About the book: year / "L. M. Lopatin is mistaken in his assumption that I was “excited” by his critical articles about my book. I might be agitated by some unacceptable personal attacks; but their very possibility is eliminated by the categorical statement of my critic in his last article: “I have no doubt at all that Prince Trubetskoy always had the warmest friendly feelings for Solovyov, that Solovyov’s ideas had an irresistible and very lasting influence on him, and that the break with Solovyov’s views was deep crisis in his spiritual life“…»