Leave everything and go to the monastery. It seems that today it is more difficult than ever. Why do our contemporaries decide to take this step? What ways do they come to the monastery? How does tonsure change life - external and internal? The book is based on the series of programs by Yulia Varentsova "How I became a monk" on the Spas TV channel.• Head of the Department of the Accounts Chamber hegumen Philip (Simonov), • resuscitator hieromonk Theodorit (Senchukov), • former theater and film actress nun Olga (Gobzeva), • President of the International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting" nun Sofia (Ishchenko), • Economy of the Moscow St. Danilov Monastery hegumen Innokenty (Olkhovoy), • Head of the events and competitions sector of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church Hieromonk Tryphon (Umalatov), • head of the parish education sector of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromonk Gennady (Voitishko).