Pavel Bakunin’s philosophy of personal immortality

Te article is devoted to the unduly half-forgoten book Te Funda-mentals of Faith and Knowledge (1886) by the Russian religious philosopher Pavel Bakunin (1820-1900), the junior brother of the well-known anarchist and revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin. Te article starts with a survey of scarce references to this work throughout history, which includes positive acclaim coming in leters by such prominent literary figures as Leo Tolstoy, Nikolay Strakhov and Vasily Rozanov, as well as in works by the émigré historians of Russian philosophy Dmitrij Tschižewskij, Boris Yakovenko and Father Vasily Zenkovsky. Te later part of the article deals with a description of Pavel Bakunin’s religious metaphysics as expressed in the book under re-view; main influences on his work (particularly Hegel and Friedrich Schlei-ermacher) are described, with the emphasis laid on independent features of Bakunin’s philosophical views.