Konstantin Kavelin

Konstantin Kavelin

Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin ("Константин Дмитриевич Кавелин" in Russian) (November 4, 1818 - May 5, 1885) was a Russian historian, jurist, and sociologist, sometimes called the chief architect of early Russian liberalism.

Born into an old noble family, Kavelin graduated from the legal department of the Moscow University and read law at the University of St Petersburg from 1839. Together with Timofey Granovsky and Alexander Herzen, he was one of the leading "Westerners". In 1855, Herzen published Kavelin's celebrated proposal for the emancipation of serfs, which cost him the lucrative position of tsesarevich's tutor. During the 1860s, Kavelin was elected President of the Free Economic Society and gradually drifted to the right. In his "Short Review of Russian History" (1887) he seconded many Slavophile opinions and praised state as the key institution of national history.

Some scholars believe that Kavelin was a prototype of Stiva Oblonski in Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina".

External links

* [http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/007/046/46443.htm Konstantin Kavelin in the Brockhaus-Efron Encyclopedia]


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