This s article is an attempt to analyze the ideological and political evolution that took place in the views of the famous Russian scientist, public figure and ideologist of Pan-Slavism V. I. Lamansky. In this work the authors are analyzing two later texts of V. I. Lamansky (“A Look at the Fates of South-Western Slavs” (1900) and “Is it possible to compare Russia with Austria-Hungary in regard of nationalities?” (1900), using methods of political textology. It is shown that in these articles, devoted to the state of the Western Slavs at the beginning of the XX century, which were published in the Viennese magazine “Slavic century”, Lamansky adhered to the idea of “Cultural Pan-Slavism”. According to this idea Slavs needed to accept a single literary language that the Russian language should have become. The authors note that Lamansky, like all Slavophiles, saw the “Slavic question” included in the antagonism of the «two worlds», Greco-Slavic and Romano-Germanic, which have differences in religious, civil and «moral» nature. Nevertheless, at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, Lamansky’s “Cultural Pan-Slavism”, even with changes, already seemed too vague and gave way to “Cultural and Economic Pan-Slavism”.
