VYACHESLAV IVANOV AND JAKOB BÖHME (RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM THEORY AND ACTUALIZATION OF THE GERMAN MYSTIC’S HERITAGE)

The article outlines the insuffi ciently studied issue «Vyacheslav Ivanov and Jakob Böhme». The goal of the research is to defi ne the sources that infl uenced Vyach. Ivanov’s theory of religious realistic symbolism. The philosophy of Vyach. Ivanov’s art is analyzed, and the contingencies between his theory and the mystic learning of Böhme and his followers concerning symbolic correspondences are highlighted. It is shown that, postulating his principles of religious symbolism, Ivanov relied on Böhme’s principles of symbolic nature of reality, that were connected to the traditions of the Medieval Christian Neoplatonism.