Are you full of ancient glory or a fierce Muscovite?

The next book of the Big Moscow Library series is devoted to Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov - a thinker, publicist, literary criticism, historian, philologist and poet, the eldest son S.T. Asksakov.
This distinctive person, one of the theoretics of Slavophilism, while studying at Moscow University (1832-1835) was an active member of the Mug N.V.Stankevich, along with V.G. Belinsky, V.P. Kotkin and others who have become Subsequently, his ideological opponents. In the 1840s, he becomes one of the most zealous supporters and propagandists for the transformation of Russian society in their relatives, original principles. The elder of Peter I"s reforms, tireless Moskvolub, without tired of proving the priority position of Moscow in Russian history, the apologue of St. Russia and the Russian people, K.S. Asksakov occupied an irreconcilable position in disputes with his opponents. But at the same time, the maximalist in theoretical matters, in life, he was distinguished by tolerance and a flawless moral reputation. Honesty K.S. Sksakov, decency, sincerity and nobility noted even his ideological enemies: A.I.Grenz, for example, called him an opponent who was closer than many of his. In the proposed attention of the readers of the edition published prose and poetic experiments to K.S. Asksakov, his journalistic work, epistolary heritage. Special sections contains reviews and memories of contemporaries, and friends, and enemies, about this outstanding Muscovite. The guide to Aksakovsky places in Moscow is of undoubted interest. A number of documents included in the book are published for the first time. The publication is equipped with an extensive scientific and reference apparatus and a variety of valuable illustrations