“The Raising of Lazarus” by Vladimir Sharov is an extremely rich novel, devoid of compositional voids, through the fascinating plot of which an original historiosophical treatise slyly peeks through, surprising with the density and quality of thought. The author undertakes the impossible - to justify the Red Terror through God and Christianity. Or vice versa: to justify God with the Red Terror. The text is built on a collision of paradoxes: Tolstoyans, holy fools, Fedorovites, security officers, sectarians, anthroposophists - all the characters in the novel are building their own utopia, the condition for the construction of which is the resurrection of the dead, the entire human race, right up to the progenitor Adam... The author has revised and supplemented it especially for this edition text of the novel.Today, Vladimir Sharov is a champion in literary provocations, and his books are one of the favorite readings of Russian intellectuals.