Vladimir Megre Books in Order

Vladimir Megre was born on July 23, 1950, in the village of Kuznichi in the Chernigov region, in what is now Ukraine. He grew up in a rural setting, and in later accounts he often returned to two early influences: the natural world around him and his grandmother, whom he remembered as a village healer.

As a teenager, he also made visits to Father Feodorit at the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in Sergiev Posad. Those meetings stayed with him, and they later became part of the spiritual backstory that readers find throughout his books.

He left home young.

At sixteen, Megre moved to Novosibirsk. Before he was known as a writer, he worked as a photographer, camera operator, and film director, and during the years of perestroika he moved into business. He eventually became president of the Inter-Regional Association of Siberian Entrepreneurs, which gave him a very practical, fast-moving life far removed from the quiet forests that would later define his work.

Then came the Ob River expeditions.

In 1994 and 1995, while organizing trading voyages along the Ob River in Siberia, Megre says he met a woman named Anastasia living deep in the taiga. He presents that encounter as the turning point of his life. Soon after, he stepped away from business and began writing about what he had seen, heard, and believed he had been shown.

The first result was Anastasia, published in 1996. Megre sold early copies himself in the Moscow metro, a small detail that says a lot about how unlikely the whole thing must have seemed at the time. Readers came back for more, and the first book was followed by The Ringing Cedars of Russia, The Space of Love, Co-Creation, Who Are We?, and later volumes that kept widening the same world of ideas.

What many readers respond to is the mix. Megre's books are part travel narrative, part spiritual dialogue, part argument about how people should live. Across the series he returns again and again to family, love, childrearing, education, ancestry, and life on the land. The family homestead idea, which becomes central in the later books, gave the series a practical edge that set it apart from a lot of purely inward spiritual writing.

The books did more than sell.

They spread widely in Russia and beyond, and they also inspired a broader Ringing Cedars movement around land, kinship, and intentional community. Some readers come for the mystery around Anastasia herself. Others stay for the way Megre ties big questions to ordinary things like home, gardens, children, and daily habits.

He has continued to publish, revise editions, and stay in touch with readers through essays, interviews, and conferences. Decades after Anastasia first appeared, Megre is still closely linked with the world that book opened up.