Most likely, many people know about the activities of Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (1875-1933) as People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR. Less is known that Lunacharsky was a major scientist, critic, talented writer and publicist. In his extensive creative heritage there are many works devoted to the origin of religion, the study of its historical forms, the problems of the relationship between religion and culture.