The name of the ancient Chinese thinker Laozi, who lived in China in the 6th–5th centuries BCE, can be translated as “Old Child.” (Although this character can also be translated as “Old Sage.”) Laozi is the founder of an ancient Chinese teaching, the essence of which is set out in the treatise “Dao De Jing.” The book presents the first translation of Laozi’s treatise, made in 1894 by the Japanese scholar, Tolstoyan, and graduate of the seminary at the Russian Spiritual Academy in Tokyo, Konishi Masutaro, baptized as Daniil Petrovich Konisii.