The joy of a meek loving spirit

The history of the Russian Church is unimaginable in isolation from the history of monasticism. What role was the monasticism in the life of the Russian people at the time of that tragic fracture of its history, the centenary of which we celebrate this year, is a very important and interesting issue. Give the reader the opportunity to independently draw conclusions on the basis of documentary evidence of contemporaries and this book is called up. The life of Russian monasticism at the beginning of the twentieth century and its actually complete defeat during the revolution and after it are represented here in the form of anthology of fragments of memoirs and diaries of immediate eyewitnesses and participants in those events