About the book: 2011 / Boris Kostin - author of more than a dozen books, including in the "Young Guard" series "ZhZL" - presents the biography of Simeon of Polotsk - a unique personality only for the seventeenth century, but also for subsequent centuries. At the same time, the writer fully presents the contradictory assessments that were given to the activities of Simeon of Polotsk by his contemporaries, as well as the historical background against which the life of the outstanding educator took place.