DANILEVSKIJ, Nikolaj Jakovlevic. - Russian political writer, b. in Moscow on Dec. 10, 1822, d. in Tiflis on Nov. 19, 1885, best known especially for a book of his, *Russia and Europe* (St. Petersburg 1871), in which, perhaps not without reason, there was seen expressed by a man who held no political office a line of thought pleasing to the leaders of Russian foreign policy.
An advocate of a pan-Slav ideal, he dreamed of a great federation of Slavic peoples, including also Greece and Romania, with Russia at its head and Constantinople as its capital. Less important is another of his works entitled *Darwinism* (ibid. 1885). D.’s figure has been frequently recalled in recent times because of certain aspects of his thought that seem to foreshadow current orientations in the foreign policy of the U.S.S.R.