Editing List of Russian people (section)

====Philosophers and critics====
{{main|Russian philosophers}}

[[File:Pavel Florensky.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Pavel Florensky]]]]
[[File:KhomyakovA AvtoportretABR.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Aleksey Khomyakov]]]]
[[File:Vladimir Solovyov 1892 by Nikolay Yarochenko.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]]]]
*[[Mikhail Bakhtin]], philosopher, literary critic, [[semiotician]], and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language
*[[Mikhail Bakunin]], well-known [[revolutionary]] and theorist of [[collectivist anarchism]]
*[[Vissarion Belinsky]], influential critic, and editor of two major literary magazines: ''[[Otechestvennye Zapiski]]'', and ''[[Sovremennik]]''
*[[Nikolai Berdyaev]], religious and political philosopher
*[[Helena Blavatsky]], founder of [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]] and the [[Theosophical Society]]
*[[Alexander Bogdanov]], [[physician]], philosopher, science fiction writer, and a key figure in the early history of the [[Bolshevik]]s
*[[Nikolay Chernyshevsky]], famous for his philosophical novel ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What is To Be Done?]]'', he was the leader of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, and an influence on [[Vladimir Lenin]]
*[[Nikolay Danilevsky]], [[natural history|naturalist]], [[Economics|economist]], [[Ethnology|ethnologist]], philosopher, historian, and [[ideologue]] of the [[pan-Slavism]] and [[Slavophile]] movements
*[[Sergei Diaghilev]], art critic and impresario
*[[Nikolay Dobrolyubov]], [[Literary criticism|literary critic]], [[journalist]], and [[revolutionary]] [[Social democracy|democrat]]
*[[Pavel Florensky]], [[Russian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[theologian]], philosopher, mathematician, [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]], and [[inventor]]
*[[Leonid Grinin]], important modern [[sociologist]] and philosopher of history
*[[Alexander Herzen]], highly influential proponent of [[populism]], [[socialism]], and [[collectivization]]
*[[Mikhail Katkov]], conservative journalist and literary critic influential during the reign of [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]]
*[[Ivan Kireyevsky]], literary critic and philosopher, co-founder of the [[Slavophile]] movement
*[[Aleksey Khomyakov]], religious poet and philosopher, co-founder of the [[Slavophile]] movement, coined the term ''[[sobornost]]''
*[[Peter Kropotkin]], naturalist, geographer and one of the world's foremost [[Anarchist communism|anarcho-communist]]s
*[[Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov|Pyotr Lavrov]], prominent Russian philosopher, publicist, sociologist, and [[theorist]] of [[narodism]]
*[[Konstantin Leontiev]], [[Conservatism|conservative]], [[monarchist]] [[reactionary]] philosopher
*[[Aleksei Losev]], one of the most prominent figures in Russian philosophical and religious thought of the 20th century
*[[Nikolay Novikov]], writer and philanthropist, a man of [[Russian Enlightenment]], often considered to be the first Russian [[journalist]]
*[[Peter D. Ouspensky]], [[Western esotericism|esoteric]] philosopher, author of ''[[In Search of the Miraculous]]''
*[[Dmitri Pisarev]], [[Political radicalism|radical]] writer and social critic whose works had an important influence on [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]
*[[Ayn Rand]], [[Objectivism|Objectivist]] philosopher, best known for her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''
*[[Lev Shestov]], influential Ukrainian/Russian [[existentialist]] philosopher, author of the well-known works ''Penultimate Words'' and ''All Things are Possible''
*[[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]], philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century
*[[Vladimir Stasov]], preeminent 19th-century [[art critic]] in Russia
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Christian anarchism|Christian anarchist]] and [[Christian pacifism|pacifist]], whose ideas and social writings were the basis of the [[Tolstoyan]] movement
*[[Leon Trotsky]], [[Bolshevik]], and [[Marxist]], one of the leaders of the [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution of 1917]]