Slavophile
Americannoun
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a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
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one of a group of mid-19th century Russian intellectuals who favored traditional cultural practices over Western innovations, especially in political and religious life.
adjective
noun
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a person who admires the Slavs or their cultures
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(sometimes not capital) (in 19th-century Russia) a person who believed in the superiority and advocated the supremacy of the Slavs
adjective
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admiring the Slavs and Slavonic culture, etc
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(sometimes not capital) (in 19th-century Russia) of, characteristic of, or relating to the Slavophiles
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Yet later in the book, Turgenev informs the Slavophile Dostoyevsky: “You should know that I … consider myself a German, not a Russian, and I’m proud of it!”
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019
Nikolay Danilevskiy, another prominent Slavophile, disputed that Europe was a continent at all and argued that it should instead be considered just an appendage of Asia.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017
Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with the Russian character.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slavophile critics of another kind were Strakhov and Danilevsky, like Dostoyevsky, disciples of Grigoriev, who preached the last word of Slavophilism and were opposed to all foreign innovations.
From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice
I have been a Slavophile in my time, I used to pester Aksakov with letters, and I was a Ukrainophile, and an archæologist, and a collector of specimens of peasant art.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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