Dobrotolubiye (Slavonic Philokalia)

The Slavonic Philokalia, the Love of the Good, translated by St Paisius Velichkovsky and his monks at Neamt in Moldavia from the Greek collection of St Nikodemos and St Makarios, and printed at Moscow in 1793. It carried the tradition of watchfulness and the Jesus Prayer from Athos into the Russian monasteries, and through Paisius’ disciples into Optina, where it gave the elders their teaching. It is the book the pilgrim of The Way of a Pilgrim carries in his knapsack and reads by the roadside. St Theophan the Recluse later made a larger Russian version in five volumes, still called by the same name, which put the texts in the language the whole of Russia could read.