Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - kishin kasa ya kasance mai jan hankali sosai. Mikhail Katkov (1818<unk>87) ba mai zurfin ilimin siyasa ba ne, amma kwarewarsa ta aikin jarida da baiwa don muhawara sun sanya shi muhimmin adadi a cikin ƙirƙirar ma'anar asalin ƙasa da manufa. Bayan yakin Crimean (1856) da kuma tayar da hankali na Poland na 1863
, Katkov ya yi watsi da ra'ayoyinsa na Anglophile na sassaucin ra'ayi kuma ya yi watsi da gyare-gyaren farko na Alexander II. Maimakon haka ya inganta wata ƙasa mai ƙarfi ta Rasha da goyon bayan mutanen Rasha masu himma tare da hangen nesa na ƙasa. Ra'ayoyinsa sun dogara ne akan ra'ayoyin Yammacin Turai (akasin ra'ayoyin Slavophile). Mujallar adabinsa ta "Russkii Vestnik" da jaridar "Moskovskiye Vedomosti (" Moscow News ") sune kafofin watsa labarai masu tasiri don inganta ra'ayoyinsa.