, but if i were to make a rating on this matter, then, probably, in first place - i would put pyotr chaodaev loved russia very much and scolded it mercilessly, with open eyes, well, for these open eyes he was, in fact, called crazy, and it was his imperial personally who declared him crazy his majesty nicholas i, and this is probably a unique case not only in russian, but also in world history, when the tsar himself, the emperor, yes, makes a medical diagnosis. from this, just like the decembrists, he was a freemason, and he achieved considerable degrees there , he entered the masonic lodges. from prosperity, that is, from the organization where decembrism came from, in fact, the west influenced decembrism itself to a huge extent, influenced, of course, to a huge extent chiodaev himself, although from my point of view there is, as a kind of paradox, around the figure chadayev has many such contradictions and paradoxes, he was, i would say, even more of a westerner, yes, than... he was always on his own, he did not want to imitate anyone, although of course, the fact that he had been to the w