TO THEMECHANISMS OF G.GREBENSTCHIKOFF’S LIFE-BUILDING: CHURAEVKA AS A REPLICA OF THE HERMITAGE OFSERGIUS OF RADONEZH

• Main Author: A. Yu. Gorbenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-11-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: g. d. grebenstchikoff, sergius of radonezh, life-building, life scenario, churaevka, receptoin, replica
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/256

The topicality of the research is conditioned both by the tempting role of Sergius of Radonezh’s biography reception in the creativity and life-building of G. Grebenstchikoff of the American period, and the insufficient degree of its study. The paper discussed the central manifestation of Grebenstchikoff’s life-building project – thevillageofChuraevkainConnecticut, theUSA, that he founded. Churaevka was presented by Grebenstchikoff as «a cultural hermitage», it is a peculiar palimpsest and it alludes to a number of cultural pretexts among which the hermitage of Sergius of Radonezh has the greatest semiotics and ideological importance. The paper deals with the mechanism of a semiotization of Churaevka, the process of its investment with the values which allowed its functioning as special type of text. The author comes to a conclusion that numerous autoprojections to Sergius of Radonezh’s figure served as the solution of the problems of Grebenstchikoff’s legitimation in the status of «the spiritual leader» of the Russian emigration and the builder of «the revived Russian culture», and also positioning Churaevka as a sacral center of emigration – «village-garden» and «the hermitage of Russian culture».