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Slavophile

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a Russian intellectual who favors slavic culture over western culture.

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She was in love with all the new princes and princesses who married into the imperial family; she had been in love with a high dignitary of the Church, a vicar, and a parish priest; she had been in love with a journalist, three Slavophiles, with Komissarov, with a minister, a doctor, an English missionary and Karenin.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Ivan Petrovitch expressed his opinion that the young man was “a Slavophile, or something of that sort”; but that it was not a dangerous development. The old dignitary said nothing.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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