About the book: 1912 / Prologue is an ancient Russian hagiographic collection, originating from Byzantine monthly books, in which the lives of saints are arranged in accordance with the days of their church memory. In addition, the Prologue is replenished with a large number of edifying articles that were never placed in the Greek Synaxarii. While their presentation is brief, they contain the teachings of John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Ephraim the Syrian, and Theodore the Studite. Like a flowering meadow, the Prologue is decorated with understandable and often entertaining passages from the ancient Patericons, parables imbued with thoughts about repentance, mercy, Christian love for one's neighbor, spiritual perfection and the salvation of the soul. All this made the Prologue a kind of Orthodox encyclopedia, an everyday companion for the Russian person. The literary influence of the Patericon is also undeniable: collections of teachings abounded in stories from it, they were quoted in later lives of saints and in Domostroy, and spiritual poems were written on them. In modern times, stories from the Prologue were often used by Russian writers. This collection of teachings was compiled according to the leadership of the Church Slavonic Prologue by Archpriest Viktor Guryev, a famous spiritual writer of the 19th century. For a wide range of Orthodox readers, as well as for specialists engaged in the study of certain aspects of homiletics, moral theology, sectology, liturgical theology, general church history, history of the Russian Church , church art. The publication can be used as educational material for pupils, students and teachers of theological educational institutions, teachers, students and graduate students of theological universities and faculties. Guryev Viktor Petrovich Biographical Dictionary. 2000: Guryev Viktor Petrovich - archpriest-writer (1842 - 1912). He completed a course at the Moscow Theological Seminary. He collaborated in “Soulful Reading” and in “The Helmsman”. Several editions of teachings for the people on the guidance of the Chetiih-Menai, Patericon of Athos, Kyiv and others. — See “Archpriest V.P. Guryev" ("Tserkovnye Vedomosti", 1912, No. 3). Encyclopedic Dictionary by F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron: - Guryev Viktor Petrovich (born in 1842) spiritual writer, archpriest. His works: The Fourth Menaion in teachings for every day of the year (M., 1896; this is not a presentation of the Fourth Menaion, but moral lessons drawn from the lives of saints); Prologue in Teachings (M., 1889; 3rd ed., M., 1901) Dear reader! This book - “Prologue in Teachings” part I and part II was adapted to the modern language from the following source: Edition of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius 1992 (reprint reproduction of the publication of the Athos Russian Panteleimon Monastery. 1912) Adaptation of the text to the modern Russian language Troyanova Alexandra. Internet version © 2002, Pagez.ru