Russian "spiritual creativity" in modern cultural heritage

The article discusses two vectors of the phenomenon of spiritual creativity in the history of the European intellectual tradition. It forms some general force field: first, the fate of spiritual creativity as the contemplation of "another region" in contemporary culture, and, secondly, "spiritual creativity" (note the quotation marks!) as a very strong personal construction that lives and works in the real world. It is more important for the creative person the ability of high-quality investment in the future than personal glory or other benefits. "Creative person" are the Creators of real existence and they think they are obliged people, doing everything for them. Today we can name a lot of Russian "creative persons ", who were not just worried their history, but created history, attaching to their acts different people obsessed with their ideas and who were able to leave something to people. The Authors and Leaders, Makers and Doers, "Builders" and "Perpetrators" - they are all to some extent not only dreamers, but also creators of new life, true "creative persons". We want to name two great Russians: Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev (1813-1877) and Ivan An-dreevich Arapov (1844-1913), who lived and worked in the XIXth century in the same area (one in Insarsky County, in Old Akshino village former Penza province, another - in Voskresenskaya Lashma (later Arapovo), a former Narovchat district of Penza province, now in Kovylkino town, the Republic of Mordovia). Two noblemen, two masters, two landowners, who owned land, country estates, farmers. They are two powerful businessmen-reformers, each of them in their own sphere. They are two Russian "creative persons" who have created the good, the beauty, prosperity Old Akshino in Ogarev life - is like an original "Mecca", where he raised not only himself to human life, but tried to attach to the high spirituality everybody who lived nearby and in the neighborhood, creating a diverse spiritual reality. He opened a school, a hospital, a chemical laboratory, he studied science and music and poetry (Cm. 3). Arapov turned his estate into "high-yield diversified industry" in Voskresenskaya Lashma which made him famous all over Russia: factories, mills, dairies, sheep, pigs, breeding of English thoroughbreds, trade in salt, wine, wheat, etc. Arapov was elected a member of the Council of the Minister of agriculture and state property. He was also a brave warrior, for participation in the battles he got 4 international and 5 domestic orders. In 1896 through the Arapovo station (now Kovylkino), due to his worries about the change of route, trains went. He gave lands, his forest for sleepers and the road began to work. It is the Central highway between Moscow and Samara nowadays. Both of them were the Creators of new life, creating their emotional and semantic loading, their history, their symbolism. They left a rich cultural heritage, which is being actively studied with the attempt of revival.

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