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The writings of the well-known Russian philosopher Nikolay Fyodorov, addressing the issue of museums, have drawn attention of a wide circle of professional museologists only in the post-soviet period.
Fyodorov considered the museum to be the last leftover of the veneration of the dead, a particular sort of this cult, which, being expelled from religion (as in Protestantism), rehabilitates itself in the museum.
The philosopher himself had worked as a librarian in the library of the Rumyantsev Museum for a quarter of a century and was a person who knew the peculiarities of the museum environment very well. He was ready to use museums for creation of a new religious movement, similar to the ways Roerich used painting and Leo Tolstoy, literature.