TY - JOUR
TI - Slavicity in the Ideas of Russian Jesuits in 19th Century France
AU - Cierniak, Urszula
AU - Bańczyk, Alicja
TI - Slavicity in the Ideas of Russian Jesuits in 19th Century France
AB - When analysing Russian literature and social thought of the nineteenth century, it can be easily observed that the works can manifest one of two tendencies prevalent in those times: Occidental or Slavophil one. Russian Catholics have been so far recognised as the representatives of the former because of their positive attitude towards Western Europe and its religion.
The focus of this article is on the four immigrants permanently living in France, members of the Jesuit Order – Ivan Gagarin, Ivan Martynov, Yevgeniy Balabin and Paweł Pierling. Their perception of Slavic matters, the Slavs and their religious problems allows them to locate their ideas in relation to the views of Slavophiles and Occidentalists. Russian Catholics do not deny the influence of other Slavic cultures and broadly understood Orthodoxy on Russia, or the cultural heritage of Western Europe – the Old Russian past is a reason for pride and belief in the significant importance of Russia’s national culture. Contrary to the Slavophiles, they propose that Russia should become Catholic power to fulfil a great civilisational mission towards the West. The article discusses Russian Catholicism as the third trend in the Russian culture of the analysed period, which is closely related to the aforementioned tendencies but it does not fully overlap with any of them. 
VL - 2021
IS - Vol. XVII
PY - 2021
SN - 2451-4985
C1 - 2543-9561
SP - 61
EP - 90
DO - 10.4467/25439561KSR.21.004.14415
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kultura-slowian/article/slowianszczyzna-w-ideach-rosyjskich-jezuitow-w-dziewietnastowiecznej-francji
KW - Russian Catholicism
KW - 19th century
KW - Occidentalists
KW - Slavicity
KW - Slavophiles
KW - Western Europe