About the book: 2010 / The lives of saints have long been the main content of the Menaion-Chetiy - works of Russian church-historical and spiritual-educational literature. The stories about the lives of the saints of the Orthodox Church are set out in the Menaions of the Fourth in the order of the months and days of each month. Of the four known works of this kind, the Menaion-Chetya of St. Demetrius of Rostov, written in Church Slavonic, from the 18th century. served as the favorite reading of the Russian Orthodox people. This edition is a new set of pre-revolutionary text, printed at the Moscow Synodal Printing House in 1904–1911, in modern spelling with newly selected illustrations. Quotations from the Holy Scriptures are given, with the exception of some, in Russian (Synodal translation). Attached is a list of ancient measures of length and monetary units..