A collection of articles by M.A. Reisner ‘State and Believer’ was published in 1905. It included works written in 1899—1902, which had been designed for the unfinished dissertation on the relations between the Church and the State, and the State and an individual Believer; the author succeeded to write about such aspects of the topic as the right of faith, persecutions of pagans and heretics in Christian Byzantine, religious intolerance in Middle Ages, the Reformation and the right of ecclesiastic reforms, ‘religious police’ in Russia and in Western Europe (basics of the moral police supervision), the concepts of Christian conscious, apostasy, social good, and absolutist state. In the introduction to the book, R. wrote: “the collected articles were based on a certain worldview of the author; it includes — with a natural necessity — certain political ideals, as well”. The basic idea of the book that ‘any despotism corrupts, and the spiritual one most of all”. That is why a special place in the book was taken with an article written as a reaction at an attempt to reform the State-Church relations in Russia: ‘The Freedom of Conscious and the Law of April 17, 1905’, concluded: “The state of police is triumphant; it did not change its system, in spite of the recent concessions”.