THE PHENOMENON OF WAR IN THE AESTHETICS AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITY OF N. S. GUMILYOV

This article shows the genesis of N. S. Gumilyov's worldview through the analysis of his works, in which the poet comprehends the theme of war. The initial enthusiastic perception of war is explained by the poet's adherence to the adamistic concept of peace. The article reveals the main ideas of this concept. The authors assume that it essentially resembles the phenomenological reduction of E. Husserl, since the «new Adams» advocated the cleansing of man from the alluvial crust of «reflections and doubts». The change in the attitude of N. Gumilyov's approach to World War I and, as a result, the transformation of its artistic image in his poems and prose, is motivated by the poet's collision with reality and the realization that war, regardless of its nature and the reasons that caused it, is terrible in principle, since it takes human lives. As a result of changes in the perception of war in general and the transformation of Christian symbols in military lyrics: if in verses the military «cycle» it shows the faith of the author in a war in God's path, the path of transformation of man, and hence the world, then later heard the idea that instead of God in the soul of man there is godlessness, the war made a violent man, deprived of faith. Consequently, in the later poems of the military «cycle», N. S. Gumilyov's rejection of the adamistic concept of war is obvious.