This paper presents historiosophical insights of Stanisław Garfein‑Garski, a Polish philosopher and lawyer, who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author puts together fundamental elements that constitute the structure of philosophy of history, as presented systematically in Garfein‑Garski’s Uwagi nad zagadnieniem dziejów powszechnych i polskich („Remarks on the Issue of Universal, and Polish, History”, 1924). He characterizes the concept of national philosophy as developed by Garfein‑Garski. As its main aim, this study undertakes to provide a comprehensive analysis of the status of messianic ideology in Garfein‑Garski’s philosophical and historical considerations. In addition, an attempt has been made to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the place and role of that construction in the dynamics of the historical dispute over Polish messianism.

This article is devoted to the presentation of the philosophical contacts between Andrzej Walicki and his contemporary Russian philosophers. On the basis of already published texts as well as archived correspondence, Walicki’s relations with Sergei Hessen and Dmitry Chizhevsky, and especially with Fr. Georges Florovsky, are discussed. Walicki and Russian thinkers deliberated about historiosophy, the history of Russian philosophy and even theology. In spite of their different perspectives (Florovsky was the founder of the so‑called neo‑Patristic synthesis, which had an exclusively historical significance for Walicki), they played a significant role in popularizing Russian thought in the West, especially in the USA.