CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE TEMPLE MUSEUM IN THE LIGHT OF RECONSTRUCTING THE CHURCH OF CHRIST NATIVITY ON THE SANDS IN ST. PETERSBURG THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE CONCEPT OF A MUSEUM-CATHEDRAL DEVELOPED BY N.F. FEDOROV

Lyubov N. Davydova

DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-2-44-54

Key words

museum, temple museum, Church of Christ Nativity on the Sands in St. Petersburg, conciliarity, museum-cathedral, museum cosmism, Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov.

Annotation

The purpose of this study is to show the conceptual foundations of the temple museum in the light of the reconstructing the Church of Christ Nativity on the Sands in St.­ Petersburg (St. Petersburg, 6-ya Sovetskaya str., 19, lit. A; architect P.E. Yegorov, 1781–1789) through the prism of the concept of a museum-cathedral developed by N.F. Fedorov (1829–1903).

The objectives of this study are to reveal the system of N.F. Fedorov’s views on the institute of a museum, to consider the cosmism of N.F. Fedorov’s philosophical views in relation to the institute of a museum, to throw light on the history of the Church of Christ Nativity on the Sands in St. Petersburg.

This paper reveals the system of views of a cosmist philosopher, a representative of the Russian religious and philosophical tradition N.F. Fedorov (1829–1903) on the institute of a museum, described in the article “The Museum, its meaning and purpose”, in the notes and supplement to the article “The Museum”, which we conventionally refer to as “Fedorov concept of a museum-cathedral”. The cosmism of Fedorov’s philosophical views is considered in relation to the museum institute, and the term “museum cosmism” is introduced into scientific use. The article covers the history of constructing and reconstructing the Church of Christ Nativity on the Sands in St. Petersburg. The article shows the conceptual foundations of the temple museum in the light of reconstructing the Church of Christ Nativity on the Sands in St. Petersburg (the museum as a temple – the temple as a museum).

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Information about the author

Lyubov N. Davydova – Head of the Department for Repair and Restoration Works, The Russian Ethnographic Museum, Russia, St. Petersburg (lubow.david@yandex.ru).

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Davydova L.N. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE TEMPLE MUSEUM IN THE LIGHT OF RECONSTRUCTING THE CHURCH OF CHRIST NATIVITY ON THE SANDS IN ST. PETERSBURG THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE CONCEPT OF A MUSEUM-CATHEDRAL DEVELOPED BY N.F. FEDOROV. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2021, no. 2, pp. 44–54. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-2-44-54 (in Russian).

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