The elders and predictors of Optina

On the pages of this book in the lives of elders will be held in front of you the whole history of Optics of the desert base, the sunrise time and the closure of the monastery. They were few, the Optina elders, fourteen hundred years. Thanks to them, the Optina monastery flock the spiritual center of Russia and a place of pilgrimage for many people.
In the nineteenth century said: "To Optina for experience". And coming... with the ills and diseases - the common people, with questions about the meaning of life - intellectuals. Not once came to Optina Pustyn brothers Kireevskii, N. In.Gogol, F. M. Dostoevsky, L. N. Thick.