Russian Ascetics of Piety: January

Compiled by New-hieromartyr Nicodemus, Bishop of Belgorod
Paperback: 272 pages

Russian Ascetics of Piety was the most extensive work compiled by St Nicodemus, Bishop of Belgorod. This multi-volume set was originally published by the Athonite Monastery of St. Panteleimon between the years 1906 - 1910. It contains a large collection of the lives of holy ascetics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Since the publication of this work, many of these ascetics have been recognized as saints. The compiler himself died as a martyr at the hands of the Communists in 1919.

Translated from the original Russian. Contains the lives of the following ascetics:

Father Basil, the First Priest of St. Petersburg’s Women’s Monastery of the Resurrection
St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Royal Family
The Czar’s Gift to St. Seraphim: The Shrine for the Relics of the Venerable Seraphim of Sarov
Igumenia Dorothea of Sukhotinsky Monastery
Simeon, Metropolitan of Smolensk
Blessed Thaddeus of Olonets
Schemamonk Nicholas
Bishop Theophan the Recluse
Hieroschemamonk Antipas
Archimandrite Theodosius (Sophroniev Hermitage)
Blessed Hermylus and Eldress Agnia, Igumenia (Kaluga, 18th Century)
Basil Petrovich Braguzin
His Eminence Bishop Meletius, Evangelist to the Pagans of Siberia
Gregory Agafonov the Hermit
Father Irinarchus, Ascetic of Kuryazh Monastery in Kharkov Governorate
Ignatius, Barlaam, and Macarius, Ascetics of Piety of Trinity – St. Sergius Hermitage, Which Is near St. Petersburg
Theodore Kuzmich, the Elder of Tomsk
Igumen Jonathan of Valaam
The Mysterious Nun Arcadia
General Andrew Andreyevich Petrovsky (Monk Andrew of Optina)
Igumen Damascene, Superior of Valaam Monastery
Handmaiden of God Xenia
Hieromonk Gerasimus, Father Confessor of St. Sergius Hermitage
His Eminence Gabriel, Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg
Igumenia Antonia of Kashin
Tatiana Pakhomovna, The Superior of the Women’s Monastery in the City of Kirsanov
His Eminence Philotheus, Metropolitan of Kiev
Father Alexis Kolokolov
Blessed Pelagia Ivanovna, Fool for Christ, the Ascetic of St. Seraphim – Diveyevo Monastery
Theophilus of Svyatogorsk, Fool for Christ
Blessed Theodore Fedorovich Kozhevnikov
A Russian Bishop, a Hermit on Athos
Athonite Schemamonk Joachim, a Former Robber