The Aegean Sea laps the shores of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Twenty ruling monasteries co

This is the first detailed history of the Russian presence on the Holy Mountain of Athos that traces it back over one thousand years. It will be invaluable to b

Collection of old dusty photos of Russian monks of the Orthodox Christian religion who abandoned the Church in 1917 to return to Russia to fight against the Bol

This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality. It marks the millennium of the

In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Nam