Maya Kucherskaya’s “Modern Patericon” was burned in one monastery, and in one of the seminaries it is used as a teaching aid.

Such a book has never existed before. Disputes about it divided readers into two irreconcilable camps. To some, this collection of short stories about clergy and their flock seems too ironic and poisonous, others are convinced that the book was written with great warmth and love. How in reality is for the reader to judge, we will only add that in four years the “Modern Patericon” has endured five editions and sold into proverbs.