Vpervye v odnoi knige sobrany luchshie proizvedeniia dukhovnogo tvorchestva o russkikh monastyriakh i monashestve: rasskazy E. Markova o Sviatykh Gorakh na Dontce; V. Maevskogo ob Afone; protoiereia V. Sventcitckogo o pustynnikakh gor Kavkaza; A. Muraveva o Rozhdestve v Vifleeme; I. Iuvacheva ob Aleksandrii, Gretcii i Turtcii. Tochnoe, tonkoe opisanie divnykh kraev, litc, oshchushchenii, chuvstv; i vsego togo, chemu net nazvaniia. Na eto sposobno tolko slovo, vdokhnovlennoe veroi.