Vasily Rozanov was born in the city of the Window of the Kostroma province in the large family of the official of the Forest Agency Vasily Fedorovich Rozanova (1822-1861). Early lost his parents, brought up by the elder brother Nikolai (1847-1894). In 1870 he moved with brothers to Simbirsk, where his brother was taught in the gymnasium.
After the gymnasium, he entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, where lectured S. M. Solovyova, V. O. Kleevsky, F. E. Korsha, and others. On the fourth year, the scholarship named after A. S. Khomyakova was awarded. At the same time he married A. P. Suslova, former in the 1860s by the girlfriend of Dostoevsky.
After graduating from the university in 1882, refused to keep the exam on the master, deciding to engage in free creativity. In 1882-1893, he taught in the gymnasiums of Bryansk, Simbirsk, Yelets, White, Vyazma). His first book "On Understanding. Experience in the study of nature, borders and the inner structure of science as whole knowledge "(1886) (was one of the options for the Hegelian Justification of Science) did not have success. In the same year, Suslov left Rosanov, but refused (and refused his life) to go to the official divorce.
Literary-philosophical Etude Rosanova "Legend about the Great Inquisitor F. M. Dostoevsky" (1891) was greater fame. ; Later, Rozanov became close to them as a member of the religious and philosophical assembly (1901-1903). In 1900, Merezhkovsky, Minsk, Hippius and Rozanov, a religious and philosophical society is based. From the end of the 1890s, Rosanov became a well-known journalist Lock Selfofili, worked in Russian Bulletin magazines and "Russian Review", published in the New Time newspaper.
