Kievan chronotopos revisited, or how Isaac Moiseevich quarrelled with Ivan Alekseevich, and what it gives to Leo Isaakovich and Igor Ivanovich

Abstract

The author applies a metaphor of a Kievan chronotopos to considerations of a moral climate in Kiev at the end of XIX — beginning of XX cc. as exemplified in the life destinies of a psychiatrist and positivist philosopher I.A. Sikorsky and I.M. Schwarzman (the father of an existentialist philosopher L. Shestov).
The keynote of the paper is the claim that the confrontation of the fathers has induced a number of geopolitical shifts and faults, and has led to the loss of homeland by their sons.