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...and human will. He developed these themes in two brilliant but rather confused works, Pisma iz Frantsii i Italii (“Letters from France and Italy”) and S togo berega (From the Other Shore). His disillusionment was vastly increased by his wife’s infidelity with the radical German poet Georg Herwegh and by her death in 1852.
...combined romantic ardour and positivism, formulating a passionately Russian type of socialism; he left his mark in autobiography, political letters, fiction, and chiefly philosophy of history in From the Other Shore (1851). Nikolay Danilevsky (1822–85), a scientist who turned to philosophy, attempted to convince his compatriots that the manifest destiny of their country was to...
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