Abstract
<jats:p>The article highlights the milestones of communication and the main themes of the spiritual and creative dialogue of М.М. Prishvin and philosopher and poet А.К. Gorsky, one of the brightest representatives of Russian Christian thought, unfolding from 1922 to 1943. Gorsky's proposed reading of N.F. Fedorov's "Philosophy of the Common Task" in the light of modernity, the desire to expand on its basis the ideal of building a new world, the idea of the unity of Christian feat and the feat of art, the idea of the creative transformation of eros find a living reaction in Prishvin's diaries, meeting with his thoughts about eros and sex, the prospects of Bolshevism and "the common task" of the resurrection of the fathers. Gorsky interprets the novel "The Chain of Кoschei" in the context of the crisis of symbolism and the search for new ways of life-creative action based on the ideas of active Christianity. Prishvin, for Gorsky, embodies the type of artist-herald, ascending from adamism to liturgism, and Gorsky, for Prishvin, is the type of Christian figure who overcomes the inertia of official Orthodoxy, its passivity and deviation into the otherworldly. The article reveals the evolution of Prishvin's attitude to Gorsky's thesis on the need to transform Soviet ideology based on the "Philosophy of the Common Task" (the acceptance of this thesis in the 1920s, the dispute with it during the era of repression, the return to the idea of the religious and moral renewal of communism during the Great Patriotic War). Unlike Gorsky, who sought to express his word, Prishvin, in the late 1930s, chose a position of silence, understanding this silence as a kind of hidden action.</jats:p>