Aksakov's gravestone in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.

Portrait by Ilya Repin.

Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Аксаков; October 8 [O.S. September 26] 1823 - February 8 [O.S. January 27] 1886, Moscow) was a Russian littérateur and notable Slavophile. He was the son of Sergey Aksakov and younger brother of Konstantin Aksakov. He was born in what is now Bashkortostan.

Ivan took part in the Crimean War, and promoted the ideas of Pan-Slavism in the Russian press during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878. D.S. Mirsky considered him the finest Russian journalist, after Alexander Herzen. Aksakov also wrote the first biography of his father-in-law, the Slavophile poet Fyodor Tyutchev.

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