A pilgrim diary on Athos. Arseny (Stadnitsky), Metropolitan

In the early 1880s, these diaries of a pilgrim to Athos, Avksenti Stadnitsky (1862 - 1936), a student of the Kyiv Theological Academy, in the future - Metropolitan Arseny. Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Tashkent and Turkestan, a member of the Holy Synod, a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire from the monks of the clergy. In Soviet times, the closest associate of Patriarch Tikhon, convicted by the Soviets and exiled to exile in Central Asia.

22 - summer lad, who will soon be called the "most stringent archpastor" of Russia, who became an outstanding preacher and speaker. The path of the spiritual leader began with this book, awarded in 1886 the Makarievsky Prize - the academic award of the Russian Orthodox Church. The student book, so separately and not published... The author, which he managed to "rally in one small sensations, scraps of feelings, shreds of thoughts... in a word, everything was tested and completed."