The book B. A. Romanov became the first Russian study of the culture of Old Rus’ made from the point of view of historical anthropology. The author tried to give a general picture of the Old Rus’ common-day life and religiosity as its integral part. Religious issues have been touched to one or another degree in all sections of the monograph, but dominant issues were those of ecclesiastic life and the role of religious rites in private life (the fifth chapter ‘The Spiritual Fathers’; the sixth one ‘The Life of a Man’; and the seventh one ‘On the Crossroads’). The fifth chapter is devoted to monastic life in all its aspects, and the life of the white clergy. This chapter examines such important concepts as ‘sin’ and ‘faith’, and also discusses such an important topic as the penitential discipline. The sixth and seventh chapters are anthropological; the author pays considerable attention to various issues of religious anthropology, and to philosophical and anthropological problems, which makes this monograph equally important for researchers of national religious and philosophical thought.