Father Arseny. Editor: T. Nikitina

Father Arseny - a unique book, one of the most read among Orthodox Christians, has been known since 1975 back in Samizdat, and since 1993 he has been reprinted dozens of times in many languages. Undoubtedly, she made the strongest impact on a very large circle of readers. Publishers have repeatedly received evidence that, having read this narrative about the highest Christian feat in the 20th century, people gained faith in God, came to church, changed their lives.

“Father Arseny” is a collection of literally processed memoirs of eyewitnesses about real events that happened to them with the remarkable shepherds who passed the males of persecution for Christ, as well as their stories about his spiritual experience, about how the Lord helped They go through a multi -wise path of persecution for faith. The name of the protagonist can be called a common “pseudonym” for several modern ascetics, confessors of faith, whose fate was reflected in the book.