Gnoseology of Andrej Belyj; The philosophically art-historical tract O smysle poznanija.

The author of the article mediates a remarkable tract of A. Belyj from 1916 O smysle poznanija. The philosophically art-historical tract, reacting to the ethical wondering of art at the climax of European war crisis, shows philosophical constants of art-historical concept of the noteworthy Russian writers during the European modernistic epoch. The tract bears the traces of the German philosopher-antroposopher R. Steiner; nevertheless it proves that A. Belyj, who sensitively perceived the era of of dissolution in ethic values at the beginning of 20. century, confessed the spiritual values of human existence and art-historic understanding. Through the idiomatic erutide language of the tract the emphasis of the deep-minded ?spiritual understending? can be recognized where the eastern thinking of ?eternal philosophy? (philosophia perrensis) and art-historical approaches and axioms of Russian philosophy are being connected. The author of the article coordinates Belyj´s accounts and observations with the similar ideas and opinions included in Gogol´sremarkable short story Portret, which at the very end changes into an ?essay on the sence of the art? because it ends in seeking for the ?inner sence? enabling us to understand ?the secret? of art creation. At that moment, in parallel with German romantic thinkers and writers, N. V. Gogol brought the hermeneutic dimension into the particular problems in understanding art (theory of H.-G. Gadamer). The hermeneutics dimension of disclosing the esoteric ?sence of understanding? can be especially in Belyj´s cogitations about the interconnection of three moments, stages of the process of understanding = inosculation of the phenomena or categories of imagination ? intuition ? inspiration.