Russian Khranitel’stvo as Russian Understanding of Conservative Tradition

Abstract

“Russia, Russia! Keep yourself, keep yourself!..” – these very lines of the epigraph, taken from the poem by N.M. Rubtsov, reveal the main idea of the book by S.V. Perevezentsev and A.A. Shirinyants “Essays on the History of the Russian Khranitel’stvo”. The monograph of the two professors of Moscow University, who are well-known experts in the field of the history of Russian socio-political thought, in a sense sums up the preliminary results of their scientific research of the recent years devoted to the development and justification of the concept of “Russian Khranitel’stvo”. According to the authors “Khranitel’stvo” played an important role in the formation of the “national ideological and political tradition”, which was reflected in the works of Russian thinkers and political figures of the 11th–19th centuries. Therefore, the ideas of the Russian Khraniteli, – supporters of the unity of the historical and spiritual-political principles of Russian society and the state, run through the entire book, as well as through the entire history of Russia.