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Studying material is the literary heritage of the church writer’s community in the Patriarch circle in the second half of the XVII century preserved mainly in manuscript form. The paper analyzes writings by Afanasy Kholmogorsky, Evfimy Chudovsky, and Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov). In these author’ texts (polemical treatises, historical biographies, epistles, etc.) a description of modern realities and facts intertwines with the events of ancient history and later epochs, recorded not only in different time narratives, but in the historical memory of participants and eyewitnesses to events (including the memory of writers themselves). Some past events used by the authors are of oral origin. The specific character of the analyzed writings, that were created applying early texts with stories on historical themes and references to historical events, names of outstanding historical personalities, allows us to consider ways and purposes of their use, as well as to understand the nature of reception and evaluation of events of the past by the authors of the “transitional” era in relation to its current problems. Thus, the article objective is to study the peculiarities of describing the events of the past in the works of the Patriarchal circle’s church writers in the second half of the XVII century. Based on the materials analysis, the author identifies causes and nature of actualizing the events and images of the past, reflected in the texts of previous epochs, as well as captured in historical memory. The paper considers peculiarities of displaying historical subjects in the text structure in the second half of the XVII century; reveals that the creative strategy of authors, who used in their works certain historical events and facts, was based on the desire to extract the necessary information related to a given subject, to increase the emotional impact on the readers, to expand the arguments in the polemics with ideological opponents, to draw attention to current problems of modernity emphasizing the continuity of tradition.