The critical review is devoted to the memory of the Russian political thinker and philosopher of culture Vadim Tsymbursky (1957-2009). It is the publication of the monographic intellectual inquiry into the prominent researcher’s heritage – inquiry realized by B.V. Mezhuyev (Б. Межуев. Политическая критика Вадима Цымбурского. М.: Европа, 2011. – 200 с. – B. Mezhuyev. Vadim Tsymbursky’s Political Critique), that gave a chance to investigate the genesis of Tsymbursky’s concepts – first of all that of “the Island of Russia”. The author of the book has also analyzed many of the scientist’s ideas, in particular: of Russia’s imperial origins as of the product of Russian Europeanism; of adequate attitude toward the changes of early 1990s; of civilizational geopolitics, etc.