Righteous Elder Nikolai (Guryanov). Father Nikolai Guryanov: Always be joyful

Guryanov Nikolai Alekseevich was born in the village of Chudskie Zahodtsy, St. Petersburg province, on May 24, 1909. His father, Alexey Ivanovich, served as regent of the church choir. Mother, Ekaterina Stefanovna, a pious woman, performed household duties and helped her husband in raising children. After his death in 1914, the entire burden of responsibility for the family fell on her shoulders.

From childhood, Nikolai was raised within the framework of Christian traditions. He happily served in the church in the village of Kobylye Gorodishche, learned to pray, and loved to listen to church singing. From time to time, when local pilgrims gathered on pilgrimages to holy places, Nicholas was taken with them.

As a youth, he was honored to visit the island of Talabsk (years later this place became a place of asceticism for him). Around 1920, the rector of the church in which Nikolai served took him to the city of Pskov. Their path lay along the surface of the lake. We made a stop on the island of Talabsk and visited the local seer Mikhail. The seer, having met the guests, gave the shepherd a small prosphora and Nicholas a large one.

Upon reaching a more mature age, Nikolai entered the pedagogical college in Gatchina. Upon graduation from technical school, he continued his education at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute.

Nikolai had a strong-willed character. In 1929, driven by zeal for the Lord and spiritual impulse, he publicly and sharply expressed his indignation against the closure of one of the city churches. This courageous performance, contrary to the ideology and policy of the party, which was moving towards communism, caused discontent, and the institute leadership expelled N. Guryanov from among the students.

For some time, Nikolai taught physics, mathematics, and biology at a school in the city of Tosno, and served as a psalm-reader in the church in the village of Remda.

Prisoner of truth and conscience

The persecution of Christians launched by the godless government did not pass him by. In May 1930, he fell under the millstone of the state repressive machine: Nicholas was accused of counter-revolutionary activities and expelled from the territory of the RSFSR for two years. Arriving in the Ukrainian SSR, in the village of Sidorovichi, he again showed his religious activity - he got a job as a psalm-reader.

Soon, “caring” people were found who reported “to the right place” that Nikolai Alekseevich was conducting unhealthy propaganda activities, corrupting people with stories about God, and recruiting young people into the church choir. These signals did not go unnoticed. In March 1931, N. Guryanov was taken into custody in the “case of the kulaks.”

During the trial, it turned out that the accused Guryanov does not have any property, but only has rheumatism. And the accused himself did not admit his guilt. Meanwhile, the property issue was not a priority, because the matter concerned anti-Soviet propaganda.

In August 1931, Nikolai was sentenced to exile for three years in the Northern Territory. This is how he ended up in Syktyvkar, where he participated in the construction of a railway track. Sometimes I had to work in ice water, which is why prisoners died. Working in these inhuman conditions, Nikolai undermined his health. In addition, he suffered leg injuries while working with sleepers.

According to some sources, he was released in 1937, and according to others, in 1942. After his release, Nikolai Alekseevich, as not having the right to live in Leningrad, was expelled outside the city. For some period he worked school teacher in Tosnensky district.

Priestly path

During the Great Patriotic War, N. Guryanov, due to leg illness, was not mobilized into the army. During the period of fascist occupation, he was forcibly sent to the Baltic states.

In February 1942, Metropolitan Sergius of Vilna ordained him to the rank of deacon, and a few days later - to the rank of priest.

In 1942, he attended theological courses in the city of Vilnius. Then he served for some time in the Riga Trinity-Sergius Convent for women, after which he served in the Vilna Holy Spirit Monastery.

Since July 1943, Father Nikolai served as rector of the Church of St. Nicholas, located in the village of Gegobrosty. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, parishioners treated him with great respect; the shepherd himself treated them with great kindness, friendliness and responsiveness. It is noted that despite the poverty of the parish, it was distinguished by its comfortable amenities. No matter how difficult it was to find the funds necessary to repair and maintain the temple, with the help God's temple was magnificent.

In the period from 1949 to 1951, Father Nikolai studied by correspondence at the Leningrad Theological Seminary. After graduating, he continued his education at the Leningrad Theological Academy, but studied only for one year.

In 1956, father. N. Guryanov was awarded the rank of archpriest.

In 1958, by order of the church authorities, he was transferred to serve in the Pskov diocese. For reasons of church economy and taking into account own wish Father Nicholas, he was appointed rector of the Church of St. Nicholas, located on the territory of the fishing island of Talabsk in Lake Pskov, the same one where the seer once handed him a large prosphora. The priest spent several decades of his life on this island.

Father Nikolai settled on the outskirts of the island in a tiny house, along with his mother, Ekaterina Stefanovna. The ascetic’s brothers died at the front and he, as best he could, smoothed out his mother’s grief, and she helped her beloved son as best she could.

At first, Father Nikolai aroused suspicion among the unbelieving part of the islanders, but over time, people saw in him a zealous and humble servant of God. He served alone, baked the prosphora himself, and repaired the church himself. It happened that he officiated in an empty temple. It was difficult, and once, when he was tortured strong feelings, Small child, as if having penetrated into the consciousness of the wise husband, asked him not to leave. Father Nikolai took these words as the voice of God and was encouraged.

Along with fulfilling his pastoral duties, the priest tried to improve the island, planted seedlings, carefully watered them, carrying dozens of buckets of water from the lake.

Often, even without an invitation, he visited the homes of those who needed his pastoral consolation, word and blessing. It happened that Father Nikolai looked after the elderly and babysat the children of parishioners.

All this could not but affect people. When one of the residents wrote a slanderous denunciation against the priest, local fishermen, returning from fishing, contrary to custom, did not give her any fish. This is how they expressed both their attitude towards the shepherd and their attitude towards the informer, dumbfounded by their behavior.

Model of Orthodox eldership

Over time, barely visible on geographical map The island of Talabsk began to be secretly called the island of Orthodoxy. The fame of Father Nikolai and his activities spread far beyond the outskirts of the Pskov land.

In addition to zeal and zeal, God rewarded the priest with the gift of foresight. They say that sometimes the elder even reported on the fate of missing people.

In the seventies, dozens of believers from different parts of the vast country began to flock to the priest. It happened that due to the large influx of visitors, he could not find even a minute to rest. True, he did not accept everyone. Sometimes he could allow himself a stern question: why did you come (came)?

Among the spiritual children of Father Nicholas were laymen, monks, and priests. He is rightfully considered one of the most revered elders of the 20th-21st centuries.

On August 24, 2002, Father Nikolai Guryanov rested in the Lord. Death found him at the place of his exploits, the island of Talabsk.

ELDERS / Father NIKOLAI GURYANOV

Instructions from Elder Nikolai Guryanov. Today the name of Elder Nikolai Guryanov is known to thousands of people in Russia and abroad. He is one of the favorite, most revered spiritual mentors of the Russian Orthodox Church XX century, who supported Her in the difficult time of open persecution of Orthodoxy.

But once upon a time everything was different: the priest belonged to a generation of confessors who endured oppression from the authorities, prison and camp imprisonment and exile for their faith and devotion to God. And after his release, he spent entire years in obscurity, labor and prayer on a remote fishing island. Father Nicholas did not leave an extensive spiritual heritage, works on asceticism or theology, but his short words and simple instructions touch the hearts of the “simple” and the “wise” alike. For many, many, he became the person from whom the path to God begins.

Fragment of the film “Islands of Orthodoxy” by S. Alexandrov. FILM STUDIO RADONEZH.

Elder Nikolai Guryanov

Years will pass, and he will be among the miraculously surviving people in the 20s and 30s. Orthodox priests. Schema-Archimandrite Zacharias from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Schema-Archbishop Anthony (Abashidze) from the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, the Moscow elder - the holy righteous Alexy Mechev and Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin), the Venerable Martyr Amphilochius of Pochaev and the recently deceased Archimandrite John (Krestyankin) - these are just the most famous of them.

All of them shared the lot of confessors and were awarded by God with high spiritual gifts. Their insight is the ability to predict events future life, and sometimes - knowledge about people’s past and the mistakes they made, the gift of healing and expelling unclean spirits - attracted believers from all over Russia to them.

"Between Faith and Prosperity"

There is evidence that in his youth Nikolai Guryanov had a fairly strong character, and he needed effort to learn to control himself. But it was precisely on him that one day the gaze of his father stopped, suddenly turning to his mother with the words: “Ekaterinushka, I don’t know how these (older children) are, but this one will watch you.”. Nikolai Guryanov's father died young, all his brothers died during the Great Patriotic War. He was faced with the path of the priesthood and caring not only for his elderly mother, but also for dozens of spiritual children, and for hundreds of pilgrims who came to him from afar.

