Nikolay Strakhov
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Strakhov, also transliterated as Nikolai Strahov (
philosopher, publicist, journalist and literary critic. He shared the ideals of Pochvennichestvo and was a longtime friend and correspondent of Leo Tolstoy.[1]
Strakhov was born in
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Apollon Grigoryev
. He became one of the very few close friends of Leo Tolstoy.
In the 1870s Nikolay Strakhov wrote his most famous philosophical work World as a Whole and was among the first (if not the first) to recognize Tolstoy's Slavophile ideology and its more conservative and nationalist variant known as Pochvennichestvo. In 1883 Nikolay Strakhov wrote The Struggle Against the West in Russian Literature and supported ideas of Nikolay Danilevsky and claimed that Western European rationalism lacks scientific grounds.
Nikolay Strakhov supported and encouraged the young
Moskovskie Vedomosti. Russian liberals bitterly resented Strakhov and considered him a reactionary
philosopher.
Strakhov died in Saint Petersburg in 1896; he never married[3] and had no children.
References
- ISBN 978-0-674-28166-0. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- JSTOR 1878890.
- JSTOR 1878890.
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