Rasputin us. Creativity and citizenship writer

The next issue of the transfer of the author's chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin "Comment of the Week" was aired on the TV channel "Union" March 21, 2015. A few days ago has died Russian writer Valentin Rasputin. March 18th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill made the funeral of the writer in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior with a large gathering of people. Present and government officials, and many colleagues Valentin on creativity and civic activity. There were about two thousand people: people of different position, origin and different generations. They came to pay tribute to the writer and to pray for the repose of the departed servant of God Valentine. His Holiness the Patriarch said before the coffin Valentin's words: "The history of our Russian literature has identified a lot of great names. Writers who differ from the majority of people who write literary texts, we call a well-known, popular, great or outstanding. The latter definition is given only to those writers who left a special mark in the history of literature in the history of thought and in the spiritual history of his people. XX century, including the post-revolutionary period of our history, marked by the names of writers, of which we can say that they were great writers. They are quite a bit and still no consensus, any of them can be considered as the great final. But it is clear that Valentin Rasputin was one of the great Russian writers of the XX century ". His Holiness said that greatness is determined not only the beauty and accuracy of speech utterances, but by how the writer elevates the human soul, changing it for the better. Here is what was said by His Holiness: "Fiction becomes great when it raises the human spirit when it brings a person to the highest values, when it introduces a person into contact with these values. And literature, as well as culture, ceases to be literature and culture when they excite base passions that destroy the moral nature of man. Then we say that it is not culture and pseudo or anti-culture. " His Holiness said, and that between between true religion and true culture can not be any contradiction, because "they share the same goal-setting - the elevation of the human person. A conflict begins when a religion becomes a pseudo-religion and power, do not work on the elevation of the human person, and in the service of someone's political, ideological and other human interests, or when a culture ceases to work on the cultivation of the human person and destroys it. And how badly that sometimes people do not understand what happens at the intersection of anti-culture and religion or anti-religion, and genuine culture. " Today often say: the artist can be everything and attempt to morally evaluate the activities of the artist's alleged "immoral." But it is clear that culture - it is not just the brightness, creative genius of man. This correlating it with a certain mission. Around itself this mission fierce debate underway today. These arguments reflect certain power struggle. People who hate the very idea of ​​moral rigor, purity, hill, trying to impose a system of views, the opposite of these ideals. And they are trying to impose it is through the so-called creative - in the counterculture, pseudo-culture, anti-culture. We are trying to say that the most vivid manifestation of liberating the creative element of human passions. And this element is, supposedly the best that can only be in life, real happiness. But the culture, uplifting the soul of man here on earth, and opens the soul for eternity, is quite different. She did not indulge baser aspirations. It does not stimulate them, she cultivates the aspiration to the sky. Valentin Rasputin, perhaps only eventually be understood as the person who spoke about the Christian soul, formally rarely preached in his works, but talking about what still is the deep faith of our common people, which kept him despite all the hard times, all attempts to alter by force the will and the life of the people. Against these attempts Valentin played in different historical circumstances. Today, after the death of the writer took a few days, it is inconvenient, perhaps, to criticize him. And those critics who spoke disparagingly of him, offensive, several poumolkli too great strength and talent is too great a real sorrow of many people. The very fact that the writer came to say goodbye to the thousands of people - not only during the funeral service, but also to commit the rank of burial - says that the people heard the soul related to him by way of thinking of the writer. Therefore it is difficult today to argue with Rasputin. But instead of arguing, trying to emphasize the artistic merit of the works of Valentin and do not notice him citizenship. With this position today, by the way, and it is difficult to argue, because the country is gradually overcoming the opposite of what the writer acted as a citizen and as a public figure. Rasputin Creativity can not be separated from his civil position. This position has always been to protect the people, for the sake of which all must live in the state and in society, including the power, the economic structure of the elite, the informational component of social life. At the time, Valentin and in the context of fiction, and in the context of social activity awakened in the general reader sympathy to the Russian village, which fell victim to the economic processes - can be a very powerful and effective, but still associated with the radical, a tragic change lifestyle many people. Then the writer was not afraid to speak out against powerful gait of the Soviet economic system, which is being trampled image of a certain number of our fellow citizens. "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" has recently even called him a dissident. It is in a sense, it was back in the Soviet times, when advocated religiously motivated, hard-won way of life for centuries