The collection is dedicated to the 625th anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo and the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery, founded by the holy noble prince Dmitry Donskoy on the site of the appearance of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to him. The book includes essays by Ugresh local historians E.N. Egorova and I.V. Antonova (1938–2001), dedicated to individual pages of the history of the famous monastery and the people who created this history. The authors focus on the origin of the ancient name Ugresh, repeatedly mentioned in the “History of the Russian State” by N.M. Karamzin and the works of other domestic historians, the legend about the founding of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery, archival documents about the inhabitants of the monastery, the construction of temples and other significant events. Popular in presentation, the essays were prepared using the results of the latest archival research. Readers will learn a lot of interesting things about Archimandrite Pimen (Myasnikov), now canonized as an all-Russian saint, about a whole galaxy of his students and followers who ruled the Nikolo-Ugreshsky and other monasteries near Moscow at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. A special place in the book is occupied by essays about writers, who labored in the monastery in the second half of the 19th century: Konstantin Leontiev, Nikolai Solovyov, Dmitry Blagovo (later Archimandrite Pimen), Alexei Bochkov (later Abbot Anthony). Pictures of monastic life are complemented by documentary stories about Archbishop Leonid (Krasnopevkov), a close friend of Archimandrite Pimen (Myasnikov), about the disgraced Metropolitan of Moscow Macarius (Nevsky), who spent the last years of his life within the walls of the Ugreshskaya monastery. The appendix provides a brief chronicle of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery, covering the events of 1380–2005, and some statistical data about the surrounding villages and the number of the Ugresh brethren. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.