''Everyday Saints and Other Stories'' () is a book by the Russian author Archimandrite

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(now the Metropolitan), published in 2011. It is a

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, and over 1.1 million copies in Russian have been sold. Its translator

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was baptized into the Orthodox faith that same year, on

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, in Moscow's

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, where Archimandrite Tikhon was hegumen at the time. At the beginning of 2019, more than 3 million copies had already been sold in Russia. The English translation of the book was the subject of an event held in the Diplomatic Receptions Hall at Russia’s Consulate General in Manhattan. A few days earlier there was a presentation of the book in the

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. The book has been translated into more than 17 languages, including French, Chinese, Serbian and others. The book tells us about the life in the

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and about other amazing stories from the lives of ordinary people.

Awards and honors

In Moscow it has been awarded the

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prize for 2012. In 2012 its English translation won a first prize at New York’s Read Russia 2012 Festival.

References

External links

* {{official website, everyday-saints.com Russian books 2011 books