Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus' Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupations of the Orthodox hierarchy and the clergy throughout the Rus' metropolitanate up to the early modern period.

Andrei I. Pliguzov (1956-2011) was a historian of Kyivan Rus' and an expert in church history, with a focus on sources from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. He was the author of numerous publications on a variety of topics, including the Battle of Kulikovo, the Union of Florence, the Time of Troubles, early modern Old Belief, and the place of ethnic minorities in the Russian imperial imagination.