This is a list of 19th-century Russian Slavophiles: Slavophilia is an intellectual movement originating from the 19th century that wanted the

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to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its early history. Slavophiles were especially opposed to the influences of Western Europe in Russia.Encyclopædia Britannica Slavophile article
/ref> There were also similar movements in Poland, Hungary and Greece.

Prominent Slavophiles

* Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Аксаков; - ,

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) was a Russian

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and notable Slavophile. He was the son of

Sergey Aksakov Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov (, ) (—) was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing. Early life According to the Velvet Book of Russia ...

and brother to Vera Aksakova and

Konstantin Aksakov Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (; 10 April 1817 – 19 December 1860) was a Russian critic and writer. He became one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order ...

. He was born in what is now

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. * Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov () (1817–1860) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order.Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters By Russell Bova His father

and sister Vera Aksakova were writers, and his younger brother

Ivan Aksakov Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (; , village Nadezhdino, Belebeyevsky Uyezd, Orenburg Governorate – , Moscow) was a Russian littérateur and notable Slavophile. Biography Aksakov was born in the village of Nadezhdino (then Orenburg Governorate, no ...

was a journalist. * Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (''Алексей Степанович Хомяков'') (May 1, 1804,

– September 23/25, 1860) was a Russian religious poet who co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireevsky, and became one of its most distinguished theoreticians. * Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky (; 3 April 1806,

— 23 June 1856) was a

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literary critic and philosopher who, together with

Aleksey Khomyakov Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (; – ) was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireyevsky, and he became one of its most distinguished theoreticians. His son Nikol ...

, co-founded the Slavophile movement. * Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (, 1800,

- 1875) was a Russian historian and journalist who dominated the national historiography between the death of

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in 1826 and the rise of Sergey Solovyov in the 1850s. He is best remembered as a staunch proponent of the Normanist theory of Russian statehood. In 1841 Pogodin joined his old friend Stepan Shevyrev in editing ''Moskovityanin'', a periodical which came to voice the Slavophile opinions. In the course of the following fifteen years of editing, Pogodin and Shevyrev steadily slid towards the most reactionary form of Slavophilism. * Yuri Samarin (Юрий Фёдорович Самарин; 1819-1876) was a leading Russian Slavophile thinker and one of the architects of the

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. * Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Тю́тчев; - ) is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia, following

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and

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

. Politically, he was a militant Slavophile, who never needed a particular reason to berate the Western powers,

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, or

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, perceived by him as Judas of pan-Slavic interests. The failure of the

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made him look critically at the Russian government. * Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov (, March 4, 1803,

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- December 26, 1846,

) was a Russian poet and Slavophile who in the 1820s rivalled

and

Yevgeny Baratynsky Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky ( rus, Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈtɨnskʲɪj, a=Yevgyeniy Abramovich Baratynskiy.ru.vorb.oga; 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexande ...

as the most popular poet of his generation.

Prominent Russian nationalist and conservative thinkers influenced by Slavophile ideology

Nikolay Danilevsky Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky (; – ) was a Russian naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian and ideologue of pan-Slavism and the Slavophile movement. He expounded a circular view of world history. He is remembered also ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influent ...

* Ivan Ilyin *

Mikhail Katkov Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (; 13 February 1818 – 1 August 1887) was a conservative Russian journalist influential during the reign of tsar Alexander III. He was a proponent of Russian nationalism, an important figure in the creation of a fee ...

* Konstantin Leontiev *

Natalia Narochnitskaya Nataliya Alekseevna Narotchnitskaya () (born 23 December 1948) is a Russian politician, historian and political commentator. Between 1982 and 1989 Narochnitskaya worked at the Secretariat-General of the United Nations in New York. In the 1990s ...

Konstantin Pobedonostsev Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev ( rus, Константи́н Петро́вич Победоно́сцев, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pəbʲɪdɐˈnostsɨf; 30 November 1827 – 23 March 1907) was a Russian jurist and states ...

Igor Shafarevich Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised social ...

Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (; – ) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the ...

History of Russian Philosophy «История российской Философии »(1951), pp. 81-134. * Sergey Solovyov *

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and Soviet dissidents, dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag pris ...

Nikolay Strakhov Nikolay Nikolayevich Strakhov, also transliterated as ''Nikolai Strahov'' (; 16 October 1828 – 24 January 1896) was a Russian philosopher, publicist, journalist and literary critic. He shared the ideals of Pochvennichestvo and was a longtime f ...

* Lev Tikhomirov * Sergei Trubetskoy

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