This volume of the Collected Works of A. M. Remizov includes his books based on folk legends, apocrypha, stories and other works of ancient Russian literature. Since the beginning of the 20th century. The writer set out to reveal to the modern reader the world of folk Christian culture - an inexhaustible treasury of religious and philosophical ideas, moral and aesthetic values. The publication includes well-known collections of Remizov’s adaptations of ancient literary and folklore texts (“Limonar”, “Nikolkny Parables”), and forgotten ones (“Grass-Murava”). For the first time, his latest cycle, “Legends through the Ages” (1947–1957), is being published in its entirety. Also, for the first time in Russia, a book-essay “The Image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker” will be published.