The twenty-fifth issue of the almanac is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of its founder, the outstanding humanitarian scientist A.? I.? Gurevich. A special section analyzes the methodological and epistemological credo of the researcher. The section "Imitatio Christi in the religious culture of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times" publishes articles by domestic and foreign authors on how the "imitation of Christ" was comprehended in texts of various genres and how the semantic content of this concept changed from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the New Age. In the section "Is it possible to study the history of everyday life of the Middle Ages?" collected materials from the round table. Specialists in the history of law, political and social history were looking for approaches to productively apply the research apparatus of the history of everyday life to the source base available to medievalists. Of particular interest to the reader will undoubtedly be the traditional heading "Problems of Social History" - this time it includes articles on Venetian policy towards "strangers" in the later Middle Ages.