The following pages contain a translation with some omissions of the Slavonic service book entitled, Trebnik, or, Book of Needs, so called, because it contains the provision for that which is spiritually needed by a Christian from the cradle to the grave.
To this is added, as an appendix, a translation of a portion of the service book entitled Office book of the bishop's holy service, namely, that pertaining to the laying on of hands.
The original used for the translation of the first named work is an edition published in Moscow in the year 1882, and that for the portion of the second, one published in the same city in the year 1890.