Sirotina Irina L.

This article presents an overview of the most significant facts and factors in the life and work of Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich – a Russian writer, philosopher, researcher, who managed to impress his contemporaries with the spiritual strength of his personality, moral purity, integrity of worldview and creative energy. He left a rich epistolary legacy, which allows us to see the intellectual history of Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The article presents the concept of the atmosphere in the Moscow Stankevich circle, which included prominent people of Russian culture of the nineteenth century: Annenkov, Belinsky, Herzen, Granovsky, Dobrolyubov, Ogarev, etc., which became a kind of "clot of cultural and historical air, which formed the essence of the "people of the forties" (G.S. Knabe).

The article focuses on the main categories in considering Stankevich's reflections a connoisseur of art and the metaphysics of music in his work: inner voice, perception of music, sound, melodism, rhythm, intonation, opera, theater, musical enlightenment, etc. The creative atmosphere created by Stankevich in the circle, his worldview, his philosophizing about art, literature and music and today, in the 21st century, in Russia, when the process of comprehending the creative activity of Russian "visionaries" is underway, these are important semantic milestones in the study of Russian culture and art. The inclusion of this dynamic process of perception of art by "high–grade amateurs" in the 19th century is an important milestone in the overall picture, as the origins of the formation and development of Russian spiritual culture and science.

Stankevich's experience, which has become a unique practice of forming a specific person's consciousness, worldview, and perception of art, is a new, little–studied phenomenon that stimulates research interest and opens up the possibilities of comparative methodology. Awareness of such a phenomenon makes it possible to clarify and detail general patterns in the development of scientific understanding of the significance of his work in Russian humanitarian thought in history, philosophy, cultural studies and musicology.

This article describes the transformation of modern culture under the influence of new technologies. Digitalization penetrates into absolutely all sectors of society. In this regard, the authors analyze the role of blockchain technology in the formation of modern culture, considering its use in the field of art. This technology allows not only to preserve and distribute works of traditional art, but also initiates the birth of new forms of artistic creativity (crypto art, NFT art), changing the artistic landscape and our perception of art. The article argues that with a huge variety of cultures, the exchange of cultural codes between peoples can be accessible and unbiased and serve to enrich common knowledge and experience through blockchain technology. It is able to make the activities of any cultural sector safe and transparent, since it excludes an intermediary between the participants. The authors show the possibilities of blockchain technology to contribute to the preservation of copyrights for all types of assets, including information objects of culture and works of art. Moreover, the blockchain works on the basis of the logic and rules inherent in it initially, which excludes human participation, therefore, the advantages of this technology are decentralization, transparency, security and anonymity. The real revolution in the creative industry was caused by the emergence of NFT (non-renewable token) technology, which offered a completely innovative approach to recognizing the value and ownership of a cultural object, since NFT can be almost any digital file recorded using smart contracts in blockchains. This provides the users with transparency, allows for studying the history of ownership of an art object and find out the real author. Thus, each author can confirm the authenticity and uniqueness of their work, be it a musical composition, digital painting or any other art object. In addition, NFT ensures the accessibility of art, as well as the opportunity to be a co-owner of creativity by buying only part of it. The authors conclude that today it is not necessary to determine the primacy of one of the colliding cultural worlds — traditional and NFT art. The actual problem of the art world of the 21st century is to realize and accept this new experience.