Melikh Yulia Bilyalovna
– D.Sci. in philosophy, Professor, Chair of philosophy of natural faculties, Moscow State University
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The Old Patriotism «Reoriented to New Russia»: Eurasian conception of P.N.Savitski
The article and the attached letters P.N.Savitski exchanged with G.P.Struve and P.P.Suvchinski cover the principal guidelines of Savitski’s Eurasian conception that Savitski not only kept for 55 years but, after change of his mind, consistently applied to Soviet Russia. The author exposes the atmosphere of emigration in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. Renowned persons (M.Tsvetaeva, N.S.Trubetskoi, L.P.Karsavin etc.) are mentioned in the recollections. In an amazing way Savitski succeeded in combining an admiration for the Soviet Russia’s achievements with the impregnable faith in the Russian people’s religious feeling.Keywords: eurasian conception; russian emigration; soviet-russian messianism; westernization of Russia; world russification.