Reign and ritual: crowning of the tsaraesthetics in the interpretation of N.F. Fyodorov

The article is dedicated to the semiosis of the tsar’s crowning ritual in Nikolay Fyodorovich Fyodorov’s «Philosophy of the Common Task». This problem has never been an object of a special research but it helps to get closer to the understanding of ontology of Fyodorov’s aesthetic supramoralism project. His philosophical works «Monarchy», «Aesthetic Supramoralism», «Easter in the Kremlin with Coronation», «About the Kremlin Walls Paintings», «About the Monument to Alexander III…», «For the Forthcoming Coronation» are analyzed in the article. The interpretation particularities of the coronation ritual semiotic system in the context of supramoralism aesthetics are defined. The projective connection of the coronation with governmental social ideal is shown in the article, this ideal was formed in Fyodorov’s Christian universalism. The comparison is made between Fyodorov’s project of the tsar’s crowning ritual and coronation in the Russian Empire ceremonial culture. Fyodorov’s understanding ofthe emperor’s regalia symbolism and meaning of the ancient Byzantianacacius ritual inclusion are disclosed in the article. The analysis of time and space images in Fyodorov’s interpretation allowed seeing liturgic basis of his project aesthetics. The importance of the explanatory and projective ecphrasis is demonstrated in the process of Fyodorov’s interpretation of the monumental visual art that express aesthetic and didactic meaning of the crowning ritual.