Несвятые святые на английском языке. Everyday Saints and Other Stories. Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book were purchased in less than a year after its release. Everyday Saints is the English translation of the work that has soared at the top bestseller lists in Russia since its publication in late 2011. Winner of several national awards including “Book of the Year,” its readership spans philosophical boundaries. Surpassing all competition many times over, it was voted the most popular book in Russia for 2012.
Open this book and you will discover a wondrous, enigmatic, remarkably beautiful yet absolutely real world. Peer into the mysterious Russian soul, where happiness reigns no matter what life may bring. Page upon page of thanks, praise, and testimonies to the life-changing effect of these bright, good-hearted, and poignant tales have flooded the Russian media. This book has been the cause of many sleepless but happy nights: “I couldn’t put it down—was sorry when it ended” is the common reaction.
The book is being translated into ten different languages. This English translation, Everyday Saints, is every bit as charming as the original.

“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 Tikhons 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 modern 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

CONTENTS
Translator’s Introduction
Preface
In the Beginning
   12 Pechory
   14 Ten Days: My First Tasks
   22 In Moscow
Father John
Archimandrite Seraphim
Difficult Father Nathaniel
Father Melchisedek
Father Antippus
The Caves
Being a Novice
How We Joined the Monastery
A Story about People Like Us—Only 1,500 Years Ago
Father Gabriel
The Great Abbot Archimandrite Alipius
Augustine
What Was Happening in the Spiritual Realm at These Moments?
The Theologians
A Sermon Given on the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, November 19, 1995
The Tale of the Prayer and the Little Fox
Guardian Angels
About One Holy Monastery
The Most Beautiful Service of My Life
Mother Frosya
The True Story of Mother Frosya
While Visiting Mother Frosya
The Candle
On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, All the Water in the World Becomes Holy
Father Awakum and the Religious Affairs Commissioner from Pskov
The Black Poodle
A Christian Death
Marshal Zhukov’s Mother-in-Law
Archimandrite Claudian Death of a “Stool Pigeon”
Stories Like This Happen in Moscow Today
Lyubov Timofeyevna Cheredova
The Metropolitan’s Daughter
How Bulat Became Ivan
Father Nicholas’s Prediction about My Monasticism
A Chapter that May Be Skipped by Readers Who Don’t Know Church History
Exorcism
A Sermon Given During a Service for the Taking of Monastic Vows in the Sretensky Monastery
The Tale of the Prodigal Bishop
The Relics of Patriarch Tikhon
How Prince Zurab Chavchavadze and I Broke the Lenten Fast
You Cannot Serve God and Mammon Both
Yet Another Breaking of the Rules
The Story of the Egyptian Cat
Andrei Bitov
His Eminence the Novice
The Foolish Townsfolk
Liturgy Is Served No More than Once Each Day on Any One Altar Table
How We Bought Our Combines
Vasily and Vasily Vasilyevich
The Life, Amazing Adventures, and Death of Father Raphael, the Shouting Stone
The Parish House in Lositsy and Its Inhabitants
An Incident on the Road
On Humility
How Father Raphael Drank Tea
Everyday Saints