About the book: 2015 / The author of the book is our contemporary - Pavel Troitsky (Deacon Peter Pakhomov). He visited Mount Athos more than ten times, traveled a lot, visiting monasteries and monasteries, talking with monks. This book with a large number of photographs is a description of his impressions, fascinating stories about the most striking pages of the history of Athos, about the secrets and legends of the Holy Mountain, about the great elders of the past and about meetings with modern ascetics.