"Way, Truth and Life." The origins and formation of Igumen ministry

The book of Igumenia Filarets (Kalacheva), the abbess of the Pyukhtitsky Assumption Stavropigial Monastery, in a concise form tells about the origins of monasticism, its development and formation, about the content and meaning of such a form of management of a monastic hostel as surveillance. Analyzing and comparing the extensive research material, based on the authoritative work of Russian and foreign church historians, the author in a form accessible to the wide reader, compressively describes the path traveled by Russian monasticism, stopping at the main, most dramatic and fracture moments of its long history. The unconditional advantage of the book for the reader will be the opportunity to get acquainted with a significant circle of existing studies on the history of Russian monasticism, presented by the best names of Russian church science.
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church