Slavophilia
The term Slavophiles, mutatis mutandis about Slawentumbegeisterte, refers to a political- journalistic movement that formed the Czech and Russian precursor or early representative of the position of the Westerners opposite Panslavism since the 1820s. The comprehensive phase they handed in Prague until the Slavs congress of 1848 or until the occurrence of a maximum of the first Young Czechs in 1860, in Russia until the death of its principal representative in 1860.
History
The term was coined in Germany, where Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schelling in a heroic Slavs Ideal enthusiastic and had where many Slavophile studied.
The discussion between Westerners and Slavophiles sparked 1836 Pyotr Chaadayev with his " First Philosophical Letter ", in which he denounced negative aspects of Russia and the country designated as regressive.
As thought leaders an initially purely literary and historical recollection of the Slavs were among the Czechs Josef Dobrovský, František Palacký and the Czecho- Slovak Ján Kollár hydrophilic. For the Russians, the theologian Alexei Khomyakov and especially the brothers Ivan and Konstantin Aksakow dominated ( Sons of Sergei Aksakow ) and the brothers Ivan and Petr Kirejewski. The Czechs after 1848 brought the first Austroslavism out, the Russians after 1860 next to the Pan-Slavism but also the Panrussismus.
Classification
Unlike the Westerners who sought a Europeanization of Russia, the Russian Slavophiles recollected the " original Russian " (eg Igor song). They discovered thanks Haxthausen ( "Studies in the internal states ... Russia", 1847), the Russian village community as an extended family to me.
In its orientation, served the Slavophiles Enlightenment ideas, they demanded the abolition of serfdom and the enlightenment of the people.
List of other Russian Slavophile
The people here under mentioned were well-known and more or less self-confessed Slavophile. Loosely with representatives of the later Pan-Slavism and Panrussismus be so designated.
- Vladimir Dal
- Nikolai Danilevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Potschwennitschestwo )
- Nikolai Gogol
- Vladimir Lamanski
- Ivan Ilyin
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Fyodor Tjuttschew