PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY (IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN ARTISTIC CREATIVITY).

The purpose of the study is to trace the evolution of the philosophical concept of creativity in the Russian culture across different historical periods, based primarily on the systematic analysis of the attitudes towards the role of the Artist in Russian literature. According to the authors, the prophetic function of art was fundamental to the Russian literature and culture in general. Since the first monuments of the ancient Russian literature words had always strong impact on people and society, and this function has been saved with the advent of the Internet in Russia. This article deals with the main stages of changing the philosophical concept of artistic creativity in historical, community, cultural and social context. By the end of the 17(th) century when the role of the Artist had transformed from the "promoter" or "translator" of the God's divine ideas into the co-creator of the world, the nature of literary text continued to be sacred, and secular literature claimed the role of the spiritual authority of the nation. By the second half of the 18(th) century sublime poetry had become the benchmark against which the society had to rearrange itself. The so called Decembrist revolt of 1825 was a perfect illustration of how the philosophical ideas of the Romanticism, proclaimed on paper, influenced the Russian history and politics. In the mid-nineteenth century the literary works by Dostoevsky became the pinnacle of the idea of the writer as a teacher, prophet and spiritual authority. As a result of the revolutionary changes in Russia in 1917 the method of Socialist Realism in the 20(th) century was a clear example of how the literature or more broadly art could be used for political ends.