Curated category
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, the man the world would come to know as Vladimir Lenin, took the name from no person at all. He first used it in December 1901, and…
- Nicholas RoerichNicholas Roerich left behind more than 7,000 paintings, a spiritual movement that still has followers today, and an international treaty signed at the White…
- Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Bakhtin spent six years working as a bookkeeper in the provincial Kazakh town of Kustanai, exiled there by the Soviet secret police.
- Peter KropotkinPeter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842, in the Konyushennaya district, which translates as the Equerries district.
- Nikolay LosskyNikolay Onufriyevich Lossky once summed up his entire philosophy in four words: 'all is immanent in all'. He called the system built from that idea…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Berdyaev once told Felix Dzerzhinsky, the feared head of the Soviet secret police, exactly what was wrong with Bolshevism.
- Vasily RozanovVasily Rozanov died of starvation in a monastery in the hungry years after the Russian Revolution, which is a fitting end for a man who spent his life…
- 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, into a world where official history was a controlled substance.
- Lev ShestovLev Shestov died in a Paris clinic on the 19th of November 1938, still writing. He was seventy-one years old and in the final weeks of his life had been…
- Alexander ZinovievAlexander Zinoviev was born on the 29th of October 1922 in a peasant village called Pakhtino, in the Kostroma Governorate of Russia.
- Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was shot dead on the night of the 8th of December 1937, in a wood not far from Leningrad, transported there in a special train…