From the Editor
The thematic issue of the journal brings together researchers whose interests include studying the traditional spiritual culture of Russia over a wide time range: from the late Middle Ages to the Modern Age. Using various research methods of special historical and philological disciplines, the authors of this issue introduce and analyze journalistic and chronicle works of scribes of Ancient Russia, collections and polemical works of old believers of different agreements, messages of Siberian hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 17th and 20th centuries, scientific materials of participants of academic expeditions of the 18th century, memoirs about Siberia.