Culture figures, philanthropists, spiritual pastors. Bokhanov A.N.

The heroes of the book of the outstanding Russian historian Alexander Bokhanov became the true patriots of our middle name - people who disinterestedly and sacrificingly loved their country, whose feat of the selfless service of Russia contributed to its millennial creation and prosperity, its unprecedented magnitude and power. Among them are representatives of the Russian world, selflessly loved their country and worked for the sake of its good: entrepreneurs (S.I. Mamontov, K.T. Soldatenkov, L.S. Polyakov, S.T. Morozov), cultural figures (A.S. Pushkin, F.M. Blok), figures of the Russian Orthodox Church (St. Moskovsky Filaret and John of Kronstadt). Many of the presented heroes have become symbols of various eras; The life of each of them is dramatic, contradictory, but loyalty to the moral values, chosen by them once and for all, helped to survive and illuminate “a bright light and the personality and fatherland”.