The Philosophical Credo of Nikolai N. Strakhov in a Correspondence with Pavel D. Golokhvastov
This paper clarifies the archival aspects in philosophical credo of Nikolai N. Strakhov. They are particularly represented in his correspondence with Pavel D. Golokhvastov, one of the least known of his correspondents. Strakhov interprets several key points of religious changes that have occurred with Leo N. Tolstoy and presents his own understanding of the religious problem, which is contextually combined with his critical understanding of “red” nihilism or philosophical spiritualism (Alexander M. Butlerov) and “mind games”, imposed by Vladimir S. Solovyov. Some of the answering letters written be N. Strakhov are semantically multilayered as a special archival group and needed a special study.