Career
He co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireyevsky, and became one of its most distinguished theoreticians. Khomyakov"s whole life was centred on Moscow. He viewed this "thousand-domed city" as the epitome of the Russian way of life.
Equally successful as a landlord and conversationalist, he published very little during his lifetime.
Alexander Herzen"s My Past and Thoughts contains a delightful characterisation of Khomyakov. The West failed to solve human spiritual problems, as it stressed competition at the expense of cooperation.
Khomyakov"s own ideals revolved around the term sobornost, being the Slavonic equivalent of catholicity found in the Nicene Creed and loosely translated as "togetherness" or "symphony". Khomyakov viewed the Russian obshchina as a perfect example of sobornost and extolled the Russian peasants for their humility.
Khomyakov died from cholera, infected by a peasant he had attempted to treat.
The Soviets arranged for their disinterment and had them reburied at the new Novodevichy Cemetery.