"...Any genuine creativity involuntarily looks decades and centuries ahead, prompting a continuously renewed interview, dialogue" - these words of the remarkable Russian scientist, historian and philosopher Evgeny Borisovich Rashkovsky can be attributed to him with good reason. His life path and scientific activity are most succinctly defined by the word "creativity". Evgeny Borisovich was born on September 23, 1940 in Moscow; his father was a lawyer, his mother was a teacher at the Institute. The future scientist's childhood coincided with the tragic war and post-war years. Since school, having an interest in socio - humanitarian knowledge-world history, culture, literature, he enters the Historical and Archival Department of the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute, which he graduated from in 1964. Classmates recall that from the first student years, Evgeny Borisovich attracted the attention of teachers and students with his extraordinary thinking and extensive erudition in various fields. areas of humanitarian knowledge. E. B. Rashkovsky started his career in science as a Slavic historian - his thesis and first publications were devoted to the history of the Polish labor movement. The experience of direct study of sources predetermined one of the scientific directions of the scientist's scientific activity - source studies: translations, commented publication of archival sources, textual comparative studies. From the very beginning of his work, Evgeny Borisovich showed a penchant for interdisciplinary research in the context of his constant interest in the spiritual, cultural and human dimensions of history. His worldview was formed under the influence of several traditions - Russian culture and philosophy of the XVIII-XIX centuries, the religious tradition of Christianity as such and Orthodox in particular, the European culture and rationality of the New Age and the Polish noble culture of the XIX century. Working from 1964 to 1967 in the group of refe ... Read more