The series includes works on Russian studies and Slavic studies, written in different genres of scientific research: these are monographs, collections of articles, and publications. The task of the series is to demonstrate the effectiveness of interaction between different areas of humanitarian research, to prove that the variety of methods used in history, philology, art history, ethnography, archeology, etc., leads to the most interesting scientific results. Without putting restrictions on either the topic or the methodology, the founders of the series focus on the scientific novelty of the works offered to the reader.