Yuri Samarin
Yuri Fyodorovich Samarin (
Slavophile thinker and one of the architects of the Emancipation reform of 1861
.
He came from a noble family and befriended
Feofan Prokopovich's influence on the Russian Orthodox Church
.
He later joined the government service and settled in
Baltic German nobility exasperated him to such a degree that he urged the government to step up Russification activities in the region. This outburst of chauvinism led to his brief imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress. (Samarin's Slavophilism passed for Pan-Slavism, which was viewed by Nicholas I
as a "rebellious doctrine").
In his latter years, Samarin continued to write copiously on national and "peasant" questions, advocating the step-by-step abolition of
Catholic clergy. He died in Berlin of sepsis and was buried next to Khomyakov in the Danilov Monastery
.
References
- ^ Samarin's words quoted from: V. V. Zenkovsky. A History of Russian Philosophy. Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, 2003. Page 229.
- ^ Daniel Field. The end of serfdom: nobility and bureaucracy in Russia, 1855-1861. Harvard University Press, 1976.
- ^ David L. Ransel, Bożena Shallcross. Polish Encounters, Russian Identity. Indiana University Press, 2005. Page 93.
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