In this book we have the opportunity to touch the living, grace-filled heritage of some Pechersk elders, ascetics who labored in the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery at different times. They left their instructions to future generations on topics important to all Christians, from which everyone can learn a pious and godly life. The holy ascetics, the elders of the holy monastery, whom Tikhon Sekretarev called “the incarnate Gospel of our days,” left us a spiritual heritage, their testaments – evidence of enduring glory and continuous intercession for the human race. The Pskov-Pechersky Monastery is a holy monastery, a place of the ascetic life of monks and an attraction for lovers of God from all over the world, and especially, of course, from Russia.