PRIEST PAVEL FLORENSKY IN ABRAMTSEVO (to the 140th anniversary of his birth)
100-110 years ago priest Pavel Florensky visited the Mamontov estate, where the Abramtsevo State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve is located now. He performed divine services in the manor church, communicated with the owners' family and their guests, participated in theological, philosophical and other discussions, corresponded with the owner of the estate A.S. Mamontova. Oral traditions about the priest Pavel and 4 of his letters have been preserved in the family of A.S. Mamontova's heirs. According to these sources, the author, a relative of A.S. Mamontova, shows the clairvoyance of the priest Paul, manifested in several cases. The author also identifies two academical positions of the priest Paul in the cited letters, namely: 1) about the afterlife of babies; 2) about the "spiritual idea" of a populated place on the example of Abramtsevо. The second academical position of the priest Pavel Florensky is associated with the culturological theoretical position of academician D.S. Likhachev (1979) under the title "ecology of culture". These provisions of the priest Pavel Florensky and D.S. Likhachev are the theoretical justification of the past transfer of state museums located in monasteries to the management of the heads of these monasteries. Such a return of ownership of the Church was made in the Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, the Transfiguration of the Saviour Solovetsky Monastery, etc.. The theory of "spiritual idea" explains why Abramtsevo, under the management of A.S. Mamontova, remained a significant cultural and spiritual center and with Father Pavel's involvement kept bearing nationwide ideas mentioned in the article. After the arrest of A.S. Mamontova on political charges, the cultural center ceased to exist, and a few years later the museum was closed.