Konstantin Aksakov

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakow (Russian Константин Сергеевич Аксаков; * Märzjul 29 / 10 April 1817greg in the village of Novo- Aksakow of the then province of Orenburg, .. .. † 7 Dezemberjul / 19 December 1860greg on the Greek island of Zakynthos) was a Russian writer and, like his brother Ivan, an important representative of the Slavophiles.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakow was born as the son of the famous writer Sergei Timofejewitsch Aksakow on his estate in the government of Orenburg in the southern Urals. From 1832 he studied at the University of Moscow. There he was heavily influenced by the philosophy, especially of the historical and cultural view, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In the 1840s, he sat down at the top of the Slavophiles, who saw the future of Russia in the return to adopted Slavic traditions, unlike the Westerners looked to the intellectual and cultural development of Western Europe.

1855 Aksakow formulated his political views in the memorandum "On Russia's internal state " of Tsar Alexander II in which he called for an inner freedom after a supposed medieval ideal of organized communities in Russian society, without servitude and freedom of expression. But the Tsar should retain full sovereignty and decision-making authority in all matters of foreign policy. The tsarist government did not respond with as sharp as persecution on social revolutionary, anarchist or democratic aspirations of the Western model, but also spied Aksakow and its environment intensively.

With Aksakov death, the social and romantic currents of Slavophilism fell into the background and the movement became increasingly nationalistic.