Russian Nietzsche

Abstract

The article studies the interpreting of F. Nietzsche’s works and biography as the religious phenomen by the Silber Age thinkers (Shestov, Merezhkovsky, Berdjaev, Ivanov). At the same time the article’s autoress elaborates the concept “postnietzschean Christianity” – that is “new religious mind” penetrated by the nietzschean intuitions and ideas. Merezhkovsky was the fi rst who projected the connecting Christianity and paganism in the perspective of Second Christ’s coming; he proclaimed Nietzsche as the innovatory Christ’s follower. Ivanov borrowed the Nietzsche’s neopaganish motive and sketched something as the Dionysian mystic-theologian theory. Shestov was the founder of the nietzschean studies in Russia. He created the Nietzsche’s image as the religious teacher, who has opened the new way to God. The postnietzschean Christianity was the decadent neopaganish project: this thesis is being proved not only by the texts of the religious thinkers, but with taking into account their biographies.