Nikolai’s personal choice between faith and the relative peace that the Stalinist state system promised those who were ready to follow established norms took place even before the start of mass repressions - when he was a student at Leningradsky Pedagogical Institute. In 1929, Student Guryanov was expelled from his first year for allowing himself to speak out against the closure of one of the churches.

Way to higher education Thus, it turned out to be closed to him, despite the fact that he successfully graduated from the Gatchina Pedagogical College in 1928. Returning to his homeland, Nikolai served as a psalm-reader in the church and taught mathematics, physics and biology at school. An arrest followed in the 1930s. Imprisonment in "Kresty", exile to a camp near Kiev, and then to a settlement in Syktyvkar - constituted the main milestones of his confessional path. The conditions of detention of prisoners were monstrous.

In the Arctic, Nikolai was among those who laid railway. Years later, the priest recalled that night when he had to stand for long hours in water and crushed ice along with other prisoners. This night of suffering seemed endless. Prayer supported him. And the next morning the guards who arrived discovered that he was the only one alive.

Due to illness in his legs, damaged in prison, Nikolai Alekseevich was not mobilized during the war. After the camp, he taught in schools in the Tosnensky district, and after the occupation of the Gdovsky district, he was moved to the Baltic states. During the war years, an event took place in his life that determined his entire subsequent fate. - Prepared by the trials he experienced for the “tight path” of a minister of the Church, on February 15, 1942 in Riga, on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, he was ordained a priest.

At first he served in churches and monasteries in the Baltic states, and in 1958, following a revelation from one of the elders who showed him the place of his future ministry, he petitioned for a transfer to the secluded fishing island of Talabsk (better known as the fishing collective farm named after Zalit). Here Father Nikolai spent forty years of his life and pastoral ministry.

God and soul

Arriving here as an unknown priest who aroused suspicion among the unbelieving population, a few years later he gained the sincere and deep respect of the fishermen. Having settled with his mother in the tiniest house on the outskirts of the village, he served alone, repaired the church on his own, patched and re-roofed the roof, baked prosphora, and in his free time, without waiting for a request for help, he appeared on the threshold of the houses of those who were most in need in support. Fishermen's families were left without breadwinners for a long time.

Gentle and meek, the priest did housework, stayed with the children, and helped the elderly and infirm. Many later recalled with gratitude his care for families where the owner drank. Father Nikolai could, for example, take out a bottle from a staggering peasant and immediately break it: his quiet word was obediently accepted by people who seemed hopelessly depressed.

In the first years it was difficult. Sometimes despondency set in: for years he served in an empty church. The thought of leaving this difficult land also came to mind. But one day, when his things were already packed, he was stopped by a child's voice - a tiny child, sensing his sadness, suddenly fervently asked him not to leave. The priest accepted the children’s words as an expression of God’s will and a reminder of the instructions to serve here, given to him through the elder. As time passed, Father Nikolai patiently continued to bear his cross.

Several decades later, Talabsk, which was a deserted island at the time of his arrival, was covered with gardens and islands of greenery, which the priest planted and carefully maintained, carrying hundreds of buckets of water from the lake. Greening the island was a special feat of his. From the mainland and from pilgrimage trips, he brought seedlings that made up the famous “garden of memory”, reminding him of the places of his imprisonment. He hardly slept: he served and worked during the day, and prayed at night.

Finally, the “dry soil” sprouted. The attitude of the fishermen towards the priest was revealed by the following episode: when one resident of the village, under pressure from the authorized representatives, wrote a denunciation against Father Nikolai, threatening him with a new imprisonment, the fishermen expressed unanimous reproach to her - none of those who returned from fishing put fish on her plate, according to custom. From that time on, people flocked to the church.

Then, in the 60s, during the intensification of the persecution of churches, representatives of the local authorities came to Father Nikolai, speaking very rudely and promising to return for him the next day. The priest stood praying all night, and the next morning a terrible storm arose on the lake, which did not subside for three days. Talabsk became inaccessible. After the storm subsided, Father Nikolai was somehow forgotten and was never touched again.

Eldership

In the 70s, people from all over the country began to come to Father Nikolai on the island - they began to revere him as an elder. Not only church people were drawn to him, but also fallen souls, feeling the warmth of his heart. Once forgotten by everyone, at times, he did not know a minute of peace from visitors, and alien to worldly glory only quietly complained: “Oh, if only you ran to church the way you run after me!”. His spiritual gifts could not go unnoticed: he called strangers by name, revealed forgotten sins, warned about possible dangers, instructed, helped change life, arrange it on Christian principles, begged the seriously ill.

There is evidence that, through the priest’s prayers, the fate of the missing people was revealed to him. In the 90s The Pechersk elder, famous throughout the country, Archimandrite John (Krestyankin), testified about Father Nikolai that he is “the only truly perspicacious elder in the territory of the former USSR.” He knew God's will for man and directed many along the shortest path leading to salvation.

Father was a stranger to people-pleasing. Didn't accept everyone. He turned some around with the words: “Why did you come here?” Even venerable priests were afraid to visit him. Father Nikolai denounced. There is a known case when two guests came to him in expensive vestments and had a very impressive appearance. Having surrounded them with the words:

“I’m sitting on a barrel (on a barrel),

And under the boot there is a mouse.

My little one is a Komsomol member,

And I'm a communist..."

The elder calmly continued the service. Sometimes he tapped those who came to him quite noticeably on the cheek or forehead: in this way, he drove away the unclean spirits that he was given to see with his own eyes. But when he “beat”, no one was offended by him, because love was felt in everything. Father taught people to watch themselves, their thoughts, checking themselves: are you in the faith? When asked how to live, he answered: "Live as if you were going to die tomorrow".

Instructions of Elder Nikolai Guryanov

How, in what form, what was hidden was revealed to him - the mystery of God, but there were such cases. Mother K., who came to him from afar, from the Urals, went to the elder with trepidation - after the trauma she suffered, she suffered from headaches, so much so that she was afraid of losing her mind. What will the priest say? What are you preparing for? How long do you have to live? - And the elder looked at her carefully, affectionately, took her by the shoulders and said: “You’re still wearing a dress, you’re wearing it...”. Due to their simplicity, I did not immediately understand the meaning of the words, only, like a child, I responded to affection and encouragement. And when Fr. Nikolai anointed his forehead with oil, blessed him for the journey, on the way back I guessed: they say, “It’s too early to say goodbye to the body. You will live longer."

His blessings were also amazing. Either in barely familiar companions, he saw the future husband and wife, then in the “spiritual baby” - a future nun. Once a woman came to the elder, brought by God to the temple through “windfalls” and “potholes” through suffering, raised by a miracle from her sick bed. And everything she knew then about life in Christ was gleaned from several books, among which was a book about the ascetics of the Caucasus. In the soul there is “paradise” from the consciousness of God’s mercy towards it, and the exact knowledge of where, in what direction to go - to the Lord, to the Church - a “lost coin” was found.

And there are tears in my eyes, and I am afraid to utter the word “monasticism” due to my unworthiness. And her father: “Well, go to the Caucasus, live in the mountains, take a look.” She stood as if she had the sun in her hands. The cell attendants followed her: “Kiss the gate. In all these years, Father has not given a single blessing like this!

He doesn’t bless monks there!” And until the last, before her departure from temporary life already in the monastic robe, she remembered how everything turned out - God sent the money, and fellow travelers, and a guide. And there was no such prayer as there in the mountains, as she said. Orthodox “childhood” - the joy when the Lord strengthens and supports at every step, was connected for her with Fr. Nikolai Guryanov and his blessing.

…The elder’s simple instructions to work, to be wary of idleness, to avoid addiction to wine, to love one’s neighbors and according to the commandment, to be a servant to everyone, even reached the hearts of people who were confused and embittered in life’s circumstances. The prayers and akathists that the priest sang in a thin, weak voice, which were distributed in recordings, the memories of spiritual children about him, his photographs still remind us today of this wonderful priest, who carried the cross of his ministry to the very end.

