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20th-century Russian philosophers
- Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life on a train, preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers, before pneumonia stopped him at a…
- Vladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on the 22nd of April 1870 in Streletskaya Ulitsa, a street in the city of Simbirsk. He grew up as the third child among…
- Nicholas RoerichOn the 9th of October 1874, Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerich was born in Saint Petersburg to a well-to-do Baltic German father and a Russian mother.
- Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was born in the city of Oryol, Russia, to a family of nobility. His father managed a bank and moved the family across several…
- Peter KropotkinPeter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842. He entered the Page Corps, an elite school for imperial attendants, at age eight after Tsar…
- Nikolay LosskyNikolay Onufriyevich Lossky was born in Kreslavka, a town within the Russian Empire. His father Onufry Lossky carried Belarusian roots and served as an…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- Vasily RozanovVasily Vasilievich Rozanov lived from 1856 to the 5th of February 1919. He stood as one of the most controversial Russian writers of his time.
- Semyon FrankSemyon Lyudvigovich Frank was born in Russia on the 28th of January 1877. He entered the world within a Jewish family in Moscow.
- Anatoly KhazanovAnatoly Mikhailovich Khazanov was born on the 13th of December 1937 in Moscow. He entered Moscow State University to begin his higher education journey.
- Lev ShestovYeguda Lev Shvartsman was born in Kiev during the year 1866. He later adopted the name Lev Shestov for his philosophical career.
- Alexander ZinovievAlexander Zinoviev was born on the 29th of October 1922 in Pakhtino, a village within the Kostroma Governorate. His family belonged to the state peasants…
- Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was born on the 19th of January 1882 in the town of Yevlakh within the Elisabethpol Governorate.