TY - JOUR

T1 - "NESTLINGS FROM THE KATKOV BROOD" IN THE LATE 1880S: NATIONALISTS IN THE EMPIRE

AU - Котов, Александр Эдуардович

PY - 2023/3/31

Y1 - 2023/3/31

N2 - This article studies the crisis that befell Russian conservative nationalists in the second half of the 1880s, contrary to their hopes gener-ated by the enthronement of the “nationalist Tsar” Alexander III. The crisis was partly caused by the demise of three relatively independent intellectual leaders of this trend: Ivan Aksakov, Mikhail Katkov, and Nikolay Gilyarov-Platonov. But one should not discount the reaction of Alexander III to the “foreign policy” activities pursued in 1886-1887 by Katkov and his support-ers, including General Evgeny Bogdanovich. These activities, aimed at bring-ing Russia and France closer together, also had internal political and ideolog-ical aspects. Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Aleksey Suvorin, Sergey Tatishchev, and others carried forward Katkov’s idea; Prince Vladimir Meshchersky, a hereditary conservative, was their vocal critic. In the pages of his newspaper Grazhdanin (Citizen), he mounted a powerful critique of the Katkov “school” that would soon be embodied in government policy: classical education, pub-lic railways, and the idea of a union with Republican France.

AB - This article studies the crisis that befell Russian conservative nationalists in the second half of the 1880s, contrary to their hopes gener-ated by the enthronement of the “nationalist Tsar” Alexander III. The crisis was partly caused by the demise of three relatively independent intellectual leaders of this trend: Ivan Aksakov, Mikhail Katkov, and Nikolay Gilyarov-Platonov. But one should not discount the reaction of Alexander III to the “foreign policy” activities pursued in 1886-1887 by Katkov and his support-ers, including General Evgeny Bogdanovich. These activities, aimed at bring-ing Russia and France closer together, also had internal political and ideolog-ical aspects. Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Aleksey Suvorin, Sergey Tatishchev, and others carried forward Katkov’s idea; Prince Vladimir Meshchersky, a hereditary conservative, was their vocal critic. In the pages of his newspaper Grazhdanin (Citizen), he mounted a powerful critique of the Katkov “school” that would soon be embodied in government policy: classical education, pub-lic railways, and the idea of a union with Republican France.

KW - Alexander III

KW - Bogdanovich

KW - France

KW - Katkov

KW - Meshchersky

KW - Russia

KW - aristocratic conservatives

KW - conservatism

KW - national-ism

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/14365b06-eff8-3d6f-bac9-e22de4c275f1/

U2 - 10.21557/ssc.84506112

DO - 10.21557/ssc.84506112

M3 - Article

VL - 54

SP - 106

EP - 120

JO - Social Sciences

JF - Social Sciences

SN - 0134-5486

IS - 1

ER -