Already seriously ill, he flatly refused to leave his place of ministry and retire to one of the monasteries, for the sake of the thousands of people who came to him. Perhaps one of the most famous was one of the last parting words to Orthodox Christians: “A believer, he must have a loving attitude towards everything that surrounds him. Lovingly!”
TEACHINGS OF ELDER FATHER NIKOLAY (GURYANOV), 1909-2002

1. Our life is blessed... A gift from God... We have a treasure within us - the soul. If we save it in this temporary world, where we came as strangers, we will inherit Eternal Life.

2.Seek cleanliness. Don’t listen to bad and dirty things about anyone... Don’t dwell on an unkind thought... Flee untruths... Never be afraid to speak the truth, only with prayer and, first, ask for blessings from the Lord.

3. You need to live not only for yourself... Try to quietly pray for everyone... Don’t push anyone away or humiliate anyone.

4.Our thoughts and words have great power to the surrounding world. Pray with tears for everyone - the sick, the weak, sinners, for those for whom there is no one to pray.
5.Don't be too strict. Excessive strictness is dangerous. It stops the soul only at external achievement, without giving depth. Be softer, don't chase external rules. Converse mentally with the Lord and the saints. Try not to teach, but to gently suggest and correct each other.
Be simple and sincere. The world is like God’s... Look around - all creation thanks the Lord. And you live like this - in peace with God.

6. Obedience...It begins in early childhood. From obedience to parents. These are our first lessons from the Lord.

7. Remember that all people are weak and sometimes unjust. Learn to forgive and not be offended. It’s better to move away from those who cause you harm - you won’t be loved by force... Don’t look for friends among people. Look for them in Heaven - among the saints. They will never leave or betray.

8. Believe in the Lord without doubt. The Lord Himself lives in our heart and there is no need to look for Him somewhere out there...far away.

Based on the book by Schema nun Nikolai “The Royal Bird Calls to God”, 2009

Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin is considered by many to be a holy elder.
And how can one not consider it as such? The priest helped many during his lifetime, and many miracles were performed after his repose. His relics were found incorruptible.

Father Nikolai was born on December 19, 1898, on Nikolai’s day. He grew up in the same place where he was born - in the pious peasant family of Guryan and Matrona, in the village of Verkhturka, not far from the Belogorsky monastery, which he often visited in his youth. He graduated from three classes of a parochial school, and at the age of 11 began to study shoemaking. In 1917, he got married, and soon, at nineteen years old, he was drafted into the Red Army. When asked why he went to the Reds, the priest answered: “And I knew from Scripture that the Reds would win.” However, Father Nikolai did not shed a drop of human blood, because he spent his entire service in a shoemaker's workshop.
Returning home, he did not join the collective farm and had two daughters.

He looked at the new government as if it had been allowed by God for our sins.
In 1920, he made a vow to serve the Lord, however, he was able to fulfill his vow only after the Great Patriotic War. He was given a reservation from conscription to the front due to severe heart disease. He loved the temple and visited it very often, without fear of persecution.

From 1953 he served as a psalm-reader, and 2 years later, at the age of 57, he was ordained priest by Archbishop John Lavrinenko and sent to Chusovskie Gorodoki to the Church of All Saints, where he served until the end of his life.

Father was a great faster, non-covetous and man of prayer. The priest’s family lived very poorly, because he invested all the money he received in the church. When they asked him how this was possible, he answered: “If I don’t invest, what kind of taxes are there, then the church will be closed. How will people be? After all, then there will be those who are not inveterate and those who are not baptized.” In all the years of service, the priest had never been on vacation, he was afraid that without him someone might die and they would bury the uninveterable, or something else would happen, even he could only come to his daughter for the night, and what if they called someone, what if someone feels bad.

One woman told the priest’s granddaughter, and it seemed like he himself told her: one day he was going with gifts to a sick person, there was snow all around and a narrow path. A huge dog meets him on this path. And don’t miss them. The priest says to the dog: “Dog, let me through, I’m coming with the Holy Gifts.” The dog went down into the snow. And when the priest passed and looked back, the dog bowed to him.
He did not begin the Liturgy until the air and the coverings on the service vessels began to move of their own accord, which was a clear sign of the influx of grace.

One day the priest was seen leaving the church after the service and began to rise into the air. He rose high above the temple, approximately to the height of a five-story building. This was the prayer book.
For more than 20 years after this, Father Nikolai was the rector of the All Saints Church in Chusovskie Gorodoki. A modest rural priest had spiritual children all over Russia.
At one time, Father Nikolai was very famous. The old generation of clergy still remembers him. There are many letters left from him. Corresponded with more than 200 recipients. Among them: Metropolitan Zinovy, Venerable Kuksha, Schema-Abbot Savva, Schema-Archimandrite Andronik Glinsky, Archimandrite John Krestyankin. In these letters, every line is filled with love, humility and faith.

December 16 is the day of remembrance of Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin, whom everyone considers a holy elder. And how can one not consider it as such? The priest helped many during his lifetime, and many miracles were performed after his repose.

In 2003, during reburial, his incorruptible relics were found.

Now the relics of Father Nicholas lie in the crypt under the cover of the altar of the Church of All Saints on Krasnaya Gorka.

The Lord provides for us in a wonderful way. Despite the fact that doctors determined Fr. Nikolai’s life limit was 6 months; Father served for 26 years for the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Mother of God appeared to the priest several times at this bench. The Most Holy Lady promised that this place would not become scarce, and over time there would be a monastic monastery here. Nowadays the Kazan St. Tryphon women's hermitage is set up here.

One of the shrines of the monastery is the grave of the perspicacious elder Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin. He was a wonderful shepherd who acquired the gifts of healing, expelling evil spirits, and clairvoyance. Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin loved the Holy Mountain very much. Now this Mountain is also called Miteinaya Mountain, after the name of blessed Miteika, who prayed here at night.
Father Nikolai served on Miteinaya Gora for almost a quarter of a century - from 1957 to 1981. How much he prayed and cried here! At the end of his life, his hut became leaky, because he cared more about his children, and he himself was an ascetic. When the spiritual children began to invite the priest to start construction, he replied that his life was ending and nothing would be built during his lifetime.
Indeed, only after his death will everything come to life here - a monastery will arise. And Father Nikolai told his children about the future, showing where things would be built. He even described the appearance of his successor, Father Savvaty. Nowadays, Abbot Savvaty is amazed at the foresight of Father Nikolai: “I was still at school, and he already saw me in spirit.”

The prayerful presence of Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin is felt by everyone who comes to the monastery. This prayerful help of Father Nikolai was felt at a difficult moment by the young priest, the future founder of the monastery, Abbot Savvaty, who came to serve here in 1987. He had just turned 21 at the time. After his ordination, the young priest was sent to serve on the Holy Mountain, which is 70 kilometers from his native Perm. And here is the first service. Fear and trembling gripped the inexperienced priest. And then he felt the help of Father Nikolai, who seemed to be present next to him during the service and helped, instructed, and suggested. The feeling of the elder’s presence was so strong that Father Savvaty remembers it even now, many years later. So he talks about the gracious help of Father Nicholas to the sisters of the monastery as if it were yesterday.

Cemetery Church of All Saints on Krasnaya Gorka (Verkhne-Chusovskie Gorodoki,
December 16, 2008).

This is what the sisters of the Kazan Trifonova Women's Hermitage write in the book they published, “Write blessings on copper, and grievances on water...”, which tells about Father Nikolai: “For 15 years, bit by bit, they collected materials about the life of Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin in order to preserve them in people’s memory the image of a modest and loving shepherd. Father Nikolai was a faithful child of the Russian Orthodox Church, possessing high moral purity and deep humility. The book you are holding in your hands includes memories of the spiritual children of the priest, his daughters, relatives and friends. The facts presented in the film by Semenov (Hierodeacon Abel) are superficial rumors aimed at discrediting the Church hierarchy and causing confusion among believers. The work of Hierodeacon Abel is aimed at undermining the foundations of church unity.”

Bath at the spring of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Verkhe-Chusovskie Gorodoki.

Recollection of nun Rafaila (Mashkovtseva) about her spiritual father, Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin.

