Reverend John Cassian the Roman († 435), the great ascetic of East and West, was born around 360 in the Roman province of Scythia Minor, and became a monk at the Bethlehem Monastery in Palestine around 388. Two years later, he asked for a blessing to travel on a pilgrimage to Egyptian monasteries, seeking “greater grace of perfection,” and spent about 10 years there. The work of St. John Cassian the Roman “On monastic regulations” describes “the organization of the angelic order ", which took place in Palestinian and Egyptian monasteries, and attention is always focused on the internal, spiritual component of monastic work. Such a view of the life of a Christian, we think, was also characteristic of Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov), therefore, from the many holy fathers, he, along with his famous “Fatherland,” chose this work of the Venerable Cassian for translation. The translation was completed in 1842, but was not published. Now the manuscript of this translation is kept in the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library. In this publication, for the first time, a translation based on the manuscript of St. Ignatius is published, and the book “On Monastic Decrees” is for the first time published in Russian as a separate edition and in full. Source: ?tu003d5719655