377. INDEX

  0.  COVER
 11.  INTRODUCTION

 23.  CHRONOLOGY

 25.  FORWARD TO THE 1975 EDITION

 27.  LIFE OF ELDER MACARIUS OF OPTINA

          29. Author's Introduction

          31. Formative Years and Entrance into the Monastery (1788–1810)

          49. Life at Ploschansk Hermitage (1810–1834)

          87. Life at Optina Monastery (1834–1860)

         157. Publication of Patristic Books

         177. Correspondence on Patristic Texts

         187. Last Days of Elder Macarius (Sept 7, 1860)

209. APPENDICES

         211. Life of the Author, Fr. Leonid Kavelin

         225. Disciples of Elder Macarius

         291. Life of Ivan K. Kireyevsky

         309. Letters of Elder Macarius

         335. Reminiscences of a Spiritual Son of Elder Macarius

361. EPILOGUE

365. GLOSSARY

369. BIBLIOGRAPHY

377. INDEX