This article describes a few aspects of the life and work of Feodor Golubinsky, a noted professor of philosophy of the Moscow Theological Academy of the first half of the nineteenth century. It analyses the context of the time in which he lived and in which he formulated his philosophical and theological views, as well as Golubinsky’s thoughts on masonry and the mystical tradition. Finally Golubinsky’s opinion of the thought of F. Sidonsky and N. P. Gilyarov-Platonov is compared with that of Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov).