"This is the way of the wanderer on the endless roads, the great ones and the villages of the Holy Land .. Russia; one of the representatives of that "in Christ wandering" Russia, which we knew so well then, long, long ago... Russia, which now does not exist and which probably never will be . These are the ones from Prep. Sergius went to Sarov and Balaam, to Optina and to the Kievan saints; they went to Tikhon and Mitrophany, they were in Irkutsk with St. Innocent, they reached both Athos and Sv .. Earth. They, having no remaining city, sought the future. These are the ones who were lured by the distance and the careless ease of the homeless life .. When they left their home, they found it in other homes. They preferred the sweetness of family comfort to the edifying conversation of the elders and the schematics .. They contrasted the rhythm of the monastic liturgical year with its holidays and church memories .. They seem to us now much closer to the Poor One of Assisi, or even closer to those early Christians of whom the ancient author wrote: "Christians inhabit their homelands, but as aliens ; all participate as citizens, but all suffer as foreigners; Every foreign land is their fatherland, and every fatherland is a foreign land... Being in the flesh, they do not live according to the flesh; they wander on the earth, but in the sky they live. " Cyprian (Kern). Preface to the new editionThe notes give the main discrepancies from the first Kazan edition of 1881 and the Athonite Panteleimon manuscript No. 50/4/395. Work on the study of these discrepancies was carried out by Hieromonk Vasily (Grolymund)