Yakov Druskin (1902-1980) is one of the most interesting actors on the Soviet cultural arena of the 20th century. Unfortunately, his works and views are still largely unknown. A philosopher, pianist and mathematician by education, a math schoolteacher by occupation, Druskin was a very versatile figure. His main interest was religious philosophy in the tradition of his teacher Nikolay Lossky, and he left a surprising number of theological treatises that were published only after his death. Today Druskin is primarily known as one of the key members of the group of Russian avant-garde poets and philosophers called the 'chinari' ('the titled ones'), along with Vvedensky, Kharms, Lipavsky, Oleynikov, and Zabolotsky, all of whom (except Zabolotsky) perished during Stalin's purges or the second World War.