The lives and achievements of the first settlers of the holy Lavra of the Caves of Kiev, who t 'ascetic wrestlers, the fiery prayers, amazing and miraculous holy biotic cemented the gospel message to the Russian land. Compiled in the 13th century., Contains stories of holy Nestor chronograph († 1114), Polycarp, archimandrite of Lavra († 1182) and Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal († 1226). A book that does not offer the reader the wisdom of this world, but reveals the heavenly wisdom, the holy spiritual grace and divine power, enoikousan to simplistic Caves fathers of the early Russian monasticism.