V monografii otrazheny nekotorye istoricheskie, religiozno-filosofskie i sotsiokul"turnye aspekty monasheskogo podvizhnichestva v Rossii, regional"nye osobennosti monastyrskoy kul"tury i starchestva mordovskogo kraya v XVII – XX vv. V raskrytii soderzhaniya monasheskogo sluzheniya i znacheniya otdel"nykh monastyrey kak tsentrov dukhovnoy kul"tury i khristianskoy nravstvennosti osoboe mesto zanimaet lichnostnoe vliyanie podvizhnikov svyatosti – glavnykh nositeley i provodnikov khristianskikh tsennostey v individual"noe i obshchestvennoe soznanie naroda. Vozrozhdenie monastyrey i inochestva v respublike Mordoviya v kontse XX – nachale XXI v. ubeditel"no dokazalo zhiznestoykost" i preemstvennost" russkoy pravoslavnoy asketicheskoy traditsii kak neobkhodimogo dukhovno-nravstvennogo komponenta obshchestvennogo i gosudarstvennogo razvitiya Rossii.