Father Nikolai Rogozin served in the Chusovskie Gorodki of the Perm diocese, where the Rev. labored for some time. Trifon Vyatsky. Died 30 years ago. He was also buried there. His wife - Mother Anna - last years was blind. She died on the second day of Easter, when the Cherubic Song was sung in the church. They lived very poorly. Both of them had all their personal property in the parcel box. Novice Fr. Nikolai Zoya Mashkovtseva - future monk. Rafaila - Mother Anna said: “I, Zoya, don’t need anything earthly here, I only need heavenly things.” Father Nikolai acted like a fool, walked around in a torn, holey straw hat, and scolded the possessed and the sick, of whom many were brought to him, about twenty people every day. When I scolded people, I ate nothing at all, only prosphora and holy water.
One day all the priests were gathered in the diocese. It was winter, it was a long way to go, and Fr. Nikolai did not have warm winter clothes. They found a hat with earflaps, covered with tarpaulin, with long shoe laces, which he sewed on himself, and an old, torn and dirty coat, left behind by some drunkard, was picked up on the fence. They washed the coat, put it on the priest, gave him old mittens, also covered with tarpaulin, and held a self-made kerze briefcase in his hands - and off we went. He looked like a beggar. We've arrived. When he entered the temple, a crowd of people immediately surrounded him: “Oh! Father Nikolai has arrived!” The people did not approach other priests. Mother Raphael said that you would come to his grave, and it would seem as if earth had been poured on top of it. They were surprised at this and compared the ground, but after a while the ground rose again. This continued until the coffin came to the surface of the earth. The miracle that happened with the discovery of the relics of St. righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye! When the coffin of the deceased priest was opened, everyone gasped - his body was incorruptible and... warm, he was as if alive. The head, hands, vestments, yellow sand sprinkled on top - everything looked as if he had been buried yesterday. The incorrupt relics of the priest were placed temporarily under the Holy Altar in the altar of the Assumption Church in Chusovskie Gorodoki. The icon of Fr. Nicholas and are collecting materials on his biography to submit for canonization.
Mother recalls how her late spiritual father once appeared to her in a dream and scolded her for failure to obey:
“He told me that it was not I who gave you monasticism, but the Lord brought me so that you could become a monk.” From the Lord, and not from me, because I didn’t bless you with anything, I left you. You lived with me for a long time (12 years).
So, I didn’t want to accept it, I just sent the first clothes to the monastery in Pechory, and he told me a second time (he appeared for the second time):
- Why don’t you fulfill the blessing, because this is the Lord’s blessing? The Lord blesses me, not me.
And he wrapped a rosary around my hand and said that your name is Mother Raphaila. And go to Spiridon, he will cut your hair.

For his simplicity, humility, hard work, non-covetousness, zeal for prayer and church, and for his love for man, the Lord rewarded him with extraordinary gifts. He read thoughts clearly, always gave blessings with tears in his eyes, knew about the posthumous fate of souls, and communicated with saints. The Queen of Heaven appeared to him repeatedly. He did not begin the Liturgy until the air and the coverings on the liturgical vessels began to move of their own accord. In prayer, he was not only admired for air, but he was seen praying above the bell tower of his temple. He chastised those possessed by demons, and such severe ones that they were rejected in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Pechory. But the old generation of clergy and laity knows him not only as a faster and a man of prayer. Father Nikolai was a prophet, he said that the Apocalypse was coming, that the next generation after him would be issued documents with the seal of the Antichrist, and how he would seduce humanity. He warned about the collapse of the Union, that after Misha the Labeled came to power, only Masons would rule, who would destroy the country and lead the world to the Antichrist. All this was allowed to the Russian people for their sins and, above all, for the sin of regicide, because of which the Russian people are now blind and deaf. He said that the Russian people can only be saved by repentance and prayer, that without repentance the Lord will not give us a king, that the lawlessness of the Antichrist government can only be stopped by the legitimate royal government.

Prophecies of Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin: myth or reality.
[article from a series on the history of prophecies].

The “true zealots” of Orthodoxy again delighted the Russian public, who are interested in Patriotic history prophecies, with their next “revelation”, which in turn has a “bearded” history:
“Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin is now a little-known ascetic, although in Soviet times many knew about him.
Born in 1898 in Perm region in a poor peasant family.
He was ordained to the rank of priest only at the age of 57 and sent to the Church of All Saints in Chusovskie Gorodoki, where he served for 26 years.
He reposed in the Lord in 1981.
For his simplicity, humility, hard work, non-covetousness, zeal for prayer and church, and for his love for man, the Lord rewarded him with extraordinary gifts. He read thoughts clearly, always gave blessings with tears in his eyes, knew about the posthumous fate of souls, and communicated with saints. The Queen of Heaven appeared to him repeatedly. He did not begin the Liturgy until the air and the coverings on the liturgical vessels began to move of their own accord. In prayer, he was not only admired for air, but he was seen praying above the bell tower of his temple.
He chastised those possessed by demons, and such severe ones that they were rejected in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Pechory. But the old generation of clergy and laity knows him not only as a faster and a man of prayer. Father Nicholas was a prophet, he said that the Apocalypse was coming, that the next generation after him would be issued documents with the seal of the Antichrist, and how he would seduce humanity.
He warned about the collapse of the Union, that after Misha the Labeled came to power, only Masons would rule, who would destroy the country and lead the world to the Antichrist. All this was allowed to the Russian people for their sins and, above all, for the sin of regicide, because of which the Russian people are now blind and deaf. He said that the Russian people can only be saved by repentance and prayer, that without repentance the Lord will not give us a king, that the lawlessness of the Antichrist government can only be stopped by the legitimate royal power […].”

This text was first published on Orthodox forums on the Internet on September 14, 2009, with a link to the film “The Salt of the Earth” (Part One) by Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) and Sergei Bogdanov (Moscow, 2007, duration - 131 minutes), although The film itself was again posted on the Internet for the first time only on 09/09/2009. Until this day, none of the serious researchers of prophecies knew about Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin as a prophet who “read thoughts at a glance, always blessed with tears in his eyes, knew about the posthumous fate of souls, and communicated with the saints...”.
True, the excitement around the film did not last long. After two to three weeks, everyone forgot about the film, since Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) enjoyed a “bad” reputation among Orthodox participants in the 2009 forums, after a number of his statements against the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and personally the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, related to “ The appeal of Bishop Diomede (Dzyuban) to the Russian people,” and the time of “true” Orthodox and “true Orthodox” prophecies had not yet come, while the foundation was only being laid and the soil was being fertilized.

[Historical reference.
Diomede (in the world Sergei Ivanovich Dzyuban, born 1961, Lugansk region, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian religious figure, founder and leader of the non-canonical religious group “The Most Holy Governing Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.” Former bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), from August 10, 2000 to June 27, 2008 - ruling bishop of the Anadyr-Chukchi diocese. According to the official definition adopted by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, he has had the status of a monk since October 6, 2008. However, Diomede himself broke off communication with the Russian Orthodox Church, calling it “the handmaiden of the Antichrist.”
He gained wide popularity in 2007-2008 thanks to his speeches against the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate and Patriarch Alexy II personally, as a result of which in June 2008 he was condemned by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church and removed from the administration of the diocese with a ban on priestly service; On October 6, 2008, by decision Holy Synod ejected from holy orders(deprived of the priesthood).

