Sektanty. Ocherki po istorii narodnyh religioznyh dvizheniy

Dmitriy Nikolaevich Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskiy (1853-1920) - literaturoved i lingvist, avtor rabot o Pushkine, Gogole, Tolstom, Turgeneve, Chehove i dr. Filologiya stala glavnym ego delom ne srazu: samye pervye issledovaniya Kulikovskogo posvyascheny sektantstvu, k izucheniyu kotorogo podtalkivalo samo vremya - nachinaya s shestidesyatyh godov XIX stoletiya sekty byli predmetom shirokoy obschestvennoy polemiki. V nastoyaschey knige predstavleny tri esse Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskogo, opublikovannye v zhurnale "Slovo" (1878-1880), a takzhe rabota "Zapiski yuzhnorusskogo socialista" (1877), v kotoroy on, pomimo prochego, obosnovyvaet neobhodimost' izucheniya sekt. Narodnye religioznye dvizheniya na rubezhe XIX-XX stoletiy sygrali znachitel'nuyu rol', i ih opyt po-prezhnemu vazhen dlya ponimaniya russkoy revolyucii.