The book contains biographies of the most revered Russian Orthodox saints. Among them are the holy princess Olga, the holy and noble princes Vladimir the Baptist and Alexander Nevsky, the Monks Anthony and Theodosius Pechersky, the "abbot of the Russian land" Sergius, the Radonezh miracle worker, Zosima and Savvaty Solovetsky, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov and many others.