At the roots of Russian Hermeneutics

The authoress is developing her project "The Russian hermeneutics", - she is making a study of the works of the Silber-age philosophers devoted to fiction. In this article she is trying to describe the hermeneutic's fore-going stage: she looks for it in the domain of the literary criticism and the philosophy of the second half of XIX century. The Dostoevsky's Study is the most important trend of the nativ hermeneutics. The autoress considers N. Mihailovsky, C. Leontjev, V. Solovjev and V. Rosanov as the direct fore-runner of the hermeneutic studies as such. The conclusion of these thinker about the new Dostoevsky's ethics and religion were taken by L. Shestov, D. Merezhkovsky, N. Berdjaev a.o. as a basis of their books and treatises. Their work as the interpretators was accompanied by developing of the "new religios mind's" principles.