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The article analyzes the approach of the Silver Age writers and philosophers to the personality and creativity of A.S. Pushkin. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries "God seekers" perceived him as a harbinger of a new art, or as a poet endowed with both mystical experience and transcendental vision, who could not, however, add either his ethical nor his aesthetic ideals to his family life. The beginning of a stormy controversy about the role of Pushkin in the history of the Russian literature was laid by the article by Vl. Solovyov, who began the discussion relevant for the Silver Age on the poet's family ideal. The article was a response to the celebration of the centenary anniversary of the birth of Pushkin and caused an ambiguous reaction in the literary milieu. D.S. Merezhkovsky was the one of the most sensitively reacted writer to the words of Solovyov about Pushkin. Merezhkovsky always found the kindred ideas in the works of outstanding predecessors. He found a salutary source of moral life in Pushkin's works as well.