The book of the professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Illarion Alekseevich Chistovich (1828-1893), published in 1873 and then reprinted in 1899, has long become a bibliographic rarity. Despite the fact that more than a hundred years have passed since the book was written, Chistovich's work is still the most complete and detailed presentation of the history of the Russian Bible. As an appendix to the book by I.A. Chistovich is obsessed with an article by the chairman of the Russian Bible Commission, professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy I.E. Evseev "Cathedral and the Bible," published in 1917.