Archbishop Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as a saint, was an extraordinary person. A world-famous surgeon, laureate of the Stalin Prize, whose bronze bust was installed in his lifetime in the gallery of outstanding surgeons at the Institute of Emergency Medicine. N.V. Sklifosovsky in Moscow, spent many years in prison and exile for confession of faith. For many years he managed to combine church service with scientific activity and medical practice. A new book about the holy surgeon Boris Kolymagin is built on unique archival materials that have become available to researchers only in recent years.