Text of the “Address”:
“We, clergy, monastics, laity of the Anadyr-Chukchi diocese, led by our archpastor and father, His Eminence Bishop Diomede, appeal to all the faithful children of the Orthodox Church in Christ.
Our appeal is caused by the pain and sorrow that now fills the souls of all Orthodox Christians who sincerely strive for salvation. This appeal was compiled in fulfillment of the words of Christ the Savior: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone; If he listens to you, then you have gained your brother; But if he does not listen, take with you one or two more, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established; if he does not listen to them, tell the church; and if he does not listen to the church, then let him be to you as a pagan and a publican” (Matthew 18:15-17).
Currently, in the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, of which we are members, there are a number of deviations from the purity of Orthodox doctrine.
First, the heretical teaching of ecumenism is constantly gaining strength, striving contrary to words Holy Scripture, church canons and rules, patristic teachings to unite all faiths into one religion, or at least “spiritually” reconcile them.
As part of this movement, joint prayers are performed with heretics, heretics are present at Orthodox worship, in this case, 45, 46 and 65 of the Apostolic Rules and 32, 33 and 37 rules of the Council of Laodicea are violated. Greeting “brotherly” messages from the Orthodox to the non-Orthodox are becoming more frequent, contradicting the words of the Apostle John the Theologian: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home and do not greet him. For he who welcomes him shares in his evil deeds” (2 John 1:10,11). Joint meetings and sessions are held, contrary to the words of Divine Scripture: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked” (Psalm 1:1). “The heretic, after the first and second admonition, turn away” (Titus 3:10).
Second, the development of spiritual conciliation (neo-Sergianism), subordinating church power to worldly, often God-fighting power, to the detriment of God-given freedom. This contradicts the teaching of the Apostle Paul: “Stand fast therefore in the freedom which Christ has given us, and do not be subjected again to a yoke of slavery” (Gal. 5:1). “If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ” (Gal. 1:10). This is exactly what it is main reason participation church leaders in ecumenism, their approval of globalization, and subsequently to the subordination church organization a single world leader.
Third, Tacit consent instead of denouncing the anti-people policies of the existing government, leading to the collapse of the state, demographic crisis, and other negative consequences.
Fourth, Justification and blessing of the personal identification of citizens with the erroneous assertion that the acceptance of external signs and symbols imposed by new times cannot harm the soul without its conscious renunciation of God. There is a clear tendency to discriminate against believers on the basis of disagreement with the processes of globalization (having an old passport, refusing the Taxpayer Identification Number for churches and monasteries). The practice of non-canonical measures of church punishment for priests and monastics: prohibition from clergy, removal from the place of service, etc.
Fifth, Approval of Democracy. Call for voting for certain political leaders, contrary to church canons and in violation of the cathedral oath of 1613.
Sixth, Holding an interreligious summit, with an appeal to the leaders of the G8, which is a recognition of their power. The “Big Eight” is a body of the world Masonic government, preparing the arrival of a single world leader, i.e. Antichrist. Therefore, any cooperation with them is spiritually dangerous.
According to Archbishop Averky (Taushev):
“It is necessary to remember and know: the true Church of Christ cannot proclaim and affirm any lie and enter into commonwealth or cooperation with the enemies of Christ! Therefore, all those bishops, clergy and laity who participate in this lie and are in one way or another friends and cooperation with the enemies of our Lord and Savior are “Orthodox” only in name.”
Seventh, at the last summit of religious leaders, in the final document signed by all the gathered representatives of religious faiths, faith in one “Almighty” was attested: “We will preserve the peace commanded by the Almighty!” We do not believe that we have one “Almighty” with Jews, Muslims, and other religions and teachings. The Lord said about the Jews that “Your father is the devil; and you want to do the lusts of your father” (John 8:44). Muslims consider Allah to be “highest” and the Son of God to be a simple prophet, but the Lord says: “I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). The Apostles also taught this: “Who is a liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, rejecting the Father and the Son. Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; but he who confesses the Son also has the Father” (1 John 2:22-23). “And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God, but is the spirit of Antichrist” (1 John 4:3). “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph. 4:5).
The call of religious leaders, including representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, who signed this document reads: “Respect and accept each other, regardless of religious, national and other differences.” In this we see a contradiction to the Gospel teaching: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or welcome him” (2 John 1:10).
Eighth. We express our disagreement with the official statement on central television about the unity of moral values ​​among Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam and Catholicism. This is a false opinion. We can't have united moral values with modern Judaism and its moral code of the Talmud according to which all people except Jews are “goyim”. We also cannot have common moral values ​​with Islam, which allows, for example, polygamy. We cannot have the same moral values ​​with Catholicism and its morality of the Jesuit order.
Ninth. We are concerned and do not agree with the violation of the principle of conciliarity in connection with the long absence of convening the Local Council and transferring its most important functions to the bishops' council. Thus, according to the 1988 charter: “In the Russian Orthodox Church, the highest authority in the field of doctrine, church administration and church court - legislative, executive and judicial - belongs to the Local Council.” And according to the charter of 2000: “The Council of Bishops is the highest body of hierarchical governance of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
In conclusion of our message, we ask and implore, in the face of the entire Church of Christ, the archpastors, pastors, monastics and laity who are involved in one way or another in the above-mentioned deviations from the purity of the Gospel, dogmatic, canonical teaching, to turn from the path of apostasy and bear fruits worthy of repentance. May we all remain united in the purity of the Orthodox faith. We also appeal to all children of the Russian Orthodox Church with an appeal to support our appeal.
Epiphany of the Lord, 2007.
His Eminence Diomede, Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka].
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The second birth of Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin - as a prophet - occurred on 08/07/2014 (readers, please note this date), when the article “Elder Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin” was published on the Ukrainian forum “I AM NEAR THE DOORS,” which said:
“Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin is considered by many to be a holy elder.
And how can one not consider it as such? The priest helped many during his lifetime, and many miracles were performed after his repose. His relics were found incorruptible.
Father Nikolai was born on December 19, 1898, on Nikolai’s day. He grew up in the same place where he was born - in the pious peasant family of Guryan and Matrona, in the village of Verkhturka, not far from the Belogorsky Monastery, which he often visited in his youth. He graduated from three classes of a parochial school, and at the age of 11 began to study shoemaking. In 1917, he got married, and soon, at nineteen years old, he was drafted into the Red Army.
When asked why he went to the Reds, the priest answered: “And I knew from Scripture that the Reds would win.”
However, Father Nikolai did not shed a drop of human blood, because he spent his entire service in a shoemaker's workshop.
Returning home, he did not join the collective farm and had two daughters.
He looked at the new government as if it had been allowed by God for our sins. In 1920, he made a vow to serve the Lord, however, he was able to fulfill his vow only after the Great Patriotic War. He was given a reservation from conscription to the front due to severe heart disease. He loved the temple and visited it very often, without fear of persecution.
From 1953 he served as a psalm-reader, and 2 years later, at the age of 57, he was ordained priest by Archbishop John Lavrinenko and sent to Chusovskie Gorodoki to the Church of All Saints, where he served until the end of his life.
Father was a great faster, non-covetous and man of prayer. The priest's family lived very poorly, because... He invested all the money he received in the Church.
When they asked him how this was possible, he answered: “If I don’t invest, what kind of taxes are there, then the church will be closed. How will people be? After all, then there will be those who are not inveterate and those who are not baptized.”
In all the years of service, the priest had never been on vacation, he was afraid that without him someone might die and they would bury the uninveterable, or something else would happen, even he could only come to his daughter for the night, and what if they called someone, what if someone feels bad.
One woman told the priest’s granddaughter, and it seemed like he himself told her: one day he was going with gifts to a sick person, there was snow all around and a narrow path. A huge dog meets him on this path. And don’t miss them.
The priest says to the dog: “Dog, let me through, I’m coming with the Holy Gifts.”
The dog went down into the snow. And when the priest passed and looked back, the dog bowed to him.
He did not begin the Liturgy until the air and the coverings on the service vessels began to move of their own accord, which was a clear sign of the influx of grace.
One day the priest was seen leaving the church after the service and began to rise into the air. He rose high above the temple, approximately to the height of a five-story building. This was the prayer book.
For more than 20 years after this, Father Nikolai was the rector of the All Saints Church in Chusovskie Gorodoki. A modest rural priest had spiritual children all over Russia.
At one time, Father Nikolai was very famous. The old generation of clergy still remembers him. There are many letters left from him. Corresponded with more than 200 recipients. Among them: Metropolitan Zinovy, Venerable Kuksha, Schema-Abbot Savva, Schema-Archimandrite Andronik Glinsky, Archimandrite John Krestyankin. In these letters, every line is filled with love, humility and faith.
Father Nikolai reposed in the Lord on December 16, 1981.
Father Nikolai served on Miteinaya Gora for almost a quarter of a century - from 1957 to 1981. How much he prayed and cried here! At the end of his life, his hut became leaky, because he cared more about his children, and he himself was an ascetic. When the spiritual children began to invite the priest to start construction, he replied that his life was ending and nothing would be built during his lifetime.
