For the first time in Russian - a translation of a folk book about the famous sorcerer and necromancer Dr. John Faustus, published in England in 1787. Published exactly 200 years after the appearance of the German “History of Dr. Johann Faustus” (1587), this short English version serves an example of the formation of popular ideas about magic and witchcraft. Engravings from the English edition of 1787 were used as illustrations. The book was published in the series “Gemma magica. Materials and research on the history of magic and the occult” from the publishing house Salamandra P.V.V.