About the book: year / "The heyday of Russian icon painting begins in the age of the greatest Russian saints - in the very era when Russia gathers around the monastery of St. Sergius and grows from the ruins. And this is no coincidence. All these three great facts of Russian life - the spiritual feat of the great ascetics, the growth of the secular structure of Orthodox Russia and the greatest achievements of religious Russian painting - are interconnected by that close, inextricable connection, which the image of St. Sergius embroidered with silk speaks so eloquently about.…»