The book about the ascetics of the 20th century appeared thanks to the efforts of hundreds of people: those who left testimonies about their spiritual mothers, who collected testimonies of spiritual children and contemporaries of ascetics, compilers of books and articles about oxbow women, Orthodox prose writers and journalists, as well as people who took part in publishing the material on the Internet, employees of publishing houses and printing houses, and many, many others. Svetlana Devyatova