Competitors to Christianity. St. Petersburg, 1907 (some republ.)
Ancient Greek Religion. Petrograd, 1918. (some republ.)
Religion of Hellenism. Petrograd, 1922. (some republ.)
The History of Classical Religions. Vol. I-III. Vol. I: Ancient Greek Religion; Vol. II: Religion of Hellenism; Vol. III: Hellenism and Judaism / transl. from Polish Ilya Bey. St. Petersburg, Quadrivium Publishing House, 2014.
The History of Classical Religions. Vol. IV: Religion of the Republican Rome / transl. from Polish Ilya Bey. St. Petersburg, Quadrivium Publishing House, 2014, 864 p.
The History of Classical Religions. Vol. V, Book 1: Religion of the Roman Empire / transl. from Polish Ilya Bey. St. Petersburg, Quadrivium Publishing House, 2018, 400 p.
Numerous lectures made by F. F. Zelinsky (1859-1944) for public of various levels of knowledge – in Russian at the St. Petersburg University, and in Polish after his moving to Warsawa in 1922 – laid into the foundation of the cycle of his published works on the history of Classical religions. Some of his lecture courses were published in St. Petersburg/Petrograd (Competitors to Christianity, 1907; Ancient Greek Religion, 1918; Religion of Hellenism, 1922). In Poland Z. started a multi-volumed series ‘Religions of the Classical World’, which contained the reworked texts of the earlier published courses, as well as new parts on other chronological periods (Hellenism and Judaism, 1927; Religion of the Republican Rome, 1933-1934). Materials for the final two issues on religions of the Roman Empire and Early Christianity were lost during the battle for Warsaw in 1939; the manuscript was restored by Z. in Bavaria in 1939-1944, but it was not published in his life time. They were published in Polish in the late 1990-s, in Poland, and only now they are coming to Russian readers.
The works by Z., obviously, become obsolete in their sources, which has grown significantly during the passed century. However, they are of certain interest not only as a monument of the history of humanitarian thought. The author was solid and thorough in his methods; he had deep and exquisite knowledge of arts, art criticism; he was also poet Symbolist. And his five volumes on the history of Classical religions gives a wholesome survey of the epoch based not only on the description of ancient beliefs, but on the attempt to understand the very sense of psychology of their adepts. He was ahead of his time when included Early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism into the general picture of Classical religions; but Z. was a man of his time in their characteristic which keeps the spirit of 1930-s.