Nikolay Strakhov

He shared the ideals of Pochvennichestvo and was a longtime friend and correspondent of Leo Tolstoy.

Strakhov worked on the literary journals Time and Epoch together with Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Apollon Grigoryev.

Nikolay Strakhov was also one of the most prominent opponents of Liberalism, Rationalism and Utilitarianism in Russia, who contributed greatly to the development of traditionalist Slavophile ideology and its more conservative and nationalist variant known as Pochvennichestvo.

Nikolay Strakhov supported and encouraged the young Vasily Rozanov to become a writer and philosopher.

Despite his conservatism and support for official government ideology of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality he was at times criticized by pro-government publications such as Mikhail Katkov's Moskovskie Vedomosti.