The Question of Women's Rights (1897)
Vladimir S. Solovyov
October 1, 1995
Vladimir S. Solovyov (1853-1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Russian philosopher. He was a close friend of Fyodor Dostoevsky, despite the difference in their ages, until the great writer's death. He also carried on a continuing (cordial) debate with Leo Tolstoy, attempting to point out the great writer's distortions in his rendition of Christian teaching. A controversial figure who has been referred to as the first Russian ecumenical thinker, Solovyov not only took on the role of Christian apologist, but was also a well-respected essayist and poet, exerting posthumously a strong influence on the so-called "second generation" of Symbolist Russian writers, among others.
Recently, a vibrant interest in Solovyov has been rekindled in Russia, which coincides, unsurprisingly, with the demise of Marxist-Leninist ideological orthodoxy. This essay, dated April 27, 1897, appeared in the journal Rus' under the title "Zhenskiy vopros" and has not until now been translated into English. This piece constitutes part of a forthcoming fully annotated translated collection of V. S. Solovyov's essays on morality, politics, and human rights.
It occupies not the least important place among the multitude of "questions" which accompanies us as we prepare to cross over into the twentieth century. As love, according to the opinion of one student of theology, is divided into the sincere and insincere kinds, so too are all questions in general divided into serious and useless ones. We should acknowledge as serious those behind which stands some real fact, some kind of transpiring change in the life or the consciousness of people-a change of more or less common and, hence, of social significance. We should acknowledge the question of women's ...
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