K.P. Pobedonostsev and V.V. Rozanov: “Fathers and Sons” of Russian Conservatism
The article is devoted to the analysis of the relations of two major representatives of Russian conservatism of the 19th-20th centuries, - the Ober-Procurator of the Most Hole Synod K.P. Pobedonostsev and publicist V.V. Rozanov. According to the author of the article, those relations revealed not just the personal specifics of both conservatives who initially sympathized with each other both personally and conceptually, but more the principle separation in the conservative camp that happened at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It reflected both the generational and ideological contradictions in the views. In particular, the young conservatives of the turn of the century challenged the "protective” position of K.P Pobedonostsev demanding more efficient activity of the Church and the State in defending the basics of the existing order. Ideologically the new generation of conservatives believed that under the conditions of the ideological struggle aggravations at the turn of the century the conservative fundamentals need to be more clearly formulated and substantiated, while the Ober-Procurator definitely opposed such steps. In the long run those contradictions resulted in tragic consequences for both the conservatism as social and political trend in Russia, and for the destiny of Russian state system in the 20th century.