ZhZL: Konstantin Leont'ev - Volkogonova O.D.

The life of Konstantin Leontiev is similar to an adventure novel: a budding writer, cared for by I.S. Turgenev; military doctor in the Crimean War; a brilliant diplomat in the Ottoman Empire, giving up service for the awakened faith and living almost a year on Athos, dreaming of a monastic haircut; author of numerous novels and short stories marked by L.N. Tolstoy; the spiritual son of the elder Ambrose Optinsky, who became a alien Clement. The life of a man who passed this turbulent, full of tragic conflicts remained in the memory of descendants as an original thinker who created his concept of historical development, thought hard about the fate of Russia in the world. Many of his predictions have come true, many warnings are still relevant today. O.D. Volkogonova, Ph.D., traces not only the event side of K.H.Leontiev's life from aesthetics and free love to humility and monasticism, but also the evolution of the thinker's views based on his work, archival materials, public debate, the memories of contemporaries.