Dostoevsky at the Edge of the 19th - 20th Centuries

Being undoubtedly the centre of the literary reception by the Silver Age, Dostoevsky was not perceived in the wholeness of his individual religious insight by this epoch. Its cultural figures, such as D.C. Merezhkovsky, Vyach. Ivanov, Andrej Bely and N. Berdyaev, inherited the ideology of characters in Dostoevsky' novels, and first of all his nihilists' and religious rebels' ideology, feeling psychologically akin to them. Dostoevsky's idea of Russia 's non-catastrophic path of development towards the religious renewal, and his devotion to the ancient church tradition of Isichazm were not adopted by their conscientiousness.