Author(s)

Irina Mitrofanova, Svetlana Deryabina

Corresponding Author

Irina Mitrofanova

ABSTRACT

The article covers the importance of perception and study spiritual verses in the Russian linguistic culture. Spiritual verse is being a part of Russian culture that defines itself as a certain paradox - the more it has been studied, the more questions and problems are created around it. For many centuries spiritual vocabulary as a phenomenon of a rich heritage which has been a powerful tool that influenced the people’s public consciousness. Without any doubts all these features play an important role in the youth perception of Russian spiritual verse. The concept of the soul in spiritual verse personifies the ideas of a Russian Orthodox person. It is a natural reality that associates with both spirit and body. Spiritual verse has a number of unique properties including religious and national-heroic themes of works, their text-musical form of existence, emotionality, subjectivity, and educational orientation which make it a single genre and holistic phenomenon in the Russian linguistic culture.

KEYWORDS

Russian linguistic culture, spiritual poetry, religion, the biblical story, epithets, the culture of the people