THE INTERPRETATION OF M.YU.LERMONTOV’S CREATIVE WORKS BY THE RELIGIOUS AND                                   PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: ONCEPTS, CONTROVERSIES,                                  FORMING TRADITIONS                      

Yurina Natalya Gennadyevna, Candidate of philosophical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of Russian and foreign literature, Mordovia State University named after N. P. Ogarev (Saransk), elya@sura.ru 

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The article is devoted to the problem of critical interpretation of Lermontov’s heritage at the end of XX–XXI centuries. The main point of our attention are conceptions about Lermontov created by V. S. Solovyov, V. V. Rozanov, D. S. Merezhkovsky. The author of the article presents and analyses different critical opinions and appraisals of Lermontov’s heritage, restores the picture of literarycritical contest at the end of XX–XXI centuries connected with Lermontov. The article identifies the contribution of religious-philosophic trend of Russian critique of 1890–1900 to studying and interpretation of Lermontov’s works and traditions. 

religious-philosophic critique, critical method, critical appraisal, literarycritical interpretation, literary polemics, critical conception, tradition.