Dostoevsky and the legend of the Grand Inquisitor

by Vasily Rozanov

What appears here is the complete text of the third edition [1906] of the book, minus the appendix.

Genres: Christianity, Russian Literature

232 pages, Hardcover

First published June 8, 1972

About the author

Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Рóзанов) was one of the most controversial Russian writers and philosophers of the pre-revolutionary epoch. His views have been termed the "religion of procreation", as he tried to reconcile Christian teachings with ideas of healthy sex and family life and not, as his adversary Nikolai Berdyaev put it, "to set up sex in opposition to the Word". Because of phallic notions in his writings, Klaus von Beyme called him the Rasputin of the Russian intelligence.