The topic of the influence of selected Russian intellectuals, specifically the Russian Slavophile circle, on the thinking of Ľudovít Štúr was already addressed in the works of Tibor Pichler and Tatiana Ivantyšynová. However, the authors themselves raised questions regarding the character and intensity of this influence. This dissertation thus builds on the issue of the "reversibility" of Štúr's thinking, which presupposes changes in Štúr's approach to national emancipation and a shift towards the Russian cultural paradigm. In the context of differing perspectives on Štúr's ideological continuity or discontinuity, the thesis leans towards the former position and formulates the hypothesis that, in terms of ideological content, Štúr's thinking did not exhibit an uncritical shift.

The research is based on the three-phase division of Štúr's thinking, proposed by Tibor Pichler, which includes: 1) evolutionary rationalism, 2) revolutionary monarchism, and 3) tsarist fundamentalism. Štúr is perceived primarily as an intellectual actor in national transformation, who theoretically legitimized the Slovak national emancipation process. Special attention is therefore given to Štúr's specific interpretation of German Romanticism and idealistic-rationalist philosophy in terms of the national-social demands of the Slovak ethnicity. It is assumed that the original handling of the categories of reasonableness, freedom, necessity, history, nation, subjectivity, and objectivity in the first phase already brought Štúr's thinking closer to that of the Slavophiles. In this context, the thesis focuses on Štúr's theologism and Slavic Romanticism. The research objectives include: a comparison of the thinking of Štúr and the Slavophiles, the definition of the degree of Štúr's ideological originality and independence, the classification of Štúr as an intellectual actor of national transformation, and the determination of the degree of Štúr's ideological continuity in the three outlined phases.