Vladimir Emelyanenko

This article examines the influence of the literary image of Kozma Prutkov, created by A. K. Tolstoy and his cousins A. M. and V. M. Zhemchuzhnikovs, on the ideology of V. S. Solovyov. It is shown that his attention to the personality and "Compositions" by K. Prutkov was not only due to their humorous nature, but also to their philosophical context. The ideas and images of this character contributed to the development of the universal unity doctrine by V. S. Solovyov, to the formation of the paradoxical nature and universalism of his ideology.