[1] An important objective of the brotherhood was the creation of semi-legal monastic communities outside formal church structures ("v miru", "in the outside world"), as well as the monastic tonsure of young people (including secret ones) in order to preserve the institution of monasticism in the conditions of mass closure of monasteries.
[2] As part of the mass arrests of clergy and, above all, monastics, the JSPD (OGPU) authorities fabricated a massive case against members of the Brotherhood (over one hundred people were persecuted).
All the leaders of the brotherhood, except for the future Metropolitan of Leningrad Gury (Egorov), died in 1936–1938, and the first generation of young monks who took monastic vows before 1932 was almost completely destroyed.
Among them were four future prominent bishops — Metropolitans Ioann (Wendland), Leonid (Polyakov), Archbishops Nikon (Fomichev), Mikhei (Kharkharov).
[2] In 2003, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, three active members of the Brotherhood were glorified as saints: the hieromartyr Archimandrite Lev (Egorov), the martyrs Princess Kira Obolenskaya and Ekaterina Arskaya.