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"There are NO ROYAL REMAINS ... THEY ARE BURNED" - WITNESS OF OLD NICHOLAS (GURYANOV)

"I will not renounce God and the Tsar - at least kill"

(answer of Elder Nicholas during interrogation in 1931)

Throne of Russia - Ipatiev Podval

Almost a hundred years separate us from the terrible day when treason, cowardice and deceit of the aristocratic authorities and the elite, the church hierarchy and the “grand-ducal” betrayal allowed the brutal torn to pieces in the dungeon of the Ipatiev House of the Anointed of God, the humble Russian Tsar Nicholas with all the August Family and Loyal subjects ... The sufferers were tortured and pawned. Their holy bodies were burned to ashes. They deprived us of the Royal Powers. So that the people would not even have the memory of the King, so that they could not weep at his holy tomb. And now, for a century now, my long-suffering Russia has been thrown together with the Tsars into this bloody Cellar, and we are painfully trying to understand and explain to ourselves, why and how we were there...

The last “living” witness of the regicide - the Ipatiev House - was demolished, and we stayed there ... Ipatiev hell ... It has not let us out of the sticky bloody walls for a century. Here the monsters shed the Holy Blood of the Tsar. Reigning Tsar Nicholas and Born into the Russian Kingdom through the prayers of the Monk Seraphim and Blessed Pasha of Sarov, Heir to the Throne Tsarevich Alexy. Every night - from the sixteenth to the seventeenth of July - until the demolition in 1977 - the walls of the Ipatiev were crying with the Royal Blood ... It oozed and expired on this Holy Night, no matter what they covered it with. The walls screamed and moaned for the evil they had done. So the Lord called to realize and obey... All those who are involved and guilty. After all, He - GOD - saw everything. Christ the Savior was with Them in this Ipatiev hell...

But instead of universal repentance and awareness, a lie is still cynically hosting in our Fatherland. And everything that happens around the Royal Name is a shame. The general shame of Russia and our disaster. In the Royal Tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the remains of unknown, unknown to us, the Russian people, people are buried under the guise of "royal" ones. A century of lies... Involuntary and free complicity in regicide. Desecration of the Truth about the suffering of the Tsar. This is what the heirs of the regicides will “celebrate” in July 2018, if all of us, the people of God, are allowed to recognize the “Ekaterinburg remains” as the Royal Powers. As has already been admitted, the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg does not stand on the site of the Royal Torments. The Tsar's Golgotha, the basement where the Tsar's Family was martyred, the Iptiev Cellar, remained outside the Temple. And in April 2000, trees were cut down on Voznesenskaya Gorka, witnesses of the prayers, tears and thoughts of the Tsarevs about Russia and about us. Witnesses to the sufferings of Tsaritsa Alexandra, Tsesarevich and Tsarevnas. These trees heard and saw how Tsarist Russia was being destroyed. From these trees, we clearly knew exactly where this “room” was located. The Altar of the future Temple was supposed to be there, as it was proposed in the rejected project of the architect Konstantin Efremov. So, as a result of unknown reasons, the plan of the Temple was shifted so that the contours of the place of torment did not fall into the contours of the Temple. And the so-called "execution" room, according to Professor V. M. Slukin, its eastern part, remained ... on the sidewalk. There now passes "street-asphalt covering".

Until now, the results of the work of the commission led by Professor Malakhov, a specialist in underground passages, mines and voids in the walls, which studied the entire year (1975-1976) Ipatiev House, its underground structures and cellars on the eve of demolition, are classified.

Everything connected with the Tsar is slandered and distorted. Everything related to the forcible seizure of power in Russia in 1917 and the regicide is hidden. The entire world political system was built on the imaginary "renunciation" of the Sovereign, which seems to be collapsing today. And only because it is collapsing before our eyes, we can talk about this topic. Almost nobody talked about it before. But we knew that after the grand ducal perjury rebellion, in which the close Relatives of the Sovereign, the military, and the clergy were involved, our Blessed Tsar Nicholas, being deprived of the opportunity to politically influence events, did something more important than the struggle for earthly power: He became a Saint. With the entire August Family. Consciously and sacrificially. And those who came to power as a result of the February conspiracy were doomed to inevitable defeat and ignorance. Torment in Eternity. Saint Tsar Nicholas is loved and prayed to Him. For He walked in the Footsteps of Christ and acquired Heavenly Glory. The slander around His Name will sooner or later dissipate, and the Truth has already reached human hearts. Light shines from the darkness of the Ipatiev cellar.

Father Nikolai said that God gave us reason, reasoning. Therefore, we can find out where is the Truth and where is the lie regarding the King. “In fact,” said the Elder, “the authorities have all the original documents. They know exactly what happened, but they hide it. And there are photographs of Tormented There. They even have filming of that terrible evil committed in the Ipatiev basement ... Terrible shots ... Devilish dances.

The Living Word of Father Nicholas about the Tsar-Martyr

Obviously, the word of the unforgettable Father Nicholas about the Great Martyr Tsar is now not just “valuable”, it is “priceless” - spiritual pearls. The elder bequeathed us to be faithful and love for the Suffering Tsar Nicholas. He often lamented that the people did not understand "the most humble, meek and merciful Sovereign."

Father Nikolai predicted that "the Emperor will be kicked out of the Saints!" (He did not pronounce the word “decanonization”, just like “canonization”, he simply said “glorify, glorify”). When in 2000 the Royal Family was canonized as a Saint at the Council of Bishops, I rejoiced, and the Elder said: “Collect everything that has been published and written about the Tsar.” - I was surprised: “Father! But they glorified, now they will print a lot. - The answer of the Elder was stern and unexpected: “Such, dear, they will print about the Tsar that you won’t even take in your hands ... And they will push Him out of the Saints” ...

The words of dear Father are coming true... And, as we see, it's not only about the "Matildas"... As they cheated on the Tsar, they change; how cowardly, cowardly, - so cowardly; just as they deceived, lied, denigrated all the Tsarist and Russian Saints, so they deceive.

Father Nikolai connected the destruction of our country directly with regicide. “We will be able to fix everything in Russia only after we realize the horror of everything that has been done to the Royal Family” ...

For me, as for the majority of the church people, it is obvious that the truth about the Royal Relics is only with God and His Saints, and not in the next decision of the Investigative Committee, which after a while may “reveal” some more “new circumstances” that cancel previous conclusions about the alleged "authenticity" of the remains. And everyone will again be unwitting accomplices in the desecration of the memory of the Most August Sufferers. Therefore, for us, Orthodox, now, when the church hierarchy may reconsider its attitude towards the remains buried in the Imperial Tomb, and there is a danger that we may be forced to consider these bones as “royal relics,” it is the word of the spiritual fathers that determines our attitude to what is happening. .

