KUDRAVTSEV-PLATONOV, VIKTOR DIMITRIEVIĆ. - B. 3 Oct. 1828, d. 3 Dec. 1891, Russian philosopher. A professor at the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy, he had Solov'ev and Prince (later Tsar) Nicola II among his pupils. K., in the philosophical tradition of the Academy, was the intermediate link between F. A. Golubinskij (who taught from 1818 to 1854) and A. I. Vvedenskij (who taught there from about 1888 to 1912). In his numerous works he created a systematic body of idealism, connected above all with Jakobi (1743-1819) and with idealistic theism of various kinds, from Baader to Lotze. He sought to synthesize reason and faith, and to justify faith.
His Works, in 3 vols., were published by the Confraternity of St. Sergio (Serghiev Posad 1892-94): vol. I (1893-94) contains an introduction of 182 pages on the life, philosophy, and importance of K.; followed by K.'s investigations on the introduction to philosophy and on gnoseology; vol. II (1892-93), on natural theology, includes among other things an important work: Religion, Its Essence and Origin; vol. III (1894) concerns cosmology and rational psychology.