From the planned eight volumes of collection of the works in the ecclesiastic history written by ecclesiastic historian, Prof. of the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastic Academy Vassily Vassilievich Bolotov, only four volumes have been published.

The first volume contains his Master thesis (1879) made at the Department of Ecclesiastic History of the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastic Academy. Its title ‘The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity by Origen’ was offered by Prof. I.V. Cheltsov. The thesis was of serious importance for the Russian research field of religious philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. The same volume contains non-published earlier student’s works by B.: ‘On the Difference between Religious, Moral, and Esthetic Feelings’, ‘The Basement for the Doctrine of the Inheritance of Talent’, ‘Pythagoras in the Views of Porphyry’, and some others.

The second, third, and fourth volumes of the collection of his works in the ecclesiastic history contain B.’s lectures on the history of ancient Church (including the period of the Ecumenical Councils), made at the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastic Academy. Those materials were earlier publiched by A.I. Brilliantov in 1907, but only in some parts; the new publication was corrected and completed with archival manuscripts and non-published texts by B. The fourth volume contains also ‘Notes on the History of Christian Monasticism’ — fragments of his lectures about Christian monasticism with a historiographic introduction (‘Protestant Historiography’). Noteworthy, the author tried to link the peculiarities of Egyptian monasticism with some specific of Coptic mentality, and he made a special lecture on that topic: ‘The National Character of Copts and the Peculiarities of Egyptian Ascetics’.

Bolotov V.V. Collection of Works in the Ecclesiastic History. In 8 vol. Vol. 1–4. Moscow: Martis Publishing House, 1999-2002. (in Rus.)