As a result this church code was never accepted by the Russian monks residing on Mount Athos.

Church of Alexander Nevsky was originally built by the Russian monks in 1876.

The book became extremely popular among the Russian monks on Mount Athos in Greece.

There was a Russian monk in the city that day.

A Russian monk named Nestor was in Constantinople the day the city fell.

"These Russian monks kept killing themselves until 1897," he says.

Russian monks numbered 1,000 in 1895, 1,446 in 1903, and more than 2,000 by 1913.

His example was eagerly followed by other Russian monks.

The next rank, Stavrophore, is the grade that most Russian monks remain all their lives.