K. N. Leontyev is an original, original and at the same time close to the Russian Church thinker. He often consulted with the Optina elders about his writings and tested his thoughts with their advice. It was his originality, on the one hand, and churchiness, on the other, that caused him not to gain wide popularity among the reading public, carried away by the ideas of liberalism and political radicalism. Leontiev went against the tide - and the payback for this was his little-known life