The collection completes the project of the Historical Library for the reprint from the GPIB funds of the works of the famous researcher of Russian Freemasonry Tira Ottovna Sokolovskaya (1878-1942). It includes articles published in leading magazines at the beginning of the 20th century. ("Russian Archive," "Russian Antiquity," "Voice of the Past," etc.). These materials, touching upon various aspects of the existence of the Order of Free Masons in Russia at the end of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th centuries, have not lost their relevance today both for researchers and for independent study of the history of the Masonic movement in Russia.