The famous Elder Archimandrite Kirill (Borodin) once said: “The relics of the Holy Royal Martyrs were destroyed in 1918 at Ganina Yama. There are no “royal remains”, except for what the investigator Sokolov found in 1919. The remains dug up near Yekaterinburg in 1991 are the bones of other people, since mass executions were carried out in those places in the 1920s. Someone, for the sake of a certain policy, made money on the “acquisition of relics”, someone made a name, but the assertion that these bones are the remains of the Royal Family is false.”

Father Nikolai is an ascetic of our pre-judgment time. A righteous man, whose holiness is confirmed by his whole charitable life, veneration of the people and miracles. Both in life and in death. Batiushka's personal appeal to the Royal Family was his descent into the Ipatiev cellar prepared by Him. He revealed to us the Truth about the Torments of the Tsar and about those who betrayed the Tsar to torment... The Elder saw in the Spirit the highest moment of the Tsar's Glory. In the vision of Father Nicholas of the Tsar's Suffering in the Ipatiev Hell, there is such depth that it cannot but be True. Batiushka lived under the guidance of the Most Pure Theotokos the Virgin, under Her holy omophorion. And in Her light he saw what was happening there. Went with the King. On the blades of evil. This is his way. The Royal Way of Father Nicholas. He was lifted up as a youth to the height of Their suffering. I saw everything in eternity. And spoke from it.

Father Nikolai lifted the veil over this terrible secret of the past century - regicide. He recalled: July 17, 1918. I am nine years old ... I run to my mother, crying and shouting: “Mom, mom! The king was killed! All… Oh, and the Lord will punish them, damned ones, for what they have done with Them to everyone!” - It was already revealed to me by the Lord then.". Father later said: "Among the crucified in the Ipatiev cellar, I was the smallest." Even then, the teenage boy Nikola had a special gift of the Spirit. He contemplated the Light, and, being in the Light, he saw the Ways and Destinies of men as clearly as we see the objects around us… He contemplated the Mountain World, where he communicated with the Saints.

Like Blessed Marya Ivanovna Diveevskaya, it was given to him by the Lord to see the Crucifixion of the Royal Family.

Elder Maria Ivanovna (Maria Zakharovna Fedina, (+8.09.1931), heiress of the talents of Pasha Sarovskaya, who was called the “Fourth Seraphim”), - the nuns said, - on the night of the torture of the August Saints, from July 3/16 to July 4/17, 1918 , raged terribly and shouted: “The princess with bayonets! Cursed Jews! She raged terribly, and only later did everyone understand what she was talking about.

Father Nikolai had access to a different reality, where all earthly things and concepts are worthless, and the value lies in something else. That's why he kept reminding me: The sacrifice of Tsar Nicholascomplete co-crucifixion with Christ, Sacrifice for Holy Russia. It is necessary to comprehend the greatness of the Tsar's Sacrifice, it is exceptional for the Russian Church. For this Sacrifice, he wept and prayed for forgiveness, and in 2000 the Lord revealed to Batiushka that He had mercy on Russia, “ already pardoned, and the Russian people are forgiven - for the redemptive Golgotha ​​of the Holy Tsar.

The Blessed Elder spoke of what he saw with the eyes of a soul purified by suffering. The angelic world, the world of dark spirits, was clearly seen by his eye. It was unbearably painful to hear the revelations of the Elder about the bloody torments of the Royal Angels: he said that the Children were tortured in front of the speechless holy Sufferers. The Royal Servant was especially tortured. The queen did not say a word. The sovereign became all white . The father cried: “Lord! What have they done with them all! Worse than any pain! Angels couldn't see! The angels wept what they were doing to Them! The earth sobbed and trembled... There was darkness... They tortured, cut them with terrible axes and burned them, and drank the ashes... With tea... They drank and laughed... And they suffered themselves. After all, they drank Their Holy Blood... They drank and were afraid to be sanctified: after all, the Royal Blood is Holy... The names of those who did this are not open... We do not know them... They did not love and do not love Russia, they have satanic malice... Cursed Jews... We must pray to the Holy Sufferer, cry, beg to forgive everyone… We don’t know their names… But the Lord knows everything!” (25.01.2000)

Elder Nikolai about the Honest Royal Heads: “They were truncated, not only the Tsar, but all the Martyrs, and taken away ... At one time they were in the Kremlin. God knows, maybe even in the mausoleum... They did such things over them that God forbid and speak! Flour! Iniquity! Cursed satanic mockery… It is better to keep silent and cry about it… Devilish dances.”

1. “The Anointed One of God, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, was martyred. Defender and Guardian of the Russian Church. Its Earthly Head… The Sovereign did not renounce. There is no sin on the Emperor for renunciation. He is the greatest of the Russian Tsars, who deeply loved God and His People. He was betrayed. Even the Church. On the clergy - the main sin of treason. They acted terribly. They did not want to stop the conspirators from sinning. They didn’t want to… And they themselves refused the Tsar. And Russia bears the punishment for the Tsar. (How consonant with the bitter words of truth spoken by the late Vladyka Archbishop of Caracas and Venezuela Seraphim(Svezhevsky) (1899 + 1996), who lived out his last days in Novo-Diveevo, near New York: "It's the white hoods that ruined Russia").

2. One day Batyushka said: "The sovereign did not transfer the Throne to Michael." I asked: “But what about the act of transferring the Heritage to “Our Brother”?” - “I don't know anything. It wasn't… The Sovereign handed over the Throne to Alexei, the Heir. Legal. And the Tsar did not trust any provisional government and did not bequeath anything to them.

This is a terrible catastrophe in world history, the consequences of which continue to be felt by all Russian people until today. In the Russian Kingdom, the Tsar's rank is the Church's rank. Order of the Bishop. The anointing to the Kingdom is the Eighth Sacrament. It is Sacred and inviolable, like all Sacraments. Knowing this, the Synod was OBLIGED to immediately convene the Council and judge what happened at the DNO station with the Emperor ... Instead, knowing that the Sovereign was being taken under arrest, the Orthodox clergy throughout the Empire began to endure the Cross and the Gospel and force the people to take the oath to the provisional government, thieves who seized power. “Unprecedented lawlessness! They don't want a king! The thieves! Father Nicholas said. - In this gathering there were Jews, and Masons, and atheists, and the people were forced to take them - thieves - an oath of allegiance! From this hour the Second of March is the Day of our Shame...

3. “The victory of the enemies is imaginary… In fact, the Tsar appeared before God in the Spotless Royal Robe…” - the words of the Elder.

