All great people were in awe of the wisdom and beauty, the picturesque visual power of proverbs. Parables and proverbs composed by an original mind, decorated with the flowers of folk truth, fanned from heaven with winged wisdom that came down and flew over the earth – they are not a slogan or a poster, but sound like a bell and an alarm bell.

The collection was compiled by the well-known and beloved Lavra priest, Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin), who for this work made extracts from the Holy Scriptures, from the dictionary of V. I. Dahl, used the sayings of the holy fathers, sayings and quotes of the elders.