It has long been a commonplace that Kant's philosophy was rela tively unimportant in Russia, the land of Schelling and Hegel par excellence. Kant's ideas, it seems, did not keep the youth of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 1840s up until all hours, delaying dinner for the sake of discussing the possibility of synthetic a priori judg ments. The importance of Kant for Russian thought at the close of the nineteenth century, in contrast, is both undeniable and the object of increasing scholarly attention. Kant's influence, it turns out, can be felt not only among those who explicitly identified themselves as Kantians or Neo-Kantians, but among writers, poets, social thinkers, and religious philosophers. All the same, it seems peculiar that the reception of Kant, whose ideas Vladimir Solov'?v considered "the single main turning point in the history of human thought,"1 should occur so late in Russia almost a century after the philosopher's death. In the present essay, I would like to look at the ideas of the leading exponent of Neo-Kantianism at St. Petersburg University, Alexander Vvedensky, in the larger context of Russian Kantian ism. Vvedensky (1856-1925) is practically identified with Russian academic Neo-Kantianism at the turn of the century; his interpre tation of Kant was immensely influential for an entire generation of students. I would like to suggest that, indeed, the story of Kant in Russia is less simple, and rather more engaging, than the above sketch indicates; Vvedensky's philosophy points to a more compli cated, "homegrown" context of the renewed interest in Kant in the 1890s.