Indeed, only after his death will everything come to life here - a monastery will arise. And Father Nikolai told his children about the future, showing where things would be built. He even described the appearance of his successor, Father Savvaty. Nowadays, Abbot Savvaty is amazed at the foresight of Father Nikolai: “I was still at school, and he already saw me in spirit.”
The prayerful presence of Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin is felt by everyone who comes to the monastery. This prayerful help of Father Nikolai was felt at a difficult moment by the young priest, the future founder of the monastery, Abbot Savvaty, who came to serve here in 1987. He had just turned 21 at the time. After his ordination, the young priest was sent to serve on the Holy Mountain, which is 70 kilometers from his native Perm. And here is the first service. Fear and trembling gripped the inexperienced priest. And then he felt the help of Father Nikolai, who seemed to be present next to him during the service and helped, instructed, and suggested. The feeling of the elder’s presence was so strong that Father Savvaty remembers it even now, many years later. So he talks about the gracious help of Father Nicholas to the sisters of the monastery as if it were yesterday.”
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Since then, posts about Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin and his “prophecies” first appear on Ukrainian websites, and only then are reprinted on Russian ones.
Earlier in the article “Schemonun of the Nile (1902-1999): myth and reality” for 2010, the author wrote:
“It’s all true!!!
However, let us remember what the ancient Romans said in such cases: “Qui prodest”, that is: “Who needs (or benefits) this?”
After all, this is a fact, the book is a fake “Spiritual Conversations and Instructions of Elder Anthony” touched upon certain fundamental aspects of Russian reality and even partially began to form “social, spiritual consciousness”
Both in it and in the book “Schemonun of the Nile. Biography. Memories of mother. Prophecies, instructions, prayers,” the main thesis is the opposition of modern “eldership” to the Moscow episcopate.
In this perspective, the book about schema-nun Nile cannot be described other than as a very successful special project on the schism of the Orthodox Church. The recipe is simple: construct a story about a certain gracious old man(to the old lady). Miracles and feats are added to required quantity. To these are added the normal patristic spiritual advice. When the reader feels the familiar, the patristic in this book and begins to trust it, then from the second half of the text he will be offered “new items”...
A poorly educated reader can only believe in the existence of a spirit-bearing and educated elder (elder), who teaches and prophesies that...???
And this is where it begins real life!!!
This cheerful phenomenon in the life of modern Russian society is beautifully called Decadence, and the question arises:
"What's happening to us?"
Something happens to us that corresponds to us, our historical make-up and character, our disorganization, our distrust of ourselves, our society, our state system or is this the Providence of God?
If some aesthetic intellectual in his works co-authors prophecies that prove the imminent greatness of Russia and the coming of the Orthodox Tsar, that is, adds “a couple of words from himself” to the well-known prophecies of seers, then do the above prophecies remain prophecies of these seers or should they be considered : prophecies from this aesthetic intellectual?
Why, instead of demanding repentance from yet another aesthetic intellectual for the lies he is spreading, do the “true Orthodox” begin to defend him, what happens to their moral and moral principles?
What happens to the moral principles of modern educated people in Russia when they are faced with “false” prophecies?
Why has the entire Russian-language Internet been filled with articles lately? various kinds political “impatients” and obscurantist “firms” cheerfully and aggressively commenting on pseudo-prophecies “about the coming Russian Orthodox Tsar” and “about the dazzlingly mind-blowing geopolitical triumph” of Russia in the very near Future?
“Qui prodest”?...”
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What is Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin “prophesying” about for Russian society, with the “light writing hand” of Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) and Sergei Bogdanov, starting from 2007 from the date of the film’s creation, or from 2009 from the moment the film was posted on the Internet (having died in 1981):
“I warned about the collapse of the USSR long before this and that after Misha Labeled came to power, only Freemasons would be in charge, who would destroy the country and lead the world to the Antichrist.
Misha the marked will turn all of Russia upside down. He will carry out perestroika and there will be no boss in Russia [...]
Anarchy, whoever wants to do what they want, everything will be stolen. Only Masons will lead. There will be no Russian leaders […]
To Soviet passports about. Nikolai was extremely negative. He said that there were three sixes secretly there. After passports of the 1975 model, they will give Jewish passports with sixes.
It is better to die of hunger than to take them. The next passport cannot be taken under any circumstances, because... in this case, the person already has “one foot in hell.”
Thus, by taking Antichrist documents and cards, a person cleaves to the Antichrist. Therefore, any new documents plastic cards cannot be taken [...]
The time will come when it will no longer be possible to go to churches, as there will be a change of faith [...]
Then they will change the Creed, stop singing the “Our Father”, change the seal on the prosphora and remove the tabernacle (Ark) from the throne […]
The Eighth Council will be wicked. It is on it that the Antichrist will appear. Then on his plane he will travel around the whole earth and everywhere he will introduce himself as a king, so that everyone will bow to him. God forbid we see the Antichrist. It will be shown on TV. He will seem very handsome. So beautiful that even a believer will think, “How handsome he is,” and thereby become attached to the Antichrist and accept him in his heart […]
Under the Antichrist, the Lord will work miracles and powerful coverings. If a person prays, “Lord, I don’t want a seal,” the Lord will hide it. They will install a computer that will be called “The Beast”, and it will know all the data about a person, all his secrets, he will answer any request (during the life of Archpriest Nikolai Ragozin soviet people they didn’t know the word “computer” yet, there was the word “ Calculating machine", the word "computer" came into use only after the collapse of the USSR) […]
This computer will enter data about people all over the world [...]
When they change their faith and there are icons of the Antichrist in the temple, the churches will be packed, but there will not be a single believer. And whoever is a believer does not go, they will be driven there with sticks. But you still don’t need to go under any circumstances. True shepherds will remain, but very few [...]
The last patriarch will not be saved. Pimen is the last Orthodox patriarch; in the future, our patriarchs and clergy will bless us to accept the marks of the Antichrist, and the priest saw the reason for such a grave retreat in worldliness and seduction.
There will be a schism in the priesthood, and just as the kingdom, divided against itself, will not stand, neither will Orthodoxy, and the faith will change. Most priests will accept the seal of the Antichrist and will serve in a new way for the sake of their wives and for the sake of their children. And their flock will follow the priests... Now the efforts of the devil are directed mainly against the priests. The time will come when all the clergy will depart from the Lord [...]
Man is not satisfied with bread alone, but by God's word, which means we need to pray more. You don't need to stock up a lot. Supplies will not save [...]
In the north, grapes will grow in the snow to strengthen the believers […]
Life will be very hard and difficult. There will be a lot of murders, people will kill for a glass of soup […]
Famine has come, which means war and the Antichrist are near […]
There will be a war with China. China will attack first. China will begin to occupy Siberia and go to the Urals. Other countries will see that China is taking a lot and will also come to fight. The West and China will fight on our land for territory. At first there will be just bloodshed, then they will turn on the atom. After the war, 7% of humanity will remain [...]
Tsar Nicholas II could have gone abroad when he renounced the throne, but he did not […]
Father said that the people had the sin of regicide. Sin fell on a generation, on all of Russia. All this was allowed to the Russian people for their sins and, above all, for the sin of regicide, because of which the Russian people are now blind and deaf [...]
He said that the Russian people can only be saved by repentance and prayer, that without repentance the Lord will not give us a king, that the lawlessness of the Antichrist government can only be stopped by the legitimate royal government. There must be a Tsar in Rus'. But it depends largely on how people will pray and ask the Lord […]
Moscow will burn in a few hours. Apparently the fire will come from underground. Before this, the Lord will bring out the righteous. You just need to listen to the voice. If there is an order that the believers are being rounded up and taken somewhere, we must go […]
Perm will fall underground
Seraphim of Sarov must get up for several hours and give a sermon. He will stand before the very Antichrist to strengthen people. Enoch and Elijah are also to come […]
For a short time, two women will stand at the throne in the Orthodox Church […]”, etc.
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Lepota!!!
As we see in the film about Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin there is everything, from appetizers to dessert: autobiography, memories, prophecies, instructions, and the main thesis is the opposition of modern “eldership” to the Moscow episcopate.
In this perspective, the film, again, cannot be described other than as a special project on the schism of the Orthodox Church. The recipe is simple: a plot is constructed about “a gracious elder, a little-known ascetic today, although in Soviet times many knew about him...”. Miracles and feats are added in the required quantity, as a spicy seasoning for hot dishes, normal patristic spiritual advice is added as dessert wines, and when the viewer feels the native, patristic saturation and begins to spiritually relax (trust), then from the second half of the film he is offered, as already strong drinks, “new”:
“When they change their faith and there are icons of the Antichrist in the temple, the churches will be packed, but there will not be a single believer. And whoever is a believer does not go, they will be driven there with sticks. But you still don’t need to go under any circumstances. True shepherds will remain, but very few [...]
The last patriarch will not be saved. Pimen is the last Orthodox patriarch, in the future our patriarchs and clergy will bless us to accept the marks of the Antichrist, and the priest saw the reason for such a grave retreat in worldliness and seduction […]”, etc.
The question arises: Who are the authors of the film, Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) and Sergei Bogdanov, what religious views do they adhere to?

