Anatoly Alekseevich Spassky (1866-1916) - a wonderful Russian historian of the ancient Church, professor at the Moscow Theological Academy, student and successor in the department of the famous A.P. Lebedev. This volume includes his early church historical works created from 1889 to 1893. In addition to the original study on the attitude of the prophets to the ritual law of Moses, this includes capital work "St. Justin and the Synoptic Gospels" and other articles, including a very interesting test lecture delivered at the Moscow Theological Academy on August 17, 1893 at the Department of New Civil History "The Newest Byzantinism and Its Significance."