At the end of the first semester of 1982, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Victoria in Toronto entitled "Telling the Truth About Yourself." The topic of the lectures, which are part of the project of genealogy of the modern Western subject, was the historical formation of hermeneutics of itself. By analyzing that particular type of self-knowledge and self-relationship, which is typical of Greco-Roman askesis, In which the subject must master himself, He became the ruler of himself.... Foucault begins to study the coup , During the first centuries of Christianity , especially in monastic communities , This led to the birth of the hermeneutics itself,. understood as research and deciphering by the subject of its inner essence. To define such a coup Foucault in these lectures introduces a previously unused distinction between two forms of asceticism, one focused on truth and the other on reality. Along with the lectures, Foucault holds a seminar in Toronto dedicated to a detailed study of the texts of ancient authors, on which his analysis of the ancient culture of himself is based. He also gives an outline of the various meanings of the concept of parresia in antiquity, which will be the main theme of his last works. Translation into Russian of these lectures and seminars is undertaken for the first time.