Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2016 9) 1888-1895 ~ ~ ~ УДК 009 Sensual and Intuitive Reflexion of Culture in Russian Symbolism of the End of the XIX – the Beginning of the XX Century Oleg Yu. <...> Astakhov* Kemerovo State Institute of Culture 17 Voroshilova Str., Kemerovo, 650029, Russia Received 11.04.2016, received in revised form 26.05.2016, accepted 19.07.2016 The study considers ideas of Russian symbolism of the end of the XIX the beginning of the XX century connected with discovering new possibilities for world realizing in culture. <...> Moreover the study focuses attention on the theoretical works of V. Ia. <...> Briusov V. Ia. examines art within overcoming rational attitude to the world through releasing sensual intuition as a way for implementing life in the act of free creativity. <...> Introduction Most of researchers note that emphasized reflexivity of creative searches in Russia of the end XIX – the beginning of the XX century, the period called as “Silver age” is the invariable art characteristic for a turn of centuries. <...> Many modern researchers characterize this feature as a reaction to epoch-making crisis tendencies in Russian culture of the beginning of the XX century (N. A. Hrenov, I.V. Kondakov, © Siberian Federal University. <...> Besides, the internal features characterizing art reflexivity of a turn of centuries are defined in the works of D.E. Maximov, V. E. Kovskii, V. F. Asmus, S. I. Gindin, V. N. Orlov, E. P. Bernshtein, L. E. Liapina, L. Ia. <...> Moreover these ideas are represented in the works of the poets of the end of XIX – the beginning of the XX century such as K. Bal’mont, V. Briusov, I. Annenskii, M. Voloshin, V. Ivanov, A. Belyi and etc. and these are the undoubted evidence of a special world attitude focused on searching valuable reference points not only in art, but also in culture Oleg Yu. <...> Sensual and Intuitive Reflexion of Culture in Russian Symbolism of the End of the XIX. in general which aren’t excluding plurality of their meanings and values. <...> The aspiration to reconsider past values, to develop essentially new, unclassical approach to culture brought to life many acute contradictions creating the internal tension of Russian cultural Renaissance. <...> Not incidentally N. Berdiaev in his work “Self-knowledge” noted that Russian cultural Renaissance represented <...>