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Nikolay Danilevsky

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Also known as Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky

Russian academic (1822-1885)

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Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky

Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky (Russian: Николай Яковлевич Данилевский; 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1822 – 19 November [O.S. 7 November] 1885) was a Russian naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian and ideologue of pan-Slavism and the Slavophile movement. He expounded a circular view of world history.

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