Silver Age of Russian culture is considered one of the most refined periods.According to Berdyaev, after a period of decline, it was the stage of recovery of philosophy and poetry.The spiritual life of the Silver Age was seen as an exceptional phenomenon, reflects the completion of the historical cycle and marks the beginning of a completely new era.
In the nineties I X X century, after the depression and stagnation, began a burst of energy in the works.That's why the eighties prepared the ground for the decadent nineties.At the end of the century X × I currently started to say new trends, identify new mechanisms of their development.One of the new directions has become the vanguard.Accompanied by a kind of avant-garde uselessness, "unfulfilled".It strengthens their drama, the original disharmony with the outside world, which they carried in themselves.
Silver Age of Russian culture was characterized by a kind of synthesis of all the arts.D. Merezhkovsky referred to three main elements specific to the turn of the century.These he attributed characters mystical content and the development of artistic sensibility.Silver Age in literature was reflected in the transition from realism to symbolism.
In the first decade of the twentieth century in the country there are so many poets that I passed X X century in comparison with this period seems deserted.Silver Age of Russian culture is considered to be difficult and tumultuous time.This era was characterized by the coexistence of different trends and tendencies.Many of them were transient, ephemeral.
second decade of the twentieth century began with the entry into the literature of the greatest poets and prose writers: Boris Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, S. Yesenin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexei Tolstoy.The symbolism is replaced by other currents, but its features are seen in areas such as Acmeism, futurism, novokrestyanskaya poetry.
Silver Age of Russian culture is celebrated and new styles of architecture: neoclassical, new Russian style of Art Nouveau.For the architects of that time an architectural idea was organic connection between the shape, design and materials.At the same time the aspiration to the synthesis of the arts.Thus, the visible components in the architecture of sculpture, painting.
Despite the fact that the avant-garde in Russia, for that matter, in the West, sought to absolute 'I' in the works, antisocial, social cultural Russian soil had a significant impact on the work of the avant-garde.Before the vanguard of the task was to express spiritual "absolutes" in the respective depths of the psyche forms.
Cultural history in this period is the result of a rather complex way.Most of the mature areas, circles, currents proved unstable.This, according to some authors, confirmed decay began culture, its end.
need for a fundamentally new artistic and scientific interpretation of reality established in the public consciousness.His influence was and is religious, and philosophical quest, becoming the liberal tradition of state orienteering reform and development, the formation of a new type of cultural sphere.
Silver Age in Russia was the era of famous poets, writers, painters, philosophers, artists and composers.During this period, no national culture, in addition to Russian, has not experienced such a meteoric rise.Beginning of the twentieth century is characterized as a fusion of romanticism and realism, flight of fantasy and science, dreams and reality, the proper and real, present and past.This is a unique period.This time differently perceived by various cultural figures.According to some authors, this is the era of the formation of a new mentality, the birth of a religious philosophical Renaissance, liberation from social thinking and politics.