The final book of the author's project on the study of the East Christian line of development of aesthetics (Church Fathers, Byzantium, Ancient Russia, Russia of the New Age) is dedicated to the last most fruitful stage of the two-thousand-year history of Orthodox aesthetic consciousness. One of the main lines of this aesthetics was the eschatological approach to artistic creativity, that is, the understanding of the artist as a divinely inspired theurge, designed to go beyond art and begin to create the very life of people and all being according to aesthetic laws.