The article explores the artistic embodiment of Christian values in the works of A.N. Apukhtin. Four main values are highlighted. Firstly, they appear in poems on military subjects. If in earlier texts the Christian God is the savior and patron saint of Russia and Russian soldiers, then in later works on the war with Turkey, the battle in the name of God is seen as an in human massacre that contradicts the first commandment of both Christ and Allah: Thou shalt not kill! Secondly, a number of poems on the episodes from the New Testament are dedicated to the Savior. In these works, the human principle is completely eliminated and the exclusively divine is affirmed in the figure of Christ, the spiritual ideal for humanity, the miracle of His Resurrection is seen as the beginning of the transformation of the world. Thirdly, the way of Christ, the crown of thorns and Golgotha are the personification of the path of the poet-prophet, the Savior himself becomes a symbolic "double" of the poet-in-the-world image, which continues the theme of A.S. Pushkin's poem "The Prophet". God is the force testing the poet. Fourthly, the opposition of the Father and the Son is studied. If Christ is the redeemer of the sins of mankind, "so that the world may be saved", then God the Father appears to be a punishing and merciless entity, testing the world with suffering and pain.
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