About the book: 2023 / In the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky) (1877–1961) stands apart. He combined in himself the seemingly incompatible: he was an outstanding surgeon who saved people in three wars - the Russian-Japanese, Civil and Great Patriotic War, who left a scientific heritage, the value of which is recognized to this day - and was an outstanding church figure who fearlessly defended Russian Orthodoxy and steadfastly endured the hardships of eleven years of wandering in prisons and exiles. And now, six decades after his death, his memory lives on both in the scientific and in the church environment. Museums and permanent exhibitions were opened, monuments and memorial plaques were installed, awards and scholarships were established, films were made and books dedicated to the doctor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky were published. And at the same time, Saint Luke was canonized first as a locally revered saint, and then, in 2000, as a saint for church-wide veneration. Temples are erected in his name, icons and prayers are written, divine services are performed. This book is the work of a secular historian-religious scholar who approaches the description and understanding of the fate of the surgeon-bishop primarily from a scientific point of view, relying on a variety of archival sources and documentary materials, involving newly discovered circumstances of the life of Archbishop Luke, as well as revealing the content and zigzags of the religious policy of the Soviet state in the 1920-1960s.