people in the face of advancing the dictates of economic power and economic feasibility. The soul of Rasputin's more important than money and more important economic power. The image of the people and the harmony of their relationships are very important to the life of Rasputin. Similarly, in 1990, he spoke out against the dominant tendencies in government and journalism by signing the so-called "Letter of seventy-four," the letter of Russian writers and other cultural figures, where it was said the following: "Russophobia in the media of the USSR media (note: it is was also speaking out against the Soviet authorities) now catch up and overtake overseas, the overseas propaganda. Russian people very often anoint "chauvinists", threatening other nations and peoples. For this false, mockingly rewritten Russian history, so that the protection of the Fatherland, St. heroics Russian patriotic feeling is treated as a "genetic" aggression, militarism self-sufficient. " And ended the letter here with these words: "Always remember the national dignity of the Great bequeathed to us by our glorious ancestors, thousands of years of history of Russia; daily keep in mind that we, Russian, - highly talented, brave hero, who knows the joy of intelligent, creative labor, the mighty spirit of the people. That "Russian character", "Russian heart" selfless devotion to truth Russian, Russian sense of justice, compassion, truth, and finally - indestructible, selfless Russian patriotism - all this and nobody ever can not be withdrawn from the treasury of the human spirit. " We remember that shortly after the publication of this letter to Valentin and other cultural figures who signed it, struck a wave of criticism. But Rasputin never changed his citizenship. It was the same, and at the time when the Soviet power was still relatively stable, and during perestroika and post-perestroika in time. Here is what was said by the late writer in an interview: "You have to remember the fate of the Russian intelligentsia, the phenomenon is really serious, anywhere in the world no longer held, and we went down in the flesh and blood of the people, and for a century and a half to serve him faithfully. And it was not just going to the people, but also the lives of the people, its moral and cultural education. It ended the service in the second half of the last century, unfortunately, sadly, and the word "intelligentsia" bashfully away with the language. " The power of those who today call themselves intellectuals, not less serious than the power of officials and businessmen. And in the 90 years that power was almost absolute. Rasputin is not afraid to speak critically, including in relation to the authorities, and again perform in the Russian man defense, which sometimes is not able to loudly on TV to say about his fate, but no less seriously affected by this, in cases where his will and his life break in two over his knee, changed due to the Project of certain pereustroiteley public life. The writer is always very respectful attitude to the secret inner feelings, to the spiritual world of believers. Of course, he was a Christian. In 2012, he put his signature under the first letter condemning the sacrilegious act in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. That's what it has been said: "To justify religious blasphemy, unceremoniously obelivat criminal ekstremistok, knowingly and intentionally committed a prepared act of abuse of the spiritual shrine of Russian Orthodoxy and the Russian people, can only be cynical leaders barbarism without a soul or love to Russia, nor respect for its thousand-year history - that is, they are "champions of democracy" have become complicit in this dirty ritual crime. Just as the 42 "cultural worker", signed a letter to Yeltsin, demanding the execution of the Supreme Council in October 1993, forever dishonored their names, the current advocates of moral abomination will enter the Russian history as haters of our faith and our spiritual foundation ... Original figures of Russian culture, true patriots and orthodox society does not have the moral right to remain silent and to remain indifferent to the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian-planned provocation. our conscience "That we do not allow. That's how the writer talked about everything that is dear to him, in spite of the ruling of the authorities or among the intelligentsia, in the culture medium or in media mood. And this is his artistic creativity and citizenship were united. It's hard to imagine him writing some texts in favor of those in power, or in favor of the sponsors, or for the sake of fashion get-together, which at some point expect any manifestations of political loyalty or just a trendy format, and the next moment will expect something or else. But under these divergent political vectors for these formats today adjusts a huge number of talented people. But people understand that sooner or later this talent is corrupt, and is often not in the service of man, which is recognized and serve as a gifted representative of his people. His Holiness said, standing at the grave of the great Russian writer "Valentin Rasputin became great in life, because all of his work is permeated by this desire to help a person find a different vision, raise it above the everyday. Although he used to do such a simple life and images of the human situation. But the soul of man is not formed under the influence of any individual extreme events, and in everyday life. " The great mission of the cultural figure in the case, when the culture is connected with the prophecy - to see in the human soul that was once laid, there may be many centuries ago, a deep Christian education, to help uncover it and find a new vision, open to this life meaning and to God. Eternal memory, the kingdom of heaven is deceased servant of God Valentin. Let us pray and work for the sake of our people are talented people heard his soul, express it, have changed it for the better and have found a response in the soul.