likhachev are the theoretical justification of the past transfer of state museums located in monasteries to the management of the heads of these monasteries. Such a return of ownership of the Church was made in the Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, the Transfiguration of the Saviour Solovetsky Monastery, etc.. The theory of "spiritual idea" explains why under the management of A.S. Mamontova, who (according to the priest P. Florensky) was the bearer of "idea Abramtsevo", remained a significant cultural center. Then ideas of national significance continued to appear in it. After the arrest of A.S. Mamontova on political charges, the cultural center ceased to exist, and a few years later the museum was closed.

Keywords

Priest Pavel Florensk, Abramtsevo, foresight, culture ecology, museum, baby death

For citation

Monk Bartholomew (Chernyshev). Priest Pavel Florensky in Abramtsevo // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2022. № 4. Р. 115–130 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309– 5164–2022–4–115–130