The book is a collection of articles by the famous philosopher, cultural scientist and publicist G. Pomerants. The publication includes selected works created over many years since 1953. Among them are “Survived Abstractions”, “Woland’s Problem”, “Russia at the Crossroads of Cultures”, “The Long Road of History”, “Rublev’s Trinity and Trinitarian Thinking”, “ Roots of the Future”, “Through the Horror of the Stars”, “From Mythologems to Milestones of Reality”. The author’s interest in the East is reflected in the work on Krishnamurti and the problems of modern religious nihilism, in articles on Buddhism in India and China.