The Synthesis of Binary Oppositions in D.Merezhkovsky’s Religious Publicism

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Given the frequent set-up of modern publicism to the fixation (less often to analysis) of phenomena or facts, the study of the experience of past generations – the time when the functional spectrum of high-quality journalistic texts was modeled and implemented deep into the depth, rather than to the breadth, becomes of special significance. Revival requires a version of classical publicism which is able to form intellectual and moral narratives. It is these properties that prose symbolism of the Silver Age is endowed with. Because this artistic-ideological trend appeared at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, first of all, as a protest against positivist tendencies in science, artistic creation and public life, his experience is capable of opening new prospects for overcoming the «period of instability» in the publicism of our time.

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