Introduction: faith and story in imperial Russia / Heather J. Coleman -- The miraculous healing of the mute Sergei Ivanov, 22 February 1833 / Christine D. Worobec -- The miraculous revival and death of princess Anna Fedorovna Golitsyna, 22 may 1834 / Christine D. Worobec -- Monastic incarceration in imperial Russia / A. J. Demoskoff -- Letters to and from Russian Orthodox spiritual elders (startsy) / Irina Paert -- Sermons of the Crimean War / Mara Kozelsky -- The diary of a priest / Laurie Manchester -- "Another voice from the lord": an Orthodox sermon on Christianity, science, and natural disaster / Nicholas Breyfogle -- A Ukrainian priest's son remembers his father's life and ministry / Heather J. Coleman -- Akathist to the most holy birth-giver of god in honor of her miracle-working icon named "Kazan" / Vera Shevzov -- A nineteenth-century life of St. Stefan of Perm (c. 1340-96) / Robert H. Greene -- Written confessions to father John of Kronstadt, 1898-1908 / Nadieszda Kizenko -- An obituary of priest Ioann Mikhailovich Orlovskii / Laurie Manchester -- Not something ordinary, but a great mystery: Old Believer ritual in the late imperial period / Roy R. Robson -- Orthodox petitions for the transfer of the holy relics of St. Stefan of Perm, 1909 / Robert H. Greene -- Dechristianization in holy Rus?: religious observance in Vladimir diocese, 1900-1913 / Gregory L. Freeze -- Petitions to the Holy Synod regarding miracle-working icons / Vera Shevzov -- Missionary priests' reports from Siberia / Aileen Friesen -- Petitions to "brother Ioann" Churikov, 1914 / Page Herrlinger -- Archimandrite Toviia (Tsymbal), prior of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra: memoirs and diaries (selections) / Scott M. Kenworthy -- "From ignorance to truth": a baptist conversion narrative / Heather J. Coleman.