4. “The Sovereign followed the Savior… And His Royal Robe, like the Robe of Christ, was divided and torn… But they were left with nothing… In the Ipatiev basement, the Lord was with Them, but where were the tormentors?! It's scary to think, not just to say.

5. “The Saints loved the King and the Queen. The Monk Father Seraphim sympathized with Them and always accompanied them. And Simeonushka Verkhotursky.

6. "Everything that is terrible in Russia is for the Tsar."

7. "The Holy Queen-Chosen put Her Crosses - [a swastika] - and they saved Russia from Hitler."

8. “Great suffering of Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. She, as the Mother of God, brought Her Son, Alyoshenka, to the suffering ... Is it possible to even think about Them unworthily?!”

9. “Alyoshenka! Priceless, expensive, unprecedented… Brutally tortured before the eyes of the Parents. Chopped with terrible axes, burned in the fire. Holy bones burned. But they sanctified Russia, shone… They shone and keep!”

10. “Tsesarevich Alyosha is our Treasure. God will not give us such a King again. They didn’t save it ... ”Batiushka had a very deep connection with the Tsarevich. He lived by Him. He always asked: “Alyoshenka! Help! Jump to help." Icons of the Royal Family surrounded the father. There are photographs everywhere… But the main thing is that the Tsar's Martyrs were always spiritually near.

11. “The Emperor left the Empire to the Heir - the Son of Tsarevich Alexy. No one else... Nothing. They prepared him for kingship. That would be a strong Emperor."

12. Once said: “ Izmenkovo... General betrayal of the Tsar is Izmenkovo ​​... Whoever betrays the Tsar, he is from Izmenkovo ​​... Tell them so!

13. A piercing thought: “If you love the Royal Family, then you will be saved…»

14. “The Sovereign appeared. This is her lot. Russia. She is Merciful… She does not leave us in Her Dormition. She takes pity on us and forgives us. We must ask Her forgiveness for the Tsar and the Royal Family…”

15. What distinguished the spiritual Path of Father Nikolai? - He did not pin any hopes on the commissions that would investigate something, decide, determine ... Always at the head and in the heart - what will the Royal Martyrs sayAs they decide, they want… When Father was informed with pathos that the Council of Bishops “canonized the Royal Family”, he interrupted the speaker, with vehemence: “So it’s not us! The Lord has glorified!

16. He repeated all the time: “But this should have been asked of the Royal Martyrs.” - As an example ... "I will talk with Elizabeth Feodorovna, how She decides whether it is possible to ask Her relics to Russia for worship." - In the evening: “She doesn’t mind. You can ask for relics from the Church Abroad.”

17. "Royal Relics are protection ... They dissolved in the Russian Zemelka."

18. “The Royal Family… They knew that They were destined by God as a Sacrifice… They learned to relate to this in the highest degree according to Christ. Grigory Efimovich Prepared them for this Sacrifice. He showed them the Way… They meekly and calmly went to the Cross.”

19. “The days when the King was “abdicated” is the real Gethsemane of the King… He had the same strength and calmness as during the torment in the basement… Why is the King so calm? “Because he knows there is no death!”

20. “The Royal Family… The Lord sent her. They know that They are the Victim… We did not understand.”

22. When asked who owns the Scepter, the Crown and the Power of Russia, he answered: “To Tsar Nicholas ... He is now the Master of the Russian Land.”

23. To the argument that the Queen of Heaven took the Scepter and Orb, that the Sovereign mystically handed over the Royal Regalia to Her, she answered: “No! The Empress had and has care for the whole world. She is the Queen of Heaven, not of the earth. But she appeared to, on the contrary, point out that there was no “renunciation”. The king did not renounce. And we have lost the Blessed King, the Anointed One of God… She commanded to pray: “Let them pray,” she said. So they began to ask Her, to lament, to repent… The image was called “Sovereign”… Repentance, repentance… But the Mother of God never left us: “Rejoice, O Joyful One, Who does not leave us in Your Dormition.”

“If the Lord grants a King now,
They will crucify him again, burn him, and drink the ashes with a seagull.

When Father Nicholas was asked about the possible restoration of the Monarchy in Russia, he replied that “Now there is nothing to think about it. If the Lord grants a Tsar now, they will crucify Him again, burn Him, and drink the ashes with tea… They don’t want a Tsar, thieves!” Once he said this: “They can make their Fuhrer “king” ... God save us from this.” Here it is appropriate to recall the prediction of the Monk Lawrence of Chernigov that “under the guise of an Orthodox Tsar” the Antichrist may reign. Father Nicholas warned against being carried away by the idea of ​​“rather than the Tsar!” ... He said: “ The Tsar must be tearfully begged and deserved... And we, you can see for yourself how we live... The Tsar weeps for us, but the people do not even think about Him.”

Quiet words of the humble Talab prayer book Father Nikolai - "The King is Coming"... These are sacred sacred words spoken for the first time under extraordinary circumstances back in 1918, when on a terrible night from July 3/16 to July 4/17, the Royal Sacrifice of the August Sufferers was revealed in the Spirit to the nine-year-old boy Nikolai ... Almost a century ago ... These cherished words of the Tsar himself - Martyr Nicholas, under whose prayer cover only our unforgettable Father remained alive in persecution and prisons, belong to the distant Future ... The time of which is not revealed to us ... For it is impossible for a person to know the Future, said the Elder ... Maybe before the End of Times ... When it should be to come true destined in the Revelation of John the Theologian: “And Heaven was hidden, rolled up like a Scroll; and every mountain and island was moved out of its place...

The way to save Russia is the way out of the Ipatiev Podval. To do this, you need to open the whole Truth about the February betrayal. To be honest about what happened in the Tsar's carriage and the Tsar's Headquarters in the "renounced" cursed days. Declassify all archives and classified documents. Only then will it be possible to realize and understand the True Gethsemane and Golgotha ​​of the Russian Tsar… His Graceful service to Russia so beloved by Him. To us… To the future descendants, who love Him so much and accepted the Royal Sacrifice.

TO GET OUT OF IPATIEVSKOY HELL - IT IS NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE REMAINS OF UNKNOWN PEOPLE BURIED THERE FROM THE ROYAL TOMB OF CATHERINE'S APARTLE OF THE PETER AND PAUL CATHEDRAL IN PETERSBURG. THEN WE WILL BE CLEARED AND HOPE THAT GOD WILL ACCEPT OUR LOVE AND WORK.

from the village of Zakharovo, Belgorod Region , well known for film Galina Tsareva "The King Is Coming".
Through her, like the holy Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich himself conveyed his blessing for the installation of Penitential Crosses and for the taking of the Oath of Allegiance. For many years she has been bearing the heavy cross of confession and prophetic ministry, thanks to which many of our people are beginning to be spiritually reborn. It is for this that a massive flurry of all kinds of slanderous attacks falls upon her.

