Konstantin Aksakov
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Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Акса́ков) (10 April 1817 – 19 December 1860), a Russian critic and writer, became one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order.[1] His father Sergey Aksakov and his sister Vera Aksakova were writers,[2] and his younger brother, Ivan Aksakov, was a journalist.
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Born | (1817-03-29)March 29, 1817 Novo-Aksakov, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | December 7, 1860(1860-12-07) (aged 43) Zakynthos, United States of the Ionian Islands |
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1835) |
Konstantin Aksakov was the first to publish an analysis of Gogol's 1842 work Dead Souls; he compared the Russian/Ukrainian author with Homer and with Shakespeare.[3] In 1856, after Tsar Alexander II's accession to the throne in 1855, Aksakov sent the emperor a letter advising him to restore the zemsky sobor[4] Aksakov also penned a number of articles on Slavonic linguistics.