Russian monarchists of the early twentieth century about K. N. Leontiev

The article is devoted to the attitude of Russian right-wing conservative politicians and publicists of the early twentieth century to the philosophical ideas of K. N. Leontiev. The speeches, articles by a number of monarchist authors (V. L. Velichko, A. S. Budilovich, A. A. Kireev, L. A. Tikhomirov, B. V. Nikolsky, S. F. Sharapov, etc.), as well as newspaper notes from some monarchist periodicals, in which the attitude of their authors to the work of K. N. Leontiev is somehow affected, are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the extremely right (Black Hundred) politicians and publicists. The article concludes that almost all the authors considered themselves students and successors of the work of K. N. Leontiev, admired his ideas, shared the thinker’s critical statements in relation to Western liberalism and democracy, to the ideas of nationalism and racism, as well as his views on the principle of class status. K. N. Leontiev’s religious and philosophical ideas were one of the components of the ideological basis of the right-conservative political worldview. Critical statements of a number of publicists of the monarchist trend (first of all A. A. Kireev) in relation to the ideas of K. N. Leontiev concerned the denial of progress, the idealization of medieval orders in the German lands, etc. A. A. Kireev even considered it wrong to classify K. N. Leontiev as a Slavophile, since the philosopher considered it necessary to preserve the subordinate position of the Balkan Slavs in relation to the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, despite this circumstance, right-wing publicists and politicians highly appreciated K. N. Leontiev’s contribution to the development of Russian national thought.