THE WORLD HAS BECOME LESS. IN MEMORY OF ANDREI KARAVASHKIN

The paper is devoted to the memory of Andrei Vital’evich Karavashkin (1964–2021) the philologist and historian, professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities. His scientific activities are considered. Its main results are noted: participation in the development of the methodology of historical phenomenology, that includes innovative ideas of “premiseless hermeneutics”, the concept of “royal sacrifice” and its role in the formation of the ideology of power in medieval Russia. Karavashkin made a great contribution to the study of the history and culture of Moscow Russia, the narrative of Ivan Peresvetov, Ivan the Terrible, Andrei Kurbsky. In the book “The Literary Custom of Old Rus” he proposed an original concept for the development of Old Russian literature. The importance of A.V. Karavashkin’s research in the humanities, synthesizing the historical and philological fields of knowledge is highly assessed.