Our ancestors in 1613 once gave a vow of allegiance to the Romanov family until

Second Glorious Coming of Jesus Christ. Confirming fidelity to this Vow, our people from generation to generation gave the Oath of allegiance to each subsequent tsar from the Romanov family, who ascended the throne. And each subsequent oath did not cancel the previous ones and did not go into conflict with them, because. all of them were given to representatives of the royal family of the Romanovs.

Now, if we want to restore the Russian people in the dignity of a loyal people to the Romanov family, then we must restore the continuity of the chain of oaths of allegiance to the Russian tsars, namely, by returning to the oath to the last lawful Anointed of God -Tsar Nicholas IIand hisThe heir, whom the Lord, in His boundless mercy, bestows on Russia.Taking the Oath of Allegiance to Tsar Nicholas II has a more sacred and mystical meaning for the Russian people than a legal one. This great spiritual action adopts us to Tsarist Russia and the Romanov family, which our people betrayed at the beginning of the 20th century.
At present, there are many discussions about possible options for giving the Tsar-winner by God to Russia: during the Third World War, after the war, before the reign of the Antichrist, after his reign, etc. But more important, no doubt, is that ourthe coming King cannot come to an empty place. The people must be ready, first of all, to spiritually accept it and serve it. Let not all the people, but some “right for the Sovereign” part of it should already be loyal to the Romanov family and ready without any hesitation to take the Oath of allegiance to the last Anointed of God, standing on his side and in his defense. After all, it is quite obvious that the servants of the Antichrist, like himself, will immediately try to kill the New Russian Tsar, just as Herod sought to kill the Christ Child. Therefore, the Lord will reveal the coming Anointed of God, first of all, to the faithful subjects of the Romanov family, i.e. who swore allegiance to the holy Tsar-redeemer Nicholas II and his heir - the future Tsar.

Some of the people, and especially of the priesthood, say that they cannot swear an oath to the unknownto whom, because The king is not open yet. They believe that they will have to first evaluate the candidate, consider his human qualities in order to decide on his worthiness for the throne, and only then swear allegiance to him. They are sure that if this is not done, then the enemies will slip some kind of freemasons Kirillovich, Vladimirovich, etc.
Firstly, about those who swear to “it is not known to whom”, in a sense, we can talk about those who have already sworn and are now swearing the oath immediately to the coming Anointed One “The name of the Lord, You weigh him” (according to Roman Zelensky). We swear allegiance to the holy Tsar Nicholas II and his rightful Heir. And with such an oath, there can be no mistake.
Secondly, just in the event of any "election" of the Tsar, it is most likely that he will be replaced by a candidate needed by the Khazars who occupied Russia.
“Is there a sin in taking the Oath of Allegiance to the holy Tsar Nicholas II and his Heir?”It is unlikely that anyone will answer - "Yes." There are no canonical violations in its adoption. The most fierce opposition to the adoption of the Oath of Allegiance comes from the episcopate and the priesthood of the Church. And this is not surprising.They are often, and often without realizing it, afflicted with the heresy of tsarism, like their predecessors at the beginning of the 20th century, who for the most part approved and rejoiced at the overthrow of the Anointed of God.
Already today in Russia there is a royal people, faithful and ready to serve God, the Tsar and the Fatherland. We, the royal people, are already under the protection and protection of our beloved holy Tsar-father Nicholas II. He, as promised, will not leave his loyal subjects to be torn to pieces by the servants of the Antichrist. And those who have already sworn allegiance to the Tsar and his Heir testify to such help from our Sovereign. And the Lord of Holy Russia will grant the Anointed of God. And he will put things in order in our Mother Church and in the State. And Russia will shine as a saving beacon of Christ's Truth for all the peoples of the world. We must not be discouraged and fall into despair.Yes, we are few. But God is not in power, but in truth! Thank God that we are Russian and Orthodox! Thank God for everything!
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Nun Nikolai (Alla Yuryevna Safronova) - now already a schema nun:

1. Spiritual regicide (repentant for regicide): “Ask the Lord to forgive us the sin of perjury and regicide. Just don’t dig, this is how it happened with us recently: “The Russian people are guilty of the sin of perjury, but regicide is not.” – Don’t dig – we are all to blame. You and I are to blame – for the blood of our ancestors flows in our hands, involved in the sin of regicide" (Safronova's speech in the film by Galina Tsareva "The King is coming" from 2009)

Elder Nikolai (Guryanov) and his Spiritual Daughter Schemonakhin Nikolay (Groyan): "THE RUSSIANS DID NOT KILL THE Tsar!" (Groyan N., schema. Elder Nikolai (Guryanov). The Tsar is coming ... M .: Russian Bulletin, 2011, p. 14–15, 57–58)

In one of the “visions”, Tsar Nikolai appeared to Safronova and said three (!) Times “don’t you dare take a new passport”, “don’t take “demonic” documents.” A year after the release of the blockbuster The Tsar is Coming, Safronova claims that from January 7 to 8, 2010, on the feast of the Cathedral of the Most Pure Mother of God, allegedly the Most Holy Theotokos herself appeared to her in a vision and seven (!) times (like a spell - only a hypnotist-inspirer can say so) said that the repentance of the Russian people in regicide is necessary The nun Nikolai (Safronova) is convinced that she saw the Mother of God Herself in a vision, and she rattled the whole world about it.
And the plagiaristic spiritual and regicide site 3rm.info Dobychinsky immediately published an article with this vision as an additional “argument” in favor of their idea of ​​repentance in regicide. It is necessary to understand that neither the Queen of Heaven, nor Tsar Nicholas, nor any of the Saints will repeat anything in a row at all and twice, not to mention three, seven ... The person to whom the Mother of God, Tsar Nicholas or someone else either of the Saints, by mercy, will reveal His Face, accept everything from them and at once, for that They are Saints. And “three times”, “seven times” is clearly the persistence of demons in an attempt to put the thoughts they need into the human mind and fix them there by means of a spell. You have to be careful about such things. Not all visions are from God. After all, the devil can take the form of the Saints, and even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
The God-wise Holy Fathers of the Church were very careful about visions and dreams. If they had such visions, then they checked whether the Saint or the devil in the image of the Saint or even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was in front of them, as follows: they demanded to overshadow themselves with the Sign of the Cross and glorify the Name of God. The true Saint fulfilled the requirement implicitly. And the devil in the image of the Saint would begin to roam: “Don’t you see that it’s me [the Saint, or the Lord Jesus Christ], as I am depicted on the icons? What more proof do you need? You do not believe me? Why you do not believe me? etc.". And the most reliable way is to make the Sign of the Cross in the direction of the one who appeared. The true Saint will be pleased, but the devil will feel bad, and he may disappear altogether. Nun Nikolai (Safronova) did not apply in her vision any of these recipes of the God-wise Holy Fathers of the Church.

