Pavel Kuznetsov
SummaryAmong the Russian thinkers of the first half of the 20th century, Shestov and Berdiaev are the most well-known philosophers in the West. They are usually mentioned as representatives of a specific Russian “religious existentialism” who developed their most important ideas before Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Jean-Paul Sartre. The article analyses the similarities and differences between their philosophical positions. Their personal relations, correspondence, essays and reviews written about one other, and especially the main topic of discussion in their life – truth, faith and reason – are discussed....