Konstantin Leontyev

The life of Konstantin Leontheva (1831-1891) is similar to the adventurenic novel: the suggestive writer, guarding I. S. Turgenev, a military doctor in the Crimean War, a brilliant diplomat in the Ottoman Empire, who gives the service for the aroused faith and living for almost a year on Athos, dreaming about Monastic tonsure, the author of numerous novels and stories, noted by L. N. Tolstoy, the spiritual son of the elder Amvrosia Optina, who became ink to be ink. The past of this stormy, complete tragic conflicts of life, a person remained in the memory of descendants as an original thinker who created his concept of historical development, tensely reflecting on the fate of Russia in the world. Many of his forecasts came true, many cautions are relevant today