About the book: 1981 / Not the least important place in the extensive literary heritage of the writer and thinker Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontyev (1831–1891) is occupied by the epistolary, has not yet been collected and published in full. One of the closest correspondents in the last period of K. N. Leontiev’s life was Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov (1856–1919). Letters to V.V. Rozanov K.N. Leontyev were first published by the magazine “Russian Messenger” (1903). Among the persons mentioned in them are F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy, Vl. S. Solovyov and K. P. Pobedonostsev, I. S. Aksakov and N. N. Strakhov, M. N. Katkov and V. P. Meshchersky, A. M. Gorchakov and N. P. Ignatiev, elders of Athos and Optina deserts, Russian and Greek church hierarchs, ministers and diplomats. Introduction, comments and afterword by V. V. Rozanov.