About the book: 2014 / The name of Yuri Petrovich Mirolyubov (1892–1970) is well known to all lovers and researchers of pre-Christian pagan Rus'. A researcher of Ancient Rus', a writer and journalist, the author of books on Russian folklore, poetic and prose works, Mirolyubov is known primarily for deciphering, translating and publishing the so-called “Book of Vles”, according to him, written by the ancient Magi and preserved on wooden tablets. The publication offered to the attention of readers presents the unjustifiably forgotten, but this has not lost its scientific and general cultural value, book by Yu. P. Mirolyubov “Russian Christian folklore. Orthodox legends." In it, the author with great love collected folk tales and traditions related to Orthodox-pagan folk beliefs. As the author writes: “Many ancient customs have a pagan basis. However, by the First World War, purely Orthodox customs had already formed, so that if there were pagan customs, overlaid with Orthodox content, Orthodox customs also arose, which had a kind of pagan touch thanks to antiquity».