[Historical reference.
In 2000, in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR), a division of the clergy and flock into “apostasic” and weakly “resisting” occurred.
In 2001, the schism intensified, mutual accusations became harsher, and the most “conservative” priests left the ROCOR and formed the jurisdiction of the ROCOR[V] (Master Vitaly).
In 2005, at the IV All-Diaspora Council of the ROCOR, even after the departure of the most persistent “apostasic” priests, the majority of delegates considered the unification with the ROC MP “untimely.”
However, the chosen Synod of the ROCOR[L] (Master Leo), violating the will of the IV All-Diaspora Council, joined the ROC of the Moscow Patriarchate in May 2007 with the signing of the “Act of renunciation of all previous documents of the ROCOR” that contradict this union.
In July 2007, Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) published an “Open Letter” on the Internet, in which he expressed the opinion that the Synod of the ROCOR[L] with this Act, in violation of the “Conciliar Will”, refused to be the former Russian Church Abroad, therefore he is leaving it . Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) had supporters who refused to join the ROC MP, declaring that they were going to continue the “Canonical historical succession of the ROCOR on the basis of all its previous Charter provisions.”
Among the supporters of the position of Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) was the journalist Sergei Bogdanov (to substantiate their position not to recognize the Russian Orthodox Church MP, they “concocted” a series of films “The Salt of the Earth”, including about the late Archpriest Nikolai Rogozin (1898-1981 ), the main thesis of the television series is the opposition of modern “elderhood” to the Moscow episcopate).
At that time, the “resistance” of our heroes to unite the ROCOR with the ROC MP was led by Bishop Agafangel (Pashkovsky) of Tauride and Odessa, who also promised to “keep the canonical and historical fidelity to the tradition of the ROCOR.”
Subsequently, many participants in this “resistance”, wiser in hindsight, began to declare that Bishop of Tauride and Odessa Agafangel (Pashkovsky):
“He was the only bishop who did not sign the capitulation of our then Synod of the ROCOR, so we had no choice. But, unfortunately, he turned out to be a self-interested liar and traitor. His reasons were at first local, for the sake of preserving his Odessa diocese under the patronage of the independent Ukrainian authorities, then for the sake of serving the American “roof” common with them - he became an active conductor of American anti-Russian geopolitics (justifying this by the “freedom” allowed in the Church political views"), and even pointedly moved its Synod of ROCOR[A] from Odessa to New York.
During the Ukrainian-American revolution of 2014, all this resulted in the national and doctrinal betrayal of Bishop Agafangel (Pashkovsky) with persecution of defenders of the ROCOR tradition […].”
To justify his position on criticism, Bishop Agafangel (Pashkovsky) of Tauride and Odessa declared in 2014: “the Russian people are irrevocably fallen and “non-existent”, and even initiating the coming of the Antichrist […].”
(Agafangel (in the world Mikhail Ivanovich Pashkovsky, born 1956, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) - bishop and first hierarch of the non-canonical ROCOR(A) with the title "Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Tauride and Odessa."
In 2007, he opposed the Act on Canonical Communion between the ROCOR and the ROC MP and ceased to submit to the Synod of the ROCOR; together with a number of clergy who supported him, he formed the “Temporary Higher church administration ROCOR" and was elected its chairman. For schismatic activities he was deprived of the priesthood by the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR in 2009. He did not recognize the ban. He considers his jurisdiction to be the real ROCOR, and the bishops, clergy and laity who recognized the “Act of Canonical Communion” have gone into schism).
This Orthodox First Hierarch of Ukraine is currently rebuilding his jurisdiction according to material and political criteria, accepting under his “spiritual communication and nourishment” even non-canonical Orthodox clergy(starting with Ukrainian self-saints - Russophobes and ending with Russian false catacombs - Sekachevites), patronizing all heretical Orthodox sects (starting from supporters of the “Great Deveyevsky Mystery” in the Russian Federation and ending with Lviv chiliasts - Hitlerists). The main thing today for the Bishop of Tauride and Odessa Agafangel (Pashkovsky), who by the way “nurses” the Ukrainian forum “I AM NEAR THE DOORS,” is that all “true” Orthodox Christians pay him a “monthly tribute” or “yasak” for “spiritual nourishment.” And all this, to cover up his betrayal against Orthodoxy, is accompanied by the most destructive thing for the ROCOR - the constant lies of the First Hierarch in big and small things against the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and personally against the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill].
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And what are our heroes, Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) and Sergei Bogdanov, doing during this period, especially after the “ridity” revolution in Ukraine since 2014?
There is little information about them on the Internet. Either they speak at seminars of staunch “apostasic” foreigners who formed the jurisdiction of ROCOR[V] (Vladika Vitaly), or they are participants in the Council in New York of the Synod of ROCOR[A] (Vladika Agafangel).
True, wherever they appear, they convincingly call on those gathered to disobey the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church MP (unfoundedly claiming that many priests, having received spiritual education in Russian theological academies and seminaries, become heretics and ecumenists), and continue to publish “false apocryphal prophecies” about The end of the world (calling for repentance for the murder of the “Tsar-Redeemer” Nicholas II (tsar-gods); for the renunciation of passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, Taxpayer Identification Number, plastic and discount cards, products with a barcode, etc.).
In general, they lead an “active” lifestyle as fighters “for a brighter Future”!!!
One of the readers who watched all five episodes of the film “Salt of the Earth” will now ask:
“Isn’t Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) telling the truth about current situation affairs in the Russian Federation?
Yes, 90 percent of the information that Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) provides in his films is true, but the trouble is that the remaining 10 percent is a lie!!!
Making statements on behalf of the recently deceased “elders of grace, today little-known ascetics,” for some reason he himself does not live by the principles that he proclaims.
He demands that his supporters refuse passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, tax identification numbers, plastic and discount cards, products with a bar code, although he himself, traveling around the world, has these same passports of citizens of the Russian Federation and plastic cards (unless secretly in rainy weather does not cross the borders of other states dark night during the dark phase of the moon!!! Okay, this is happening in European countries ( land border), and how did he get to the Council in New York of the Synod of the ROCOR [A] (Vladika Agathangel) in the USA?).
He demands that his supporters refuse the Internet and viewing a number of media, because “they are the embodiment of a false prophet,” while he himself publishes his films and sermons on the Internet, and is actively recruiting new supporters (if the Internet is the embodiment of a false prophet). prophet, then you guys are “true” Orthodox, what are you doing in it, or is it possible for you personally, because you are not of this world, and will wash away any dirt from yourself with prayer?).
Finally, these constant attacks from Hierodeacon Abel (Semyonov) on the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, but what are you guys doing better?
You say correctly: today the Kremlin is leading the Russian Federation to destruction, to the third partition of the country!!!
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“And the Angel said to me:
Why were you surprised? I will tell you the secret of the woman and the Scarlet Beast who carries her, having seven heads and ten horns.
The Beast that you saw was, and is not, and he must rise from the Abyss and go to destruction” (“Revelation” John the Theologian 17, 7-8).
"The Secret of the Scarlet Beast with Ten Horns":
1. Ulyanov (Lenin) V.I. - 1918 – 1923
2. Stalin I.V. - 1924 – 1953
3. Khrushchev N.S. - 1953 – 1964
4. Brezhnev L.I. - 1964 – 1983
5. Andropov Yu.V. - 1983 – 1984
6. Chernenko K.U. - 1984 – 1985
7. Gorbachev M.S. - 1985 – 1991
8. Yeltsin B.N. - 1991 – 1999
9. Putin V.V. - 2000 – 2007 and 2012 – 2019
10. Medvedev. YES. - 2008 – 2011
Seven Russian First Hierarchs of the “Crimson Beast” period (1918-2025):
Tikhon (V.I. Bellavin) - 1918 – 1925
Peter (P.F. Polyansky) - 1925 – 1937
Sergius (I.N. Stragorodsky) - 1937 – 1944
Alexy I (S.V. Simanovsky) - 1944 – 1970
Pimen (S.M. Izvekov) - 1970 – 1989
Alexy II (A.M. Ridiger) - 1989 – 2008
Kirill (V.M. Gundyaev) - 2009 –...”
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Yes, today the “tops” in the Kremlin are stealing, in a “black” way - they are stealing, and betraying the interests of Russia and the Russian people, wherever you can earn at least one dollar, and what do you do when you stand next to the Bishop of Tauride and Odessa Agafangel (Pashkovsky ) after he declared “the Russian people are irretrievably fallen and “non-existent”, and even initiating the coming of the Antichrist...”?
You stand up for “Great Orthodox Russia”, but at the same time you are ready to come to this “greatness” through the defeat of your Fatherland, but Russian society this already took place in 1917 in initial period“The Crimson Beast” (1918-2025), have you forgotten how it ended for the Russian people?
Some are cutting down the trunk Russian statehood- on the right, others - on the left, accusing each other that the opposite side is cutting “wrongly”, and as a result:
“For the mystery of iniquity is already at work, but it will not be completed until He who now restrains is taken out of the way” (2nd Epistle to Thessalonians, 2.7).

