Nathan Yakovlevich Eidelman is a historian, literary critic, writer, publicist, whose contribution to the domestic historiography of the 20th century can hardly be overestimated. He left a rich creative heritage - more than 20 books and numerous articles, essays, reviews in periodicals. The main area of ​ ​ scientific interests of N. Ya. Eidelman was the history of Russian culture and the social movement in the 18th-19th centuries.