Boris de Schloezer and Leo Shestov

Abstract

Boris de Schloezer is a musicalandliterary critic, a brilliant translator, a thinker and a writer. Schloezer was a link between Russian and French cultures. He translated into French most of Leo Shestov’s works, due to him Russian philosopher became well-known in France. In the article presented the major landmarks in Schloezer's creative evolution, gave a brief review of his main ideas and discovered (determined) Leo Shestov's influence on Schloezer’s worldview, that we can see in his article «Nietzsche and Dostoevsky».