Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Vladimir Solovyev was born in 1853, the son of the historian Sergius Mikhailovich Solovyev. He became a junior professor at the University of Moscow at the age of twenty-one, where he remained until his lectures gave the authorities the excuse they needed to dismiss a man whose Western sympathies had made him unpopular. He spent the rest of his life writing and travelling. He died on 31 July 1900.