Those who inspire the Russian people with the idea of ​​involvement in regicide by imposing a false veneration of Tsar Nicholas and His Family in the Order of Holiness "Passion-bearer" or by calling to repent of regicide, achieve the following:
1) So that after the Russian people, like the Amalekite youth, testified against themselves with their lips, saying “I killed the Anointed of God”, the Lord would deal with the Russian people in the same way as David with the Amalekite youth who slandered himself;
2) So that after the Russian people agree that the bones of the Holy Royal Great Martyrs were burned by Russian Orthodox people, the Lord would deal with the Russian people in the same way as once with Moab for burning the bones of the pagan King of Edom;
3) So that after the Third God-chosen Russian people, like the First God-chosen people - the Jewish people - as a result of the instigation of instigators, with his own mouth testified against himself, saying "His blood is on us and on our children", the Lord acted with the Russian people in the same way as with the Jewish - scattered around the world.

Krashennikoverka-krasheninnikoslavnaya (professes an anti-Orthodox, complete heresy cult of Glory Krasheninnikov, created by Valentina Afanasyevna Krasheninnikova) Alla Yuryevna Safronova (<схи>nun Nikolai) is a follower of the cult of Slava Krasheninnikov. And not only she, but also Alexei Dobychin, the creator of the spiritual and regicide website 3rm.info, and one of the impostors; “Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia” Kornily (Radchenko) is a former hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, who managed to visit the self-made “Holy Governing Synod” of Bishop Diomede, and since 2012 created his own “Royal Orthodox Church of Holy Russia”. He leads the rite of "repentance for regicide" (in which one cannot repent) in the village. Taininsky at the monument to St. Blagov. Tsar-Redeemer Nicholas II; in the same place he conducts "rites of repentance" in the fact that people have passports, TIN, medical insurance policies, UEK, and other rubbish. He recognized as the Coming Legitimate Tsar-Victor the impostor "George-Mikhail Vladimirovich Romanov" (real name Yuri Vladimirovich Khudyakov), who encroached on the Russian Throne (and not only recognized, but on May 7, 2012 "anointed" the impostor to the Kingdom, "blessed" to take the oath to him).

From the book of the Spiritual daughter of Elder Nicholas (Guryanov) Schimonakhini Nicholas (Groyan):

“Those who repeat after the insane Amalekite act recklessly: “We repent of the murder of the Anointed of God.” [...] repentantly served “Prayer singing for the salvation of our Russian Orthodox Fatherland from the God-fighting yoke of the Jews and seduction near the coming Antichrist” (Izd. RV. M. 2002). It was this rite that the Elder blessed. It is fundamentally different from subsequent, changed ones. Thoughts unusual for repentance were introduced there, but most importantly, words were included about the direct “guilt” of the Russian people in regicide, which is FALSE AND DOES NOT CORRECT SPIRITUAL TRUTH, and what Batyushka Nikolai strongly denied: "THE RUSSIANS DID NOT KILL THE Tsar!" 58.)

Heresies and delusions of Valentina Krasheninnikova and the followers of the cult of Glory Krasheninnikov created by her:
1) Origenism (on the pre-existence of the human soul, condemned ALSO IN THE VI CENTURY BY THE FIFTH Ecumenical Council);
2) Gnosticism (about the predetermination of human existence);
3) ecumenism (glorification of the FALSE Prophet Muhammad by the Prophet. It is appropriate to recall the words of the Holy Apostle Paul “But even if an Angel from Heaven began to preach to you not what we preached to you, let it be anathema” (Galatians 1: 8-9));
4) worship of extrasensory sessions - despite the fact that Krashennikov believers scold psychics and sorcerers in every possible way, they seem not to notice, “forget” that people who were treated by Slava experienced the same thing as at psychic sessions - they imagined people coming out of the sick places bunches of white threads;
5) the heresy of FLAT EARTH (the doctrine of a flat Earth), contrary to the Bible and the teaching of the Holy Fathers;
6) the most terrible heresy in the spirit of Fomenko-Nosovsky's "New Chronology", which consists in the blasphemous identification of Glory with the Archangel Michael or any other Angel. Before his death, Slavik, looking at the icon of Christ, said: “maybe You don’t exist at all?” So that he is not an Angel a priori, and his soul did not preexist, but like any other person it appeared simultaneously with the body in the womb;
7) anti-scientific and simply ridiculous statements about dinosaurs, about “voices from the underworld”, which any educated and sober-minded person will laugh at.

Followers of Valentina Krasheninnikova eat earth from the grave of Glory and say that it is delicious, they put pebbles in their mouths, they put pebbles in water, they drink water, melt the snow from the grave and drink it.
Valentina Afanasyevna Krasheninnikova herself says: “Slavochka said that marble is alive, it has a heart, a pulse; Slavochka said that the TIN is from Satan; we do not sell pebbles and earth from Slavochka’s grave, but distribute it for free, and punish those who sell necessary". Followers of V.A. Krasheninnikova's book about her son is applied to sore spots, they claim that they are cured.
OVER CLOTHING V.A. KRASHENINNIKOVA'S LARGE PRIESTLY CROSS - at the end of the 4th series of the film "Russian Angel" (2010) - this is self-sanctification.
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Anti-passportist-anti-TIN. The idea that the TIN is allegedly a “seal of the Antichrist” and allegedly contains “three sixes” is not Orthodox, and it did not come from the Elders at all (whether Russian or Greek from Athos), as anti-INNs suggest, but from preachers - false prophetesses of the Pentecostal sect. In the mid-1970s, Pentecostal "prophet" Mary Stewart Relfe had a vision in which a spirit revealed to her that barcodes and TINs contained "three sixes" and that whoever purchases goods with a barcode, receives the "seal of the Antichrist" and automatically renounces Christ and is doomed to perdition. She even wrote two books on the subject, When Your Money Fails and New Money System, which became bestsellers. The first book was published in 1981 and the second in 1982. In 1980, Relph taught students a course on "salvation" called "Current Events and Bible Prophecy." What is this spirit that led this exalted "prophetress"? Mary Stuart Relph is convinced that it was the Holy Spirit Himself who appeared to her in this vision. But the Holy Spirit cannot speak heresy and dwell in a heretic (in this case, a heretic). So it was clearly not the Holy Spirit. There is only one option left - an evil spirit, who then threw the sectarian ideas of Mary Stuart Relph into the Orthodox Church in order to cause a schism.