"L"an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
Du ciel viendra un grand Roy d"effrueur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois
Avant après, Mars regner par bon heur.”
“In 1999, in the seventh month,
The great King of Intimidation (Terror) will appear in the sky.
Will resurrect the great King Angolmois.
Mars rules happily according to the horoscope before and after” quatrain 10 (72).

“... I personally held in my hands Abel’s letter to Paraskeva Andreevna Potemkina, in which Abel informed her that he had composed several books for her, which he promised to send soon.
“These books,” writes Abel, “are not with me. They are kept in a secret place. These books of mine are amazing and amazing, and those books of mine are worthy of surprise and horror. And they should be read only by those who trust in the Lord God, for in them there is His Name, which is destined to thunder three times over in Russian history. But his paths will lead again to Russian Mountain. She will be filled with the smoke of incense and prayers, and that is why she will suffer. Poor Rus'..." (S.A. Nilus (1862-1929) to the writer E.N. Trubetskov (1863-1920) for 1914.
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Video film about the Gracious, Spirit-bearing, visionary elder of our times, about his life, miracles, blessings, spiritual children and prophecies for our times.
Look, learn the providence of God and God's people - such luminaries of the Orthodox faith as Elder Nikolai Guryanov. A very beneficial video, I am sure it will touch your heart and reveal to you the answers to many questions of our time. The film is from a series of five videos “Salt of the Earth”, each of them is about the Gracious and Perspicacious Elders of the last times, and each of them is definitely worthy of attention.
Spirit-bearing elder Nikolai Guryanov (“Salt of the Earth” Film 3)

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Elder Nikolai Guryanov had from the Lord the grace of an experienced confessor and preached the path of salvation, leading without wandering to the Kingdom of God. He said: “The Church of Christ is the Kingdom of God, and it, according to the word of the Savior, is within us, therefore a person needs to acquire Christ in the heart, and not engage in external piety.”
Father accepted and consoled everyone who came to him for help: Orthodox, Catholics, Lutherans, unbaptized... And through his loving and humble heart, God worked miracles - people accepted Christ, our saving Orthodoxy. He was an amazing shepherd who had enormous respect for human freedom. Anyone, even the most fallen. He did not force anyone to do anything, did not read moral teachings, did not surround himself with admirers. He did not separate himself from people and never behaved with arrogance. You could express everything to Father, some even argued with him - and he was not offended and did not stop, giving him the opportunity to ease his soul, and tried to help in a friendly way. In this simplicity of his there was a dazzling greatness of heart! Everything was permeated by it - his smile, his words, his gaze, all his movements. Father repeated to people: “Be always with Christ... Believe in Him undoubtedly! Hold on to the Robes of the Savior and do not be slaves of man.”

What really distinguished Father was that he saw souls at a glance. And not only the souls of those living on earth, but also those who have rested in Eternity, because souls are immortal... The fate of missing people and the afterlife fate of the soul was revealed to him. Father's soul reflected Heaven, the saints of God, the Angelic world, and he occasionally opened the spiritual curtain of the unearthly world. In the last five years, he has said more than once: “I am no longer earthly... I have not been here for a long time. And my head is all at home, already at Home”... He called the Kingdom of Heaven “Home”. How often Father repeated, looking at our bustling world: “I don’t need anything anymore... I’ve been There for a long time... You all keep me on earth with prayer, but it’s time for me to go to Yours... The Tsar is waiting for me, the Empress, my mother...” As evidenced by In such states of the chosen righteous Isaac the Syrian, he “felt with his senses the spiritual things of this age, exceeding human concepts, the understanding of which is possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Once, people who suddenly came in asked Father: “What were you doing just now?” “The elder raised his eyes in surprise, for the question was strange, and answered: “I pray... I always pray.”

In 2001, the spiritual children sat in Father’s cell and reflected on the prophecies of the Elder Aristoclius of Athos that they had read about the last times of the world: “Now we are experiencing the pre-tichrist time. The Judgment of God over the living has begun, and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be affected by this. It started with Russia, and then further... And Russia will be saved... But first God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people will look only to Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to its own devices. This is so that the Russian people trust in the Lord’s help. You will hear that riots will begin in other countries and similar to that that in Russia you will hear about wars, and there will be wars - now the time is near. Do not be afraid of anything, the Lord will show His wonderful mercy. The end will be through China. There will be some kind of unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And life will be completely different on earth, but not for very long. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be magnified and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”

Now the Church and Russia are ill. The essence of the disease,” Father lamented, “is that we are deprived of the deep strengthening Grace that pours out onto the Holy Head of the Anointed One of God, and through Him to our subjects, to all of Russia.” “The Anointed One, who governs us with special assistance from the Holy Spirit, the Anointed One, through whom God Himself governs us,” - this is what St. Macarius of Moscow taught. “Such is the power of the Tsar’s charisma!” - reminded the gracious Elder.
Father considered one of the main troubles to be a misunderstanding of the nature of Autocracy. Especially the clergy. With contrition of heart he said that the Church, the guardian of the Royal Grace of Confirmation, did not protect the Tsar and remained silent, most of the clergy renounced and betrayed. The rebellion against the Holy Anointed One was not condemned on behalf of the Church. They remained silent... “And now,” Father Nikolai noted bitterly, “everyone must bear penance... Especially the clergy. Redemptive penance for rejecting the Tsar. And if it weren't for the Pain of the Cross Royal Family“Who knows what would have happened to all of us, to the Russian Church”...

Constantly returning in conversations to the general falling away from the Faith, he said: “But one cannot think that Rus' has lost its strong Faith in God through the fault of one person or group of people, the guilt is common to all, we all suffer... Most of all, it was the fault of the clergy, the priesthood, which, forgetting about Heavenly, clung to the earth. They allowed the atheist sages to commit lawlessness against the people and the King.”
The Talab recluse lamented: “The people are sleeping, the clergy is sleeping. Only the Church can reveal and testify in these apocalyptic times to the Truth about the Tsar and the Royal Family.”
He often repeated: “Reverence for the Tsar and Royal Authority is a Gospel commandment that is given to all Christians, and it is a sin to violate it. Condemning God's Anointed is a sin against the Lord. For this there may be a terrible punishment from God for the Church.”
“Without true repentance there is no true glorification,” he said, “The Lord will not grant Russia a Tsar until we truly repent for allowing the Infidels to denigrate and ritually torture the Royal Family. There must be spiritual awareness."

“Prayer to Tsar Nicholas is the spiritual shield of Russia. He has the great power of God against the devil's servants. The demons are terribly afraid of the Tsar,” said the Elder. He blessed the prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, with prayers Royal Martyrs have mercy on us sinners and save the Russian land.”
“The sacrifice of Tsar Nicholas is a complete co-crucifixion with Christ, a sacrifice for Holy Rus'...”
“The Holy King did not renounce; He has no sin of renunciation. He acted like a true Christian, a humble Anointed One of God. We need to bow down at His feet for His mercy towards us sinners. It was not He who denied, but Him who was rejected.”
“The sword of a terrible war constantly hangs over Russia, and only the prayer of the Holy Tsar Nicholas averts the wrath of God from us. We must ask the Tsar so that there is no war. He loves and pities Russia. If you only knew how He cries for us there!”

The Blessed Elder spoke about what is visible through 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 elder’s revelations about the bloody torment of the Royal Angels: he said that the Children were tortured in front of the speechless Holy Sufferers, the Royal Youth was especially tortured... The Queen did not utter a word. The Emperor turned white all over. Father cried: “Lord! What did they do to them all! Worse than any torment! The angels could not mature! The angels wept over what they had done to Them! The earth wept and shook... There was darkness... They tortured, chopped with terrible axes and burned, and drank the ashes... With tea... They drank and laughed... And they suffered themselves. The names of those who did this have not been revealed. We don’t know them... They did not love and do not love Russia, they have satanic malice... After all, they drank Their Holy Blood... They drank and were afraid to become sanctified: after all, the Royal Blood is Holy. We must pray to the Holy Sufferer, cry, beg to forgive everyone... We don’t know their names. But the Lord knows everything!”

Another video: “Elder Nikolai Guryanov. A conversation about the elder with his cell attendant.”