The book by P. F. Preobrazhensky, publ. in 1965, did not include a biographical essay, escaping the disturbing story of his arrests, death, and rehabilitation. There are two groups of texts under one cover. The first one includes introductions and prefaces, which were written by P. for the books of the Academia Publishing House. They were for Iliad, and Odyssey, Terentius, Spartacus, Catilina and myths about him, Horatius, and Lucian, as well as about the reflections of historical events in the novels of the nineteenth century (Flaubert – ‘Salambeau’ and ‘St Anthony’; Ch. Kingsley ‘Hypatia’).
The second part is a republication of his book on Tertullian (1926). It is an important text for the history of religion as a non-confessional research in the field of Early Christianity of the third century; and it is still actual.