Probably, there is no person in Russia, and indeed in the whole world, who has not heard about the glorious life and wondrous miracles of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. "The Conqueror of Nations" is translated from Greek as His name. How did the marvelous Saint win and still win the hearts of all of us? Fiery faith and love for God, infinite mercy and compassion for others, constant readiness to sacrifice oneself for the fulfillment of Divine commandments.

It can in no way be an accident that in her monastic vows our Mother Abbess received the name of St. Nicholas and that it was she who was chosen by the Hierarch to revive his holy monastery, to become a mother to numerous nuns and children - pupils of the orphanage. For only a big loving heart is able to bear this heavy cross.

To love means to obey. The hegumen's golden cross is very high before God, since the hegumen completely renounces himself for the sake of the brethren, suffers for them. The abbot is a wall between the novice and the devil, all arrows fly into him. If you step outside this wall, you will fall into the clutches of the devil.

In the world, Mother was called Lyudmila. Her parents were not believers, and only her grandmother kept the whole family with her prayer. Matushka's father, Dmitry Ilyin, fought courageously, defending his homeland on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. He was a tanker. Once he returned after a difficult task, just lay down to rest in his dugout, when suddenly the commander’s order was to fight again. Dmitry immediately jumped up and ran to fulfill the order, and at that moment a shell hit his dugout, and if he lingered there even for a minute, he was threatened with imminent death. Obedience saved him. Obedience - ipakoi - the highest virtue of a monk and a Christian, lost, unfortunately, in our troubled times. For the revival of this virtue, then his daughter Igumenia will fight all her life. Monks are the same warriors, only they serve not the earthly king and fatherland, but the Heavenly one. This is the Army of Christ. Matushka's mother, Vera Vasilievna, also has a heroic character, although she was not allowed to go to war, no matter how eager she was. But in the rear, she looked after the wounded in the hospital, and after the war she found a job for herself - she became a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, which required great courage, patience, endurance and love.

Mother Abbess herself never thought about monasticism. She was engaged in science, received two higher educations and led one of the Moscow laboratories dealing with artificial intelligence problems. But the Lord called her. The spark of God's love that fell into her heart flared up with such a flame that nothing could prevent her from completely devoting herself to the service of God. Even in the world, Mother visited churches and monasteries, sincerely and unquestioningly obeyed her spiritual father, who predicted to her that in the future she would have a lot of spiritual children. Not only he, but also other elders prophetically foreshadowed her the Abbot's service. Mother fell in love with Optina Pustyn, which opened in 1988, and her great elders - comforters of all Russia. And the elder Ambrose himself repeatedly appeared to her in a dream, admonishing and instructing her on the path of salvation. In 1990, Mother entered the Shamorda Women's Hermitage, the favorite brainchild of Elder Ambrose, then still ruined and completely destitute. She was immediately placed as a housekeeper. Instead of quiet, solitary prayer, which all newcomers dream of, they had to make countless trips to various authorities with a request to help the new monastery. Few people at that time sympathized with the holy cause, but Mother's faith and selfless obedience won - the monastery was built and flourished. The young nun had to endure many inner sorrows. The Lord allowed Matushka to experience both slander and persecution, clearly preparing her for the new heavy cross of the priesthood.

Once Mother was praying at the Miraculous Icon of the Kaluga Mother of God, and suddenly a lamp was poured on her - the Mother of God herself marked Her chosen one, and after a while Mother was sent for obedience to Kaluga, to the diocese. The wise archpastor immediately discerned outstanding spiritual and organizational abilities in his new novice and invited her to become abbess in the devastated Maloyaroslavets monastery. Of course, Mother was then aware of her weakness and inexperience, but, true to her obedience, she went to the Elder, and the great prayer book told her: “If you will be the Abbess, do not refuse and do not be afraid of anything.” The elder remembered two great victories near Maloyaroslavets: one - in the war with the French, which saved Russia, the other - the victory of our troops in the Great Patriotic War, which raised the fallen spirit and faith of our people. “And there will be a third victory”; - the Elder said firmly. And now, when the monastery is already 25 years old, we can say that this has happened: the victory of light over darkness, truth over lies, humility over demonic pride, the victory of Holy obedience over vile self-will and selfishness.

It is difficult to describe how many sorrows and labors then fell on the shoulders of Mother. Complete poverty and ruin, lack of basic housing, destroyed temples, human malice and misunderstanding - all this brought Matushka to a severe illness, but her spirit was indestructible. Now the monastery is truly a wonderful paradise, where love and obedience reign. Love for God breeds love for neighbor. Mother and sisters took upon themselves the feat - to save many orphan girls, rejected by the world, to keep them alive, healthy and clean, to raise them to be true Christians, educated people, worthy citizens of their Fatherland, and in the future - good wives and mothers. All this is rarely possible for worldly people, but in the monastery Divine Grace helped to do what human forces could not. Come to our shelter, look at the joyful and pure faces of the children, listen to how they sing - and you yourself will understand everything. As for the monastery itself, then the faith and obedience of Mother Abbess worked a miracle.

As our Vladyka said, "... women cannot get to the Holy Mount Athos, therefore the Holy Mountain itself descended into Maloyaroslavets." Matushka searched for a true monastic Rule for the monastery for a long time and turned to ancient Athos, who always spiritually helped our Holy Russia. And so the elders began to come to the monastery - confessors of Athos, sincere spiritual friendship began with many monasteries and cells of the Holy Mountain. A miraculous list of the Icon of the Mother of God “Pantanassa” (All-Tsaritsa) was brought from the Vatopedi monastery as a gift, from which many healings and miracles have already occurred in Russia. Athosites say that Athos is not a place, but a way of life. The main work of a monk is prayer and spiritual obedience, which is the fulfillment of all the commandments of God and the main thing - about love. It would seem that the victory has been won: there are already more than 15 Abbesses from the monastery, reviving the spiritual life not only in Russia, but also abroad. But the war with the devil does not stop.

New young sisters come and again Mother, as the commander-in-chief in the war, teaches them to fight the enemy of salvation, who secretly lives in the heart of a person and is the source of sinful thoughts and deeds. Every day after the Divine Liturgy, Mother conducts spiritual studies with the sisters, revealing to them the experience of the holy fathers, teaching reasoning and knowledge of spiritual laws. If every sister defeats the enemy in her heart, then this small victory will have world significance - there will be less and less evil in this world. As St. Seraphim of Sarov said: "Save yourself, acquire the spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved."

