The collection contains stories from the magazine "Russian Pilgrim," which was published in Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries with the blessing of St. right. John of Kronstadt. The magazine was very popular and diverged in thousands of copies. One of the most favorite folk readings was precisely the stories of spiritual and moral content, both about devotees of piety and about the everyday life of the clergy and ordinary people. Instructive stories touched readers with their sincerity and good nature.