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The texts collected in the Anthology do not form a comprehensive picture of the perception of P. Florensky’s legacy (in an extensive, quantitative sense), but the key points of the plot are preserved. Some things remained outside the scope of the collection for various reasons, to a lesser extent because the source turned out to be inaccessible, and to a greater extent because its content does not introduce fundamentally new touches into the experience of already existing philosophical criticism. The selection of materials was also affected by the fact that the search for reviews of Florensky’s works was never systematic, so some texts remained simply unknown (especially, perhaps, with regard to archival research). In this sense, the editors will be grateful to those readers who are able to offer materials unknown to us, with the aim of releasing a second, supplemented and changed, edition of the anthology about P. A. Florensky. The existence of private collections does not change the situation. It is unlikely that the completeness of our ideas is facilitated by the fact that Florensky’s specific connections with the thinkers of the religious Renaissance have been studied sporadically. The downside of the growing flow of scientific and amateur studies of Florensky’s legacy is that the texture of the thinker’s dialogues with his contemporaries is still a blank spot. Around this intuitively filled void, thematically popular circles are drawn, such as “Rozanov and Florensky”, “Berdyaev and Florensky”, “Florensky and Vernadsky”. In recent years, a fashion has arisen for “Florensky and S. Bulgakov”. And yet, to this day, the author of “The Pillar...” faces alternately admiring and indignant views of the 20th century, without hope for a completely authentic understanding. The same is connected with the names of most of the major religious thinkers, whose legacy is the focus of the “Russian Way” anthology series published by the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute. Until the period of naive comparativeness is passed, “Russian Way” will have to be content with solving the problems of primarily collecting the voices of the era around each name personally. As a result, we will receive (to begin with, at the level of empirical presentations) those fields of significant intersections of positions, opinions and points of view, within which it will be possible to consider patterns of a typological and structural nature, and on this basis to develop languages ​​for describing the very topic “the fate of the philosopher” (“the fate of concepts”, “the fate of the monument”). Collecting and publishing anthologies of directed reflective experience is only the least that can be done on this path. But even this little obliges the compiler to do something that is not always feasible. We consider it necessary to warn the reader that the names of not all authors whose works made up the bulk of the book could be found in reference and bibliographic literature, and not all names found in the texts could be deciphered. The author's dating of the events of Florensky's life and death is preserved. The book contains two rows of notes: author's (they are placed at the end of the corresponding text and in footnotes) and commentary (they are at the end of the publication, along with the bibliographic apparatus). A bibliography by author does not serve the purpose of an exhaustive list, but rather serves as a reminder. Corner (bills) and square (necessary for the meaning of the insertion) brackets belong to the compiler. The parentheses are the author's. Where possible, the author's punctuation has been preserved. The notes indicate brief information about the author (if they are available in scientific use), decipher the names found, and reveal the meaning of polemical and “obscure” passages. We express our heartfelt gratitude to those who helped in word and deed in preparing the book: P.V. Kuznetsov, Rev. V. Fedorov, V. A. Fateev, S. M. Polovinkin, S.S. Khoruzhy, N.K. Bonetskaya, employees of the Kazan Cathedral, teachers of the Theological Academy and Seminary, workers of museums and libraries of our city.