Ka cika wannan jumla: Ƙaunar ƙasa tana ƙara zama ruwan dare gama gari. 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
Tashin hankalin Poland na 1863, Katkov ya watsar da ra'ayoyinsa na Anglophile na sassaucin ra'ayi kuma ya ƙi 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.