Nikolai Trubetskoy: Criticism of Russian Eurocentrism

April 16 marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetskoy, an outstanding linguist and scientist, one of the founders of Eurasianism. He has gone down in history as one of the pioneers of the critique of Eurocentrism. Although Slavophiles had reasoned on a similar basis before him in the conflict with Westernizers, Trubetskoy's (and the Eurasians') critique was more profound and based on a positive program that a…