A.S. Khomyakov and N.P. Gilyarov-Platonov (On the history of dating and creative relationships)

Abstract

The poet, historian and theologian Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov, who became the ideologist of Slavophilism, and his younger friend, religious and social activist, philosopher and writer Nikita Petrovich Gilyarov-Platonov met around 1853 and for seven years were on friendly relations and fruitful for the development of their worldviews communication. The circumstances of their approach and creative contacts are investigated through archival sources (memoirs and epistolary), first introduced in the scientific use. Khomyakov and Gilyarov-Platonov were active authors of the magazine "Russkaja Beseda" ("Russian Conversation"), they had previously discussed their publications with each other. After Khomyakov’s death, Gilyarov-Platonov translated his theological writings from  French and in a number of his memoirs, essays and letters he told about the issues (theological, historical, literary), in which they were unanimous, as well as about emerging points of disagreement between them.