"Soul is higher and most precious" (170 anniversary of P. Astafiev)
The article presents an understanding by P.E. Astafiev the specifics of the Russian national character, its depth, versatility, energetic mobility, completeness, integrity and warmth of the inner life, along with perfect unable and unwilling to meet the challenges of foreign organizations, providing comfort and tranquility in the salvation of his soul, it is marked the relation of Russian philosophy with the peculiarities of the national identity. Appeal to the heritage of P.E. Astafiev revealed arguments criticism quasi-Christian utopia by V. Solovyov about the dispensation of "the kingdom of God on Earth" and debunking the positive values ​​of Russian nationality only as an official single element of humanity as a whole, which led V. Solovyov mainly to the proof of the weaknesses, shortcomings, and the futility of the Russian spirit, its lack of independence of the church and a small performance in the field of science, art, philosophy and Russian national contempt for native culture, to renounce their past.