About the book: 2023 / The Diary of a Diocesan Missionary is based on the real diary of the diocesan missionary Nikolai Slednikov, who at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries traveled around the Vologda diocese with the goal of conversion of schismatics to Orthodoxy. The essay contains unique historical material. "Prilutsky century. 1892–1992" - the history of the Vologda Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The essay is based both on archival materials and on eyewitness accounts. “Archival shadows 1929–1937” is a story about the fate of repressed priests based on the originals of the NKVD criminal cases. The book concludes with Orthodox journalism from different years.