26 Context and Reflection: Philosophy of the World and Human Being. 5-6`2013 / UDC 141 Nikolai Fedorov – founder of the Russian cosmism http://publishing-vak.ru ) u Volkov Vladimir Nikolaevich Full Doctor of Philosophy, professor of the department of management, socio-cultural activities and tourism,
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[email protected] Abstract Many studies have been published recently on the teaching of the Russian think- er Nikolai Fedorov, but in the assessment of his creativity is still evidenced by RODIS" ( Publishing House "ANALITIKA innuendo, disguise, a veil of silence silence and simply preconception. over extended periods implicitly formed the tradition of perception of Fedorov as a brilliant visionary, righteous and uncanonized holy man, whose life is easy to fit into the genre of the lives, and ideas are discussed in the tideway of orthodox philosophy or in the framework of scientific prediction, forecasting, futurologi- cal project, or both of them together. Who was cosmist Fedorov in realшен after all – scientist, philosopher, religious thinker or a charlatan? Keywords Space, patrofication, conciliarity, non-kinship, autotrophy, progress, magic, im- mortality. Introduction origin, studied independently, knew al- most by heart all the books in the library Literature about Fedorov tradi- of the Rumyantsev Museum, dressed in tionally built on hagiographic canon: he rags, slept on the trunk for 3-4 hours, ate lived quietly, wandered, concealed his bread and tea, refused increased salaries, Volkov Vladimir Nikolaevich Publishing House "ANALITIKA RODIS" 27 handed out money to the poor, consid- erary and artistic form (F.