“Who is a great God like our God! You are God, do miracles! And truly, whoever loves God with all his heart and serves him with all his might lives in a world of miracles. And we correlate this world with our Mother Abbess Nicholas - our beloved Spiritual Mother, about whom one great Elder told us: “Listen to Mother - she will pull you all out of hell!” We believe in this and thank God from the bottom of our hearts for this great gift.

On Lazarus Saturday and the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, we decided to break out of Moscow and make a pilgrimage. The question of where exactly to go did not arise: for a long time I wanted to see Optina Hermitage with my own eyes and once again visit the St. Nicholas Chernoostrovsky Monastery located along the road, in the city of Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region.

Almost eight years ago, in July 2009, I was already in this wonderful convent, accompanying Abbess Ines (Aiau). Mother Ines is a native of distant Guatemala, a former Catholic nun who discovered and soon converted to Orthodoxy, the abbess of the only women's Orthodox monastery in Guatemala, and throughout Central America, the Holy Life-Giving Trinity Lavra Mambre. The monastery takes care of the orphanage, which saved lives, allowed hundreds of girls and boys to get an education and go to church. Once in Russia, the Guatemalan mother wanted to get acquainted with a monastery similar to her monastery, and the choice fell on the Chernoostrovsky monastery, whose pride is the girls' shelter "Otrada". Like madre Ines, I was strongly impressed by the tour of the orphanage, the visits to the monastery shrines and the long conversation with the abbess, Abbess Nikolay (Ilyina).

Since then, I have not left the desire to be in this bright and hospitable place again. We got together spontaneously. I warned Matushka Nikolay about our arrival literally an hour before, but she immediately agreed to receive us and offered to organize an excursion.

When we arrived at the monastery, it was drizzling, it was quite cool. But behind the monastery walls, we immediately found ourselves in an atmosphere of warmth and comfort. We were met by nun Varvara, whom the abbess blessed to be our guide.

First of all, we went to the orphanage. While we were walking, sister Varvara told interesting facts from the recent history of the monastery:

– The monastery, founded at the end of the 16th century and experienced desolation in the Soviet years, was revived as a male monastery in the early 1990s. But relations in the community did not work out, and with the blessing of the ruling bishop, the monastery turned into a convent for women ... At first, people were afraid of the monastery, spread various rumors. They said, for example, that the services here are Catholic, because they are long. But gradually everything got better.

I recalled a curious detail that Abbess Nikolai mentioned at a meeting eight years ago: a quarter of a century ago Schema-nun Elisaveta (Vasilchikova) labored and completed her earthly journey in the Chernoostrovsky Monastery, the last guardian of the head of St. Sergius of Radonezh, who was saved after the opening of the relics of the Abbot of All Russia in 1919. In 1946, with the return of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to the Russian Church, the future nun handed over this shrine to Patriarch Alexy I.

Sister Varvara described the educational and educational process, in which nuns and novices are mainly involved, led them through the classrooms, the gym, where floor chess caught my eye - they appeared in Otrada even before the Ministry of Education and Science decided to install them in all Russian schools. Our cicerone showed us a stand with photographs taken during the tour of the orphanage choir, which performed solo concerts and at festivals in many countries - from Israel to Spain. Girls not only sing, but also dance. We also saw a warehouse of things for pupils. Clothes and shoes are purchased or accepted as a gift only new. Girls have a large selection of stage dresses, which is important for a creatively oriented orphanage.

On the second floor, we looked into the living rooms. Now about 60 girls are being brought up in the orphanage: refuseniks, children who have no parents or whose mom and dad are not able to take care of their child. We were told a story about how one girl put a picture of her father in her room ... with a bottle of alcohol in her hand - simply because she did not have another one. The shelter has a room for the reception of relatives, where pupils can talk privately with them, treat them to tea with sweets.

Inhabitants of "Otrada" are generally distinguished by housekeeping, they are taught to cook and run a household. In one of the rooms, two six-year-old girls (I think the youngest in the orphanage) sat us down at the table and began to “treat” us: they arranged plastic cups, a teapot, a coffee pot, a fruit tray, saucers, on which they put toy cakes they made in the shape of an airplane and snowman. It was very touching. Their neighbors and mentors gathered to look at the "tea ceremony" arranged by the younger ones. Among the audience was nine-year-old Nastya, who, as one of the nuns whispered to us, is the star of the orphanage choir. Her mother works at Otrada. Nastya willingly sang the song “Button” to us, the girls sang along with her.

After going to the music class, we were able to see the talents of other girls: under the unobtrusive guidance of the Greek language teacher, novice Alexandra, they sang for us several Greek hymns dedicated to Lazarus Saturday, and then handed us the lazarakia baked by them - cookies made of sweet dough in the form of little men, which, according to a long tradition, are distributed in Greece on the day of the resurrection of the righteous Lazarus by Christ. For the girls, it was a kind of rehearsal, since they had to congratulate the abbess and nuns on the holiday.

St. Nicholas Monastery is firmly connected with the Greek world. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Archimandrite Ephraim (Kutsu), hegumen of the Vatopedi Monastery on Athos, has periodically visited the monastery. Since 2011, the Otrada choir has been taking part in the Light in the Universe conference-concerts organized by Father Ephraim in Greece. The abbess with her sisters and pupils of the orphanage were honored to go around on the ship Athos. The abbot of the monastery of Mahera in Cyprus, Archimandrite Arseniy (Patsalos), also visited Maloyaroslavets.

Three or four people live in rooms, and necessarily of different ages. All girls have an older friend who can lend a shoulder in difficult times and give advice. Not so long ago, one of the pupils' father died. And although she rarely saw him, the sad news came as a shock to her. Then a friend took her to the chapel (she is in the building of the orphanage), began to console and told her that her dad had also died, but when she prayed, she could talk to him and felt that she was being heard. According to the nuns, having a “sister” will help their wards raise their own children in the future.

On the bright faces of the girls there is not a trace of the physical and mental trauma experienced before the shelter, they are well brought up, friendly. "Otrada" can hardly be called an orphanage, rather it is a big family with its joys and sorrows, achievements and problems. The idea of ​​community, family is actively cultivated by Mother Nikolai and the inhabitants of the monastery, they treat their pets like daughters and teach them to perceive each other as close ones.

Girls who have reached the age of 17 have the opportunity to continue their education without leaving the native walls of the monastery. In 2011, the Chernoostrovsky Monastery and the Russian State Social University established the Center for Orthodox Communications: here you can get an education in the areas of "Orthodox Journalism" and "Communication Management" - specialists in this field are called upon to build relationships with the external environment, create a positive image of their organization, attract partners. Today, for our Church, every step of which is viewed by society under a magnifying glass, such service is more important than ever. St. Nicholas Monastery in Maloyaroslavets is a pioneer in the development of communication management in the dioceses. By the way, Sister Varvara is a graduate of the Center for Orthodox Communications, which clearly helps her in her work with guests.

