Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church, but was never a clergyman. Fyodorov was a philosopher, religious thinker and futurologist, library science figure and an innovative educator. He started the movement of Russian cosmism which was a precursor of transhumanism.