The work has a subtitle ‘Reference Book on the Russian Hagiography’. It was the first research on the cults of saints in the eleventh – seventeenth centuries (including local ones and those who did not pass the official canonization) in Russia. ‘Data on All Saints…’ contains four parts organized according the geographic principle: saints of South-Eastern, North-Eastern, Central, and Western Russia.
The work provides data on each saint, including 1) his or her name and rank; 2) the year and the date of death; 3) the memorial date, the date of finding of relics and their translation to a place of veneration, and information on his or her canonization; 4) the place of the grave (if the relics had been translated, the place of their keeping); 5) the life and services to a certain saint (including data on specific copies, the time of their compilation, names of their authors). The main aim of the author was to strengthen the interest to studying local cults of saints in the Russian Empire, searches for historical and archaeological data on them for the sake of creation Patericon. There are articles on 795 ‘saints and righteous people’, and the author found not less than 200 Lives. The book was completed with an alphabetical index.
The source: The Holy Rus’, or Data on All Saints and Righteous People in Rus’ (up to the Eighteenth Century) Generally and Locally Venerated. Performed in tables, with a map of Russia, and a plan of the Kievan Caves. M. Stasiulevich Typography. St. Petersburg, 1891. V, 220 p., 1 p. ill., 1 p. map.