Who is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel from Russian Thinkers and what is their importance?

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the most influential philosopher of the 19th century. He developed a philosophy that profusely affected the German Romantic movement, which in turn, spread throughout Europe. Berlin calls early and mid-nineteenth-century Russia an "intellectual dependency" of Germany because of the influence of Hegel, Shiller and other German Romantics. This influence was in large part due to the Tsar's preference for sending the children of Russian noblemen to German rather than French universities, since France had been the homeland of the French Revolution and the July Revolution of 1830.