Russian Idea

[2] The Russian Idea acquired a distinct relevance after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the spiritual vacuum that followed the event.

[8] The very term "Russian Idea" was introduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky in the year 1860[9] and became known abroad after the report named "L'Idée russe" given by philosopher Vladimir Solovyov in Paris in 1888.

[11] The term was widely used by Russian philosophers such as Evgenii Nikolaevitch Troubetzkoy, Vasily Rozanov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Semyon Frank, Georgy Fedotov, Lev Platonovich Karsavin.

In its most correct form, the "Russian Idea" concept is defined through ideas of philosophers and thinkers of the turn of the 20th century, such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov, Ivan Ilyin, Nikolay Danilevsky, and also modern thinkers like Victor Vladimirovich Aksyutich, Arseny Gulaga and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In opposition to the viewpoints similar to that of Yanov and of an article from Kommunist, Arseny Gulyga wrote that it was no wonder that the views of the anticommunist and the postcommunist coincide, because "in both cases there is a desire to defame the spiritual history of Russia".

Saint Basil's Cathedral , an iconic piece of Russian Renaissance architecture [ 1 ] is often used as a symbol of the country.