As Colonel Plikhankov became an old man Barsonophy.. Skorobotko N.V.

The name about. Barsonofia (Plikhankova) occupies a special place among the great Optina elders. He was one of the spiritual leaders of Russia in the most difficult, pre-revolutionary, period 1903-1913. This little book introduces young readers to his childhood, life in the world, monastic ascetic works, which acquired fertile gifts from the Lord, as well as with the most interesting cases from the life of the elder.