2026/1(44)
Contents
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Stylistic features of the Stroganov' glassblowing plastics of the 1960s - 1980s
History of the horse-breeding portrait as a utilitarian genre in the traditions of Russian art of the late
XVIII - XIX centuries
“Expedition in Time and Space”
on Lake Onega
Military education of servicemen of the Russian army in the second half of the 19th century – early
20th century: historical experience, lessons
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
I.A. Ilyin on Pushkin's heritage
and the antitheses of its interpretation
Yalta branch of the Crimean State Philharmonic in the cultural
and historical retrospective
of development
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
Tourism as a factor in preserving
the unique cultural heritage of
the Kenozersky National Park
Reconstruction vs «Disneyification» of cultural heritage
Patterns of non-governmental digital heritage preservation in Russia
Current problems of the actuel system of protected zones for cultural heritage sites in Russia
Experience of preserving authentic winemaking as part of the cultural heritage of the region (based on
the material of the Spanish movement of «terroirists»)
MUSEOLOGY
Memorial landscape on the coast
of the Sea of Azov: the first steps to organize a museum complex in the
homeland of Fedor Konyukhov
Prerequisites for the emergence
and features of the functioning
of museums of Russian writers
in the CIS member states
Role of volunteers in preserving landscape art, using the example
of estate complexes in central Russia
REVIEWS
»Archaeology of the Russian Arctic»: book review
Publ. 10/02/2026
Archives
DOI 10.34685/HI.2025.42.91.027.
Izbachkov Yu.
Documents of the OGPU and NKVD as а source of information
about the culture of occult organizations
Abstract. Among the sources on the activities of occult organizations, interrogations, confrontations, and indictments in criminal and intelligence cases of the 1920s and 1930s are of particular importance. The OGPU and NKVD solved their specific tasks, but in their documents we find important details concerning occultists that are absent from other sources. Evaluating these materials from the point of view of various criteria, we can admit that the documents of the early and mid-1920s more objectively represent reality, although individual significant circumstances were revealed only in 1940. In general, the documents of the OGPU and NKVD allow us to create an idea of the reasons for the emergence of occult societies in Soviet Russia at that time.
Key words: paramasonic organizations, esoteric societies, Astromov-Kirichenko, Mebes, Belyustin, lodge Astrea, theosophists, intelligence agent, confrontation, indictment, Martinism, Rosicrucians, criminal evidence.
Izbachkov Yuri Sergeevich,
Applicant post-graduate student,
Likhachev Russian Research Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage (Moscow)
Email: strax5@list.ru
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2025/3(42)
URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/774.html
Founder
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
Publisher
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
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date: 17.12.2014
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