“The book is a portrait of one of the Orthodox Church’s holiest sites, the Pskov Caves Monastery in northwestern Russia. The monastery stayed open during the Soviet era, surviving first within independent Estonia, then by the wiliness and fortitude of the monks after the territory was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Archimandrite Tikhon’s book ... has sold over 1.1 million copies in Russian... the country’s biggest best-seller since the Soviet era. ” —New York Times
“Father Tikhon has successfully fulfilled an extremely important task, combining the ability to formulate the problems of life with true faith using modem language, beginning a dialogue with modern man on his own territory, yet avoiding all banality and primitive cliche..—Antonio Menini, Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain