Yuri Samarin

Yuri Samarin

Yuri Fyodorovich Samarin (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Сама́рин; 3 May 1819, Saint Petersburg – 31 March 1876, Berlin) was a leading Russian Slavophile thinker and one of the architects of the Emancipation reform of 1861. He came from a noble family and befriended Konstantin Aksakov from an early age. An ardent admirer of Hegel and Khomyakov, Samarin attended the Moscow University, where his teachers included Mikhail Pogodin. He came to believe that "Orthodoxy, and Orthodoxy alone, is a religion which philosophy can recognize" and that "the Orthodox church cannot exist apart from Hegel's philosophy". Read more on Wikipedia

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