The collective monograph is the second issue of the ongoing publication devoted to the problem of Dostoevsky and Religion: Dostoevsky's connection with the Gospel, with patristic literature is investigated; the embodiment of the national-religious ideal in the work of Dostoevsky: comprehension of the writer's religious searches by Russian philosophical criticism of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The book includes research by American scholars demonstrating original approaches to studying Dostoevsky's work.