Abstract

This paper is an original reconstruction of the Yelets text of the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov. The author draws up a map of Rozanov’s addresses in Yelets and conducts an intellectual plein air over them, inviting students to it. During an intellectual walk along provincial Yelets, an attempt is made to reconstruct Rozanov’s Yelets routes. Each place, marked during the plein air could be described by Rozanov in his texts. This form of academic dialogue is held for the first time and can serve as an alternative to traditional classroom forms of communication. The author sees the intellectual plein air as an attempt to capture and describe the images of the departing Yelets in the way the Russian philosopher might have seen it. Any timely fixation of the memory of Rozanov today turns out to be the correct tactical decision. The current Yelets is gradually giving in to the impulses of modernization. In addition to the intellectual temptations of new readings of Rozanov’s texts in the framework of this plein air, this form of academic dialogue, taken outside the framework of the university audience, solves another problem. The author considers new aesthetic horizons of the familiar ethnic landscape. Yelets expands anew, containing the memory of an outstanding representative of Russian culture, and becomes a part of world culture.

Highlights

  • The Russian province retains a unique cultural potential

  • In Yelets, there are still addresses that could have been visited by the Russian philosopher and remain unchanged to this day

  • More important for us was the actual availability of those addresses that were covered in the intellectual plein air

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Introduction

The Russian province retains a unique cultural potential. It is too speculative to represent the images of Russia, its past, present, and future only in large cities, the centers of the empire. Many representatives of Russian culture grew up in the provinces, creating a special intellectual tension there. Their work can be viewed in the context of the cultural memory of a particular place. In the Lipetsk region today one can see partial practices of the commemoration of famous secular and religious intellectuals, prompting discussions about their texts in the scientific community [2]. The teaching experience of the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919) is connected with Yelets, too. In 1887, he arrived in Yelets from Bryansk. Already having a proper intellectual background by that time, became a history and geography teacher in the Yelets grammar school

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