Monografiya posvyashchena izucheniyu drevnerusskogo apokrifa "Beseda trekh svyatiteley". Pamyatnik postroen v forme voprosov i otvetov, izlozhennykh ot litsa trekh proslavlennykh Vselenskikh svyatiteley-bogoslovov IV veka Vasiliya Velikogo, Grigoriya Bogoslova i Ioanna Zlatousta. Soderzhaniem voprosno-otvetnykh par "Besedy..." sluzhat sobytiya Vetkhogo i Novogo Zavetov, istoriya tserkvi, kosmologiya, demonologiya, eskhatologiya, voprosy khristianskoy nravstvennosti. Issledovanie osushchestvleno na materiale bolee 150 russkikh spiskov XV-XX vekov. Avtor rekonstruiruet literaturnuyu istoriyu pamyatnika v russkoy knizhnosti, ustanavlivaet ego istochniki, proslezhivaet svyaz' apokrifa s fol'klorom i ikonopisnoy traditsiey. Kniga prednaznachena dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley, prezhde vsego dlya tekh, kto interesuetsya istoriey russkoy literatury, pravoslavnoy i staroobryadcheskoy kul'tury.
