khomiakof

Updated: May 28, 2025

* This was one of the favourite themes of Khomiakof, the Slavophil poet and theologian. Deeply imbued with that romantic spirit which distorted all the intellectual activity of the time, the Slavophils often indulged in the wildest exaggerations, condemning everything foreign and praising everything Russian.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Khomiakof, for instance, in one of his most vigorous poems, predicts that God will one day take the destiny of the world out of the hands of England in order to give it to Russia, and he adduces as one of the reasons for this transfer the fact that England "has chained, with sacrilegious hand, the Church of God to the pedestal of the vain earthly power." So far the theory.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia