What and how are Baptists read in modern Russia In a small cycle of materials devoted to far from the obvious aspects of religious life in Russia, we have already figured out what books should be read about the history of Pashkovites , Stundists , about the life of the Baptists before the revolution and after . Now Philip Nikitin asked the Baptism believers themselves, to tell about his favorite books and reading practices, as well as about anxieties related to them.

From the book "Methastoria. Historical imagination in Europe of the XIX century " “Methastoria” is classic, 1973, the work of historian Hayden White, who produced almost a scandal in a professional environment. The author argued that the creators of historical research are guided by rhetorical and literary strategies no less than a strict statement of facts. We publish a large passage dedicated to the text of Carl Marx about the French Revolution of 1848 and the events that followed it.

About the first Russian translation of one work of Cornelia Agrippa Testesheamsky For the first time, a full Russian translation “On the Non -Freight and Sweet of World Arts and Sciences” - the scientific work of Cornelia Agrippa Testesheim, the famous humanist and thinker of the Renaissance, which served as the prototype of the Goethe Faust, came out. Artem Serebrennikov tells about this “Encyclopedia of Renaissance Erudition with the“ minus ”sign for readers of Gorky.

7 books about Mayakovsky published in recent years Research devoted to the life and work of the best, most talented poet of the Soviet era began to fade somewhat with the beginning of the post-Soviet era, but in the new millennium they experienced a real renaissance, which continues to this day.