Professor of the University of Constance (Germany) I.P. Smirnov, author of the monographs "Artistic meaning and evolution of poetic systems (1977), "Psychodiachronology" (1994), "Homo homini philosophus. "(1999) and others, in "Megahistory" sums up his many years of modeling cultural dynamics. By "mega-history" Smirnov means the change of such cultural ensembles as the early Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, etc.