Varypayiv O. The Pilgrimage in the East-Slavic Culture

This thesis contains the complex analysis of such phenomenon as pilgrimage. Its substantial traits are exposed and presented as having the obvious philosophical significance for the cultural discourse of the XIX-XXth centuries. The fundamental types of pilgrimage are distinguished. It is demonstrated that this phenomenon is closely related to the main mental notions based upon metaphorics of space. The national-religious philosophical paradigm of thinking which forms the integral altitude to world and pilgrim's existence in it is also defined. Our thesis takes into consideration the formation of the opposition "pilgrimage/wandering". This opposition is pointed out and studied on the basis of "Silver Age" philosophers and thinkers' ideals.