Russian religious-philosophical thought and national history. Review of the scholarly journal Russian-Byzantine herald, 2021, No. 2 (5), 188 pp., issued by the St. Petersburg Theological Academy

The review is a study of the content of the scholarly journal Russian-Byzantine Herald , no. 2 (5), 2021, issued by the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. The journal, founded in 2018, specializes in the research of specific features of the national religious philosophy reflecting the continuity of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Byzantine spiritual legacy. The present issue is devoted mainly to the analysis of the religious and philosophical aspects of ideological struggle in Russian mid-19thcentury culture. In accordance with an already established tradition, a considerable place is allotted to the materials connected with jubilee dates, in this case - the 220th anniversary of an outstanding historian, author and journalist Mikhail Pogodin. Pogodin's patriotic and Orthodox stand is explored in diverse aspects: as a state-oriented historian, engaged in ideological struggle with the liberal opposition, as a conservative thinker who has close yet complicated relationships with the Slavophiles, and as the editor of the Moskvitianin journal. There are also articles devoted to Pogodin's ideological predecessors and contemporaries. As a result, the articles of the issue are marked with a thematic unity.