The values and meanings of the "national project": palimpsest and the apocrypha

Global challenges, ethno-religious, national, regional conflicts invariably bring on the foreground issues of national, confessional specifics. The author considers in this article the problems of national identity, analyzing them in the context of the dominant events of Russian history. "The national project" has "rewritten"many times, changed the vector determines the direction of further development, however civilizational code, values and meanings underlying level remained the same. They remained in the national consciousness, passing through "fire and water" historical transformations, like the Apocrypha were depicted in cultural traditions.