"Имя мое грешное помяните..."

The book is dedicated to the founder of the popular temperance movement Ivan Alexeyevich Churikova. The phenomenon of his life and work has not yet received an objective assessment of the research. His personality, despite the wide popularity, is still a mystery and raises many questions. The composition of the collection includes documents from the archives of St. Petersburg and private collections. Most of the documents published. The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers interested in the history of religious life in Russia in the first third of the XX century, and the church community.