Abstract: Based on the advancements of Russian philosophical and psychological school during the 1920-30s, the authors have attempted to reflect on its potential in the context of portraying contemporary politicians. Major paradigmatic directions of development of the phenomenon of identification based on the context principle are disclosed. Fundamental philosophical differences, philosophical, psychological and actual psychological interpretations of the concept of personality are outlined. Heuristic aspects of Russian religious philosophical and psychological thought, which give modern philosophical discourse a peculiar introspective dimension, are revealed. The authors appeal to the integration potential of philosophical psychology, which as a frontier discipline, and contains a convergent resource, forming a synthesis of knowledge about personality. It shows the unique imagery of Russian philosophical and psychological consciousness as a "multidimensional" consciousness, which originates in the traditions of the Byzantine ontological aesthetics. It is concluded that the psychological portraiture of a politician's personality takes considerable heuristic potential, based on the theory of the image, symbolic and axiological approach.

Keywords: law of context, portretology, portraiture, person, state, politician, society, politics, substantiality, theory of image