The author examines questions of the history of philosophy in the context of the development of national culture. He seeks to show the originality of the Russian philosophical school, historically manifested in various cultural forms, philosophical currents, and directions. For the author, it was especially important to reveal the distinctiveness of Russian “love of wisdom” (“lyubomudrie”), which historically appeared in various cultural forms and only gradually—and not always—acquired strict features of classical philosophical thinking. By reading V. Zen’kovsky’s “History of Russian Philosophy,” we enter an amazingly complex and diverse world of Russian thought and understand how intellectually rich and philosophical the native cultural tradition itself was.