The first major historical and philological study in Russian science of ancient Greek myths and religious cults dedicated to the supreme Olympic deity - Zeus (the second - by A.F. Losev). Pavel Mikhailovich Leontyev (1822-1874) - Russian philologist, one of the founders of the journal "Russian Bulletin," co-publisher (with M.N. Katkov) of the newspaper "Moskovskiye Vedomosti."