Against the Current. Academician Ukhtomsky and his Biographer

Documentary Saga covers more than one hundred years of the spiritual life of Russia under the iron fifth of the royal, and then the Soviet regimes. In the center of the story - the fate of the great physiologist, the philosopher and religious thinker of Academician A. A. Ukhtomsky (1875-1942), as well as his student and the first biographer V. L. Merkulov (1908-1980) - the historian of science, a long-term prisoner of Gulag. Readers will get acquainted with the circle of scientists, writers, religious and politicians whose destinies directly or indirectly intertwined with the main characters.
Unknown and little-known materials are widely used in the book, including the author"s correspondence with V. L. Merkulov, which was considered lost