He became an Orthodox Christian, and also an adherent of the Slavophiles: his beliefs at that time were influenced by the writings of Aleksey Khomyakov.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy | Aleksey Semyonovich Vishnyakov | Aleksey Kuropatkin | Aleksey Khomyakov | Aleksey Burago | Khomyakov | Aleksey Yakimenko | Aleksey Trubetskoy | Aleksey Remizov | Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov | Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov | Aleksey Kudryavtsev | Aleksey Krupnyakov | Aleksey Akatyev |
Among the authors who regularly contributed to Russkaya Beseda, were Sergei Aksakov, Vladimir Dal, Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Alexander Ostrovsky, Aleksey Khomyakov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Ivan Nikitin, Taras Shevchenko.