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'Masonstvo okruzheno oreolom tayn. Po odnim legendam, masony vedut svoe proiskhozhdenie ot vremeni bibleyskih patriarhov ili yazycheskih misteriy, po drugim, — ot vremeni Solomonova hrama ili Krestovyh po- hodov. Bol'shinstvo issledovateley schitayut, chto kornyami znamenitogo dvizheniya byli srednevekovye stroitel'nye gil'dii kamenshchikov i is- kaniya evropeyskih intellektualov. CHto predstavlyaet soboy masonstvo? Kogda byli sozdany pervye orde- na i gde raspolagalis' ih lozhi? Pochemu masony nazyvali svoyu deyatel'- nost' «korolevskim iskusstvom»? V kakoy period mirovoy istorii vol'- nye kamenshchiki stali chast'yu russkoy kul'turnoy zhizni, a glavnoe — kto byli ih izvestnye predstaviteli? Sergey Karpachev pytaetsya ob'ektivno i nepredvzyato razobrat'sya v suti etogo istoricheskogo fenomena.'