The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slavophil \Slav"o*phil\, Slavophile \Slav"o*phile\, n. [Slavic + Gr. ??? loving.] One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.
Usage examples of "slavophil".
He became intimate with the nationalist and Slavophil circles of Moscow, and as he was of a distinctly unintellectual turn of mind, their nationalism was reflected in him in the form of a very crude jingoism.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
They were one of the germs out of which, in the thirties, grew up the Slavophil group.
Khomyakov and the Kireyevskys in the thirties, but Slavophil feelings had long been alive in many Russian minds.
But he was, as it were, a keeper of the sacred fire of the Slavophil religion.
Partly under the influence of his brother and of Khomyakov, from a follower of Schelling he became a Slavophil and an Orthodox churchman.
In 1852 he once more published an article in a purely Slavophil miscellany, for which the miscellany was suppressed.
She was herself the daughter of such a squire, and her work is inspired by a love for the simple and backwater provincial life of her class of people and a devotion to the Slavophil ideals of family unity and paternal authority.
There grew up a sort of Slavophil doctrine of strategy and tactics that insisted on the existence of a Russian school of warfare and on the great tradition of Suvorev.
Most of the civic poets were radicals of some kind or other, but one of the first and best was the Slavophil Ivan Aksakov, whose publicistic poems written in the forties and fifties, in which he calls the Russian intellectual to work and discipline, and inveighs against his Oblomov,and-Rudin ineffectiveness and sloth, are admirable for their unadorned and straightforward strength.
The immediate success of the play was great, owing to the original and Slavophil character of the noble drunkard, the ruined merchant Lyubim Tortsov, who has remained one of the most popular roles in the Russian repertory.
The great Slavophil critic Apollon Grigoriev, a man of extraordinary but erratic genius, was the only critic to welcome Leskov, to appreciate and to encourage him.
Some of them, after the defeat of the terrorists, shifted towards a more non-political attitude, and many populists of the eighties approached Tolstoy in his passive anarchism, or even the more conservative and Slavophil anarchism of Dostoyev-sky.
Ignatiev, like the Slavophil he was, and like all official Russia, took the side of the Bulgarians because they were Slavs.
Among the conservative and Slavophil sections of the educated classes, the supremacy of political and social over all other values was also the rule, and Christian orthodoxy was valued as a justification of political theories rather than for its own sake.