In 1877 he published the essay "Filosofskie nachala tsel'nlgo znaniia" (Philosophical principles of integral knowledge); during 1877–1880 he wrote the study Kritika otvlechennykh nachal (Critique of abstract principles); and in 1878 he began reading the cycle of Chteniia o bogochelovechestve (Lectures on godmanhood).
On March 28, 1881, after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, Solov'ëv, in a public lecture on the incompatibility of capital punishment with Christian morality, called on the new tsar to refrain from executing the assassins. His lecture provoked a fierce reaction; the relations between the philosopher and the authorities were ruined, and he left public and academic service, becoming a professional writer.
In the 1880s his attention was focused on sociopolitical and religious questions. His most important works of this period were Dukhovnye osnovy zhizni (Spiritual foundations of life; 1882–1884), Velikii spor i khristianskaia politika (The great dispute and Christian politics; 1883), Istoriia i budushchnost' teokratii (The history and the future of theocracy; Zagreb, 1886), Tri rechi v pamiat' Dostoevskogo (Three speeches in memory of Dostoevsky; 1881–1883), La Russie et l'Eglise Universelle (Paris, 1889; Russian translation, 1911), and the cycle of essays Natsional'nyi vopros v Rossii (The national question in Russia; 1883–1891).
In the 1890s Solov'ëv returned to philosophical: work proper.
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