After a detailed examination of the "Otrada", our guide took us to the monastery churches. In the Church of the Korsun Icon of the Mother of God, we prayed at the image of the “All-Tsaritsa” - a list of the icon stored in Vatopedi.

“Many miracles happened to this image,” Sister Varvara told us. – There was also such a story: one of our nun fell ill with cancer, she fervently prayed at the image of the “All-Tsaritsa” - and the disease stopped. For some reason, she left the monastery, and soon the illness reminded itself. This sister repented, returned to the monastery, steadfastly endured the disease, and reposed peacefully in the Lord.

The main temple of the monastery - Nikolsky Cathedral - is almost fifty meters high. We venerated a particle of the relics of the monastery's patron saint, St. Nicholas: it was brought in 2001 from Bari. And at the northern deacon’s gate there is an epitrachelion from Athos, which was used during confession to cover Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, the teacher of Archimandrite Ephraim. Sisters and parishioners kiss the stole, put it on their heads.

My attention was drawn to an unusual icon of the Mother of God with the image of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov and the inscription "1812-2012", made for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Maloyaroslavets. The monastery offers a view of the field where this turning point for the Patriotic War of 1812 18-hour battle unfolded. There were also battles on the monastery territory.

We also visited the lower church of All Saints. With the blessing of the abbess, it is illuminated only by candles and lamps, without the use of electricity.

Then we went to a beautiful spacious refectory, where a table was set for us. There we saw how the girls rehearsed dances. They were directed by an elderly teacher Yuri Nikolayevich, the father of one of the inhabitants of the monastery, who had previously served in the Moscow theater.

After a delicious and hearty dinner, Sister Varvara took us to the rector's building to see Abbess Nicholas. Mother is a charismatic and strong person, at the same time motherly kind and caring. A quarter of a century ago, she took the monastery destroyed and abandoned, restored and improved it, created and raised a shelter for children to a high level. The monastery has sketes and courtyards, 17 abbesses emerged from its walls.

Over tea with Jerusalem delicacies, my mother talked about the current life of the monastery, was interested in our impressions. I asked how the monastery in Maloyaroslavets had such extensive contacts with the Holy Mountain. And the abbess said that in 2000 the confessor of the monastery Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Balaev) blessed her to write a letter to Schemamonk Joseph from Vatopedi.

“Then I was surprised: “Why?”, recalled the abbess. - Father said to this: "Then you will find out everything." And so it happened. I wrote about our monastery, the elder sent a heartfelt reply. We corresponded until his death in 2009. Through the efforts of Elder Joseph, Athos pilgrims began to come to us.

Not without well-deserved pride, the abbess noted the external relations of the monastery. The Chernoostrovskaya monastery is a key attraction of Maloyaroslavets, attracting bishops and clergymen of the Russian and other Local Orthodox Churches, high-ranking federal officials, foreign diplomats, cultural and educational figures to a small city with a population of less than 30,000 people.

- We were very fond of the Austrian Ambassador Margot Klestil-Löffler. She visited us, our choir performed at her residence in Moscow, with the assistance of the ambassador, our girls toured Austria. Twice we had a boys' choir from the Austrian Catholic monastery of St. Florian.

Bruno Weinberg, who came with the choir and came from a well-known family of piano makers, donated an Austrian grand piano to the Otrada shelter.

Mother shared with us the pain of her heart caused by the publication last year of the book "Confessions of a former novice." The author obeyed in the St. Nicholas Chernoostrovsky Monastery and after leaving she wrote a "tale" about her experience. Abbess Nikolai and the sisters are listed in the book under their own names, the monastery is actually equated with a totalitarian sect, the abbess is accused of malnourishment and beatings of the girls in Joy. But even after a superficial acquaintance with the holy monastery and shelter, it becomes clear: the book is written in an extremely biased way, the author pursues goals that are far from the desire to reveal the truth about the Maloyaroslavl monastery.

“The publication of The Confessions of a Former Novice provoked real persecution,” Matushka complained. - There was talk of closing the orphanage and the monastery. Unfortunately, some of our neighbors believed the libel. Someone asked our pupil: “How are you fed?” The girl, who has a dense physique, was not at a loss: “Is it not clear from me?” One priest also participated in the campaign against the monastery, but after visiting us, he completely changed his mind and made a public apology.

Almost at the same time, the Holy Trinity Convent in Guatemala, so close in spirit to the Chernoostrovsky Monastery, received a serious challenge: the country's prosecutor general demanded that Abbess Ines vacate the building of the monastery orphanage by the end of April. The reason was that the 1996 government decree on the transfer of this building to a shelter for 50 years was not made public (which is required by law). But the publication of the decree is the duty of state bodies, but not of the abbess. The case is currently pending before the Supreme Court of Guatemala. God forbid, mother Ines will be able to save the orphanage, where about 400 orphans and children from dysfunctional families are brought up.

Frankly, we planned to spend no more than two hours in Maloyaroslavets, but, captivated by the hospitality of the abbess, sisters and pupils of Otrada, we did not notice how time flew by. The tea drinking ended a few minutes before the all-night vigil on the eve of the feast of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, and matushka invited us to stay for worship and for the night. We gratefully agreed.

In St. Nicholas Cathedral, the abbess gave us a place closer to the salt, at the relics of St. Nicholas. We witnessed the blessing on the cassock: the abbess placed two sets with a cassock, a klobuk and a rosary on the reliquary of the patron saint of the monastery and then handed them over to the novices. The children's choir sang beautifully, in particular, they sang "Kyrie eleison" in Greek. At some point, the girls gave each worshiper a bouquet of willows with a candle.

At the end of the service, Sister Kosma, who is in charge of the monastery hotel, approached us to take us to the rooms provided for us. The guest house has been recently refurbished and is clean and quiet. The rooms have new furniture, everything you need is there. Sister Kosma did her best to make us feel comfortable. After dinner and tea with the abbess, we fell asleep.

In the morning, after praying at the Divine Liturgy and partaking of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, we said goodbye to Mother Nicholas and set off. It was a little sad to leave the Chernoostrovsky monastery on a pleasant sunny day, where we unexpectedly, but happily spent a day. In Optina Hermitage, which, according to the original plan, was the main goal of the trip, it was not possible to stay for the proper period. True, even a short stay with the Optina Elders turned out to be filled with memorable episodes. But that's a completely different story...

In 2004, Father Arseniy (Patzalos) and Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and All Africa died in a plane crash off the Greek coast.