Коктебельский мыслитель Максимилиан Волошин: над схваткой и вне партий

Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог. 2026. Т. 9. № 2. С. 11–37.

Kantor V.

This article paints a portrait of Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (1877–1932), one of the greatest creative figures of the Silver Age, equal in power to the geniuses of the Renaissance. A poet, art historian, and author of works on Surikov, Saryan, and Konchalovsky, poems about Russia, Archpriest Avvakum, Cain, and Our Lady of Vladimir, and articles on Blok, Verharn, and Ehrenburg, Voloshin lived and worked during a terrifying time, when European humanity entered the era of one of the most brutal world wars, and then the poet’s homeland collapsed into the abyss of revolution and civil war. Russia was divided into parties, into two warring factions — the Whites and the Reds. These factions were incredibly cruel to each other. As Voloshin wrote, political fighters, in the heat of battle, too easily divide questions into “yes” and “no” and, turning to someone passing by, exclaim, “Either with us or against us!”. However, they completely ignore the fact that this passerby may be for neither, and sometimes for both, and that, in all fairness, they cannot be accused of either. Voloshin believed that a free man, a poet, an artist, or a thinker, has absolutely no place amid the chaotic clashes of desires and opinions called politics. His work is an attempt to remain outside of party lines, to overcome the chaos of the fragmentation of Russian culture during a time of civil catastrophe. It was precisely this nonpartisanship that made Voloshin one of the greatest Russian poets and thinkers of the first third of the 20th century.

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Publication based on the results of: National philosophy and culture: spiritual and moral values (2025)