Win prayer!.. Letters of Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkova) Nadezhda Pavlovich

Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov; 1880-1961) -Do their bright figures of the Russian Church. Having left Russia after the revolution, for more than 20 years he headed the exarchates of the Moscow Patriarchate, first in Europe, then in America, and returned to the Soviet Union in 1947. XX century. He himself described the pre -revolutionary and foreign periods of life in the autobiographical essay “At the turn of two eras”, but he did not leave us a whole picture of his life in his homeland: the years of service in the USSR are described fragmentarily in different works. Therefore, the letters of Metropolitan Veniamin to the spiritual daughter of the elder of Nectaria of the Optinsky poetess Nadezhda Alexandrovna Pavlovich are so important for the first time.