A collection of ascetic writings of the fathers of the 4th–15th centuries, compiled by St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Corinth (1731–1805) and edited by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (1749–1809), was first published in Greek in 1782. The Greek word “Philokalia” (“Philokalia”) means: love of the beautiful, the sublime, the good, love of beauty, love of beauty. This refers to spiritual beauty, which a Christian acquires as a result of following the instructions of the ascetic fathers collected in this collection. The full title of the collection sounded like “The Philokalia of the sacred sober wise men, collected from our holy and God-bearing fathers, in which, through active and contemplative moral philosophy, the mind is purified, enlightened and improved.” The Greek “Philokalia” was translated into Slavic by the Monk Paisius Velichkovsky, and Later, a great deal of work on translating the collection into colloquial Russian was carried out by Saint Theophan the Recluse (in the world Georgy Vasilyevich Govorov, 1815–1894). This publication is based on the 1905 edition “at the expense of the Russian Panteleimon Monastery on Athos.” The fifth volume of “Philokalia” includes translations of the works of the holy fathers: Simeon, the New Theologian, Simeon the Reverent, St. Nikita Stiphatus, Theoliptus, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, Gregory the Sinaite, Nikephoros the Solitary, Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, Callistus the Patriarch and Ignatius Xanthopoula, Simeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica. The appendix contains the Lives of the Saints: Nicodemus the Holy Mountain and Macarius of Corinth. With the blessing of Metropolitan Vladimir of Tashkent and Central Asia