WE NEED TO LET THE TIME TAKE ITS COURSE: K. N. LEONTIEV AND E.-M. DE VOGÜÉ

Abstract

In the early 1870s, in Constantinople, K. N. Leontiev met a young French diplomat and writer, Viscount E.-M. de Vogüé. The article outlines the subsequent events, as refl ected in the correspondence between Leontiev and his friend K. A. Gubastov. Vogüé’s review of Leontiev’s work was discovered in one of the archival documents.