This collection is a unique edition, which for the first time collected in one book the relevant and now thoughts of D. C. Likhachev about the history and culture of Russia, its place in world history, its purpose and geopolitical role in Eurasia, about the most important spiritual qualities of man, about the intelligence of the true and imaginary, about the ecology of culture and the preservation of the environment on planet Earth One of the largest Russian scientists-humanists of the 20th century, historian, philologist, prominent public figure Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev personified a type of a true Russian intellectual, a patriot of his country, alien, however, nationalism in all its manifestations. He became one of the organizers and inspirers of the Soviet (then Russian) Fund of Culture, and for the sake of preserving the national culture he did immeasurably much. His thoughts, speeches, aphorisms, cleared, where possible, of censorship "layers", for the first time become available to the reader in a comprehensive form.