Monografiya posvyashchena analizu obraza patriarkha Nikona (1605-1681) v massovoy kul'ture i istoriografii. Vliyanie ideologii, kak imperatorskogo, tak i sovetskogo vremeni, opredelilo formirovanie ryada istoriograficheskikh stereotipov v otnoshenii sobytiy i otdel'nykh deystvuyushchikh lits tserkovno-gosudarstvennykh otnosheniy.Vokrug obraza Patriarkha Nikona prelomlyalis' istoriograficheskie syuzhety XVII v.: prichiny vozniknoveniya raskola, ego kharakternye cherty, idei, eskhatologicheskaya sostavlyayushchaya, ego posledstviya dlya zhizni tserkvi i gosudarstva. V monografii analiziruetsya formirovanie politicheskoy mifologii s namerennym markirovaniem "kul'turnykh geroev" i "antigeroev", a takzhe mekhanizm formirovaniya obraza Patriarkha Nikona v massovoy kul'ture khudozhestvennoy literature, kinematografe, teleserialakh, v Internete. Kniga zasluzhivaet vnimaniya istorikov, filosofov, politologov, kul'turologov, vsekh interesuyushchikhsya istoriey Rossii i Russkoy PravoslavnoyTserkvi.