A feat in life long. Golovkova Lydia, Menkova Inna

The book talks about two outstanding abbesses, the heads of the Grodno Holy Deviation-Monastery, Elena (Convalova) and Maria (Risitsskaya). Igumenia Elena, who achieved the prosperity of the monastery at the beginning of the 20th century, saved him and his inhabitants during the years of evacuation at the beginning of the First World War, and then in the Time of Troubles of the Revolution and the early Bolshevik repressions. Igumenia Gabriel managed to preserve and defend him in the difficult years of persecution of the Church and the Khrushchev "thaw." Two world wars, several stages of Polish and Soviet repressions in Belarus and Ukraine, the death of people close in spirit, suffering and destruction of the Church - a story about the history of the monastery and its great abbess unfolds against a wide background of Russia's presence on the Western borders, starting from the 15th century.