In the “Lives of Eminent People” series, for the first time appears a biography of one of the greatest Russian saints—Reverend Sergius of Radonezh, the wonderworker. “Abbot of the Land of Rus” was what they called him even during his life. But Sergius’s life was by no means confined to the walls of the Trinity monastery he founded; he is rightly considered a major political figure of the era of the Battle of Kulikovo. So what kind of man was he? What role did he play in the history of Russia? What were his moral ideals and political views? How did his relationships with the “great people of the world” develop?
The author of the book, the well-known historian Nikolay Borisov, based on many years of meticulous research of all surviving sources, reconstructs the true—not legendary—biography of our great compatriot.