The aim of the article is the consideration of debating questions of studying of the ideas of «Holly Russia» and «Moscow – the Third Rome» in the history of Russian cultural, historical and philosophical thought (S.M. Solovyov, V.V. Zenkovsky, A.N. Berdyaev, N.S. Trubetskoy, B.A. Uspensky, I.N. Danilevsky, M.B. Plyukhanova, N.V. Sinitsyn, etc.). The tasks of this work are the consideration of time and sources of emergence of these ideas, and also their connection. Historiographic review can recognize the religious roots of these formulas, as well as the continuity between them. The author uses methods: descriptive, comparative and historical, scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. The study involves the works which have already become classics and the works by modern authors.
