
	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Zhirtueva N.S. Modifications of the Byzantine Hesychasm in the Culture of Kievan Rus, Moscovian Rus and Medieval Crimea // Philosophy and Culture. 2015. № 6. P. 843-852. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66615 Zhirtueva N.S. Modifications of the Byzantine Hesychasm in the Culture of Kievan Rus, Moscovian Rus and Medieval Crimea Abstract: The subject under research is the process of the conveyance of the ideas of Byzantine hesychasm in the culture of the medieval Rus and Crimea. The author underlines that being a mystical teaching about 'divinization' of human, hesychasm expresses the inmost essence of Orthodoxy. Since the very times of Kievan Rus, hesychasm has been the essential part of the spitirual culture of Eastern Slavic peoples, thus contributing to the development of their sanctity ideal. In this article Zhirtueva examines the stages of the perception of the ideas of Byzantine hesychasm and creative interpretation of these ideas in Kievan Rus, Moscovian Rus and Tauris. The methodology of the research involves the comparative philosopho-theological analysis. The research methods include the comparative analytical method, analysis, synthesis, generalization, inidividuation and historical narrative. As a result of the research, the author concludes that the process of the conveyance of the ideas of Byzantine hesychasm underwent the two stages in medieval Rus and Crimea. In the VIIIth - XIth centuries the two centers of Byzantine hesychasm were created as a result of the aniconic movement. Those were the so called 'cave monasteries' of Tauris and Kiev Pechersk Lavra. In the XIVth - XVth the original school of 'Moscow hesychasm' (nestyazhatelstvo or the teaching of non-possession) was created due to 'hesychasm debates'. In Old Russia hesychasm was presented as ascetic hesychasm oriented at individual 'divinization' of human and political hesychasm aimed at realizing the ideal of the conciliar unity of the mankind. Keywords: Kiev Pechersk Lavra, sanctity ideal, prayer from the mind and heart, non-possession (nestyazhatelstvo), political hesychasm, divinization, hesychasm, Trinity Monastery, cave monasteries, Tauris This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Baranov I. A. O vosstanii Ioanna Gotskogo // Feodal'naya Tavrika. / I. A. Baranov.-K.: Naukova dumka, 1974.-S.151-162. 2. Borisov N. S. I svecha by ne ugasla...: Istoricheskiy portret Sergiya Radonezhskogo. / Nikolay Sergeevich Borisov.-M.: Molodaya gvardiya, 1990.-301 s. 3. Bubnova V. A. Nil Sorskiy: Istoricheskoe povestvovanie. / V. A. Bubnova.-SPb: b.i., 1992.-158 s. 4. Egorov A. A. 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Zhirtueva N.S. Modifications of the Byzantine Hesychasm in the Culture of Kievan Rus, Moscovian Rus and Medieval Crimea