Prepodobnyi Siluan Afonskii (1866-1938) - skhimonakh, staretc, podvizhnik gigantskoi sily dukha, svidetel Bozhestvennoi liubvi. Krestianin po proiskhozhdeniiu, bez vsiakogo svetskogo obrazovaniia, on stiazhal iskliuchitelnuiu dukhovnuiu mudrost. Ego otlichalo glubokoe smirenie i liubov k liudiam. Kniga soderzhit nastavleniia, sovety, razmyshleniia prepodobnogo Siluana, vospominaniia o nem.