This publication includes the most significant religious, philosophical and cultural works of the Russian thinker and writer V.V. Rozanov (1856 1919). Among them are one of his most famous works, Religion and Culture, essays from the book Near Church Walls, which offer an unconventional interpretation of the problems of Russian culture, Christianity and the church, as well as the first and second parts of the book Sakharna (Before Sugar; In the Sahara), published for the first time.