Тема старообрядчества в творчестве Н.В. Гоголя и В.А. Шарова

Abstract

This article attempts to discover and analyze the role of the ideas of the Old Believers in the work of N.V. Gogol (the idea of continuing the poem "Dead Souls") and V.A. Sharov (based on the novel "Return to Egypt"). This will allow for revealing the development of the philosophical, ethical and ideological views of the above writers. The relevance of the work is due to the appeal to the topic, which has recently been of interest to researchers, that is the connection between the work of N.V. Gogol with the Christian ideology of the Old Believers. In addition, the relevance determines the scientific interest in the topic of the Old Believers in the novel by V.A. Sharov "Return to Egypt", which contains a large number of intertextual and other connections with the poem "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol. The novelty of the article lies in the understanding of the available information about the schismatic runners in the literary plane: the connection between the poetics of the poem "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol and the novel "Return to Egypt" by V.A. Sharov with the ideology and religious practice of the Old Believers of the Begun sense. Through the prism of religious beliefs, the personality and work of N.V. Gogol, the correlation of Gogol's images and ideas is analyzed with the fate of the heroes of Sharov's novel "Return to Egypt". The influence of the Old Believers on forming cultural meanings in the context of Russian literature is identified. The following research methods were applied: historical and literary, typological, analytical and descriptive.