Konstantin Sergeevitsy Aksakov Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Константин Сергеевич Аксаков) (Novo-Aksakov, near Orenburg, April 10, 1817 - Zakynthos, Greece, December 19, 1860) was a Russian writer and publicist, son of Sergey Aksakov and Ivan Aksakov's brother. Life and work
Konstantin Aksakov studied literature at the University of Moscow. There he went with Vissarion Belinski, Nikolaj Stankevitsj and Timofej Granovski, and became Hegelian. His dissertation on the role of Michail Lomonosov in the history of Russian language and literature contained sharp attacks on the 'Peterburg period' in Russian history, and thus on Peter the Great. Eventually, this critical arrangement gave him a lot of trouble in publishing his writings.
As from 1850, Aksakov came under the influence of Yuri Samarin and Aleksej Chomjakov, and evolved as one of the first ideologists of slavophilia. He idealized the Russian village communities, advocated the abolition of physical property, the convening of a kind of parliament, as well as more freedom of expression.
In addition to a Test for Russian Grammar (1860), Aksakov wrote the joy of Vor Lopovski (1857), the dramatic parody Oleg for Constantinople (1858) and a series of poems. He also translated Goethe and Schiller into Russian. Literature and sources
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