Drop everything and go to a monastery. It seems that this is more difficult to do today than ever before. Why do our contemporaries decide to take this step? What routes do people take to the monastery? How does tonsure change your life - external and internal? The book is based on the series of programs by Yulia Varentsova “How I became a monk” on the Spas TV channel. The following people talk about their new life in a monastic guise:• Head of the Department of the Accounts Chamber, Hegumen Philip (Simonov),• resuscitator Hieromonk Theodorit (Senchukov),• former theater and film actress nun Olga (Gobzeva),• President of the International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival “Meeting” nun Sofia (Ishchenko),• housekeeper of the Moscow St. Daniel Monastery, hegumen Innocent (Olkhovoy),• Head of the Events and Competitions Sector of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church Hieromonk Trifon (Umalatov), • Head of the Parish Education Sector of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church Hieromonk Gennady (Voitishko).