monastics. Works Filaret was a prominent figure in preparing a Russian translation of the Bible (until his time, only a Church Slavonic version not readily understood by the general populace was available), and wrote many volumes of theological and historical works collectively known as the Filaretica. They include the Colloquy between a Believer and a Skeptic on the True Doctrine of the Greco-Russian Church (St. Petersburg, 1815); Compend of Sacred History (1816); Commentary on Genesis (1816); Attempt to Explain Psalm lxvii. (1818); Sermons delivered at Various Times (1820); Extracts from the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles for Use in Lay Schools (1820); Christian Catechism (1823); Extracts from the Historical Books of the Old Testament (1828–30); Principles of Religious Instruction (1828); and New Collection of Sermons (1830–36). Filaret also wrote spiritual poems from an early age; his poetical correspondence with Pushkin is well known. References Nicholas S. Racheotes. The life and thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782–1867: the thorny path to sainthood. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington, 2019. XXVI, 307 pp. External links Collection of links Metropolitan Filaret and the Russian religious philosophy Biography Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Filaret Filaret Members of the Russian Academy Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Filaret Filaret Russian saints 19th-century Christian saints 19th-century Eastern Orthodox theologians