On February 24, 2014, at the meeting of the Academic Council of the IOM RAS, Dr. A.I. Kolesnikov read a lecture Legends of Late Zoroastrianism: Some Results and Perspectives of Studies [Предания позднего зороастризма: результаты и перспективы исследования].

The study is based on the treatise Šāyast - nā šāyast a manuscript copy of which is kept at the IOM RAS. The manuscript is dated from the16th to 17th century and written in New Persian with some Middle Persian and Avestian quotations. The treatise belongs to the didactic genre of rivayats that contain some legends, descriptions of traditions, religios and ethical regulations that existed in Zoroastrian communities of Iran and India during the Muslim Period, the Period of Late Zoroastrianism.