The book contains works on the project "Living Stone: from Mineralogy to Mythopoetics" (Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University). The focus is on stone as an element of the picture of the world, a stone in the perspective of the humanities and natural sciences (from semiotics to mineralogy). In a stone, a symbol of immobility, cold, death, a new hypostasis opens: he moves, grows, breathes, sees, says, he lives.