Аннотация:The editorial explains the current position of Russian historians in a developing relationship with professional public history. We discuss the aims of historians’ publicity, and how public history meets the public opinion in sometimes fierce public disputes. We point to several important public history books recently published in Russian. Finally, the editorial frames the month’s contributions from “digital turn” to via teaching approaches to public history to public memorial practices, and presenting unprecedented collection of personal diaries digitized by “Prozhito”.