Messianic motifs in the works of the poets of the Silver age (M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok, S.A. Esenin)

INTRODUCTION . Historiosophy is an important aspect of Silver Age poets’ work, in particular, M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok and S.A. Yesenin. The purpose of the study is to identify and conceptualize Messianic motifs (in their various manifestations) in the art of the above-mentioned authors in the context of Russian history in the first quarter of the 20th century. MATERIALS AND METHODS . The materials are the poems of M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok and S.A. Yesenin, containing historiographical issues. The comparative-historical, cultural-historical and system-typological methods of analysis are used in the course of the research. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION . Russian Messianism paradigm is revealed in the works of M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok and S.A. Yesenin, which has its own characteristic and original features, such as: antinomy and kenosis, sanctification and mysticism, Christ-likeness, mystery and sacrament of Rus-Russia, its liturgical and iconic-diaphanic nature, inclusiveness of Russian existence into the Biblical-Messianic dimension of sacred history. Russian Messianism is understood by these poets both in its historical and metahistorical projections. CONCLUSION . Russian descriptive features (Russian being, Russian history, Russian nature), presented in the poems of M.A. Voloshin, A.A. Blok and S.A. Yesenin in a historiosophical perspective, allow us to speak about the presence of the idea of Russian Messianism in the works of the above-mentioned poets.