life gives us amazing examples of loyalty and friendship, when i heard this amazing story about a devoted dog, i knew that the owner would definitely return, because a real soviet man... can betray a friend. the owner turned out to be igor polsky, who was on a long business trip abroad and at the first opportunity returned for his faithful palm tree. and here comes comrade lazarev, who will take the dog and its owner to prague on his first international flight, so to speak. let's shake his hand. hello, comrade. hello, comrade, hello, hello, kolya. of course, kolya is glad that the dog will finally find its owner. tell us a little about your joy. yes, well, what does comrade

lazarev feel on this happy day before his first trip abroad, but i still don’t understand , be modest, well, friends, and now the main event is the return of igor polsky, let’s go, let’s go, comrades, let’s go, be careful, don't lag behind, don't lag behind!

comrade polish, hello, happy arrival to you, hello, we are all happy your return, tell me how you feel now before meeting your faithful friend? alma, hi, it's me, alma. why didn't you recognize me?

alma, alma, come to me. were you the one looking after her? yes, i, thank

you very much, here you go, ivan petrovich, yes, i understood you, okay, polish comrade, lazarev, can i talk to you? yes, of course, i landed, the il-62 plane, i don’t understand why you left the dog, well, it happened, and in general everything that happens here is not my initiative, it was possible for one day escape, but how do you imagine it, i received an appointment from a sales representative in prague, i fly there to work and what, goodbye, flew back, who will let me go, so much? passed, and then, as i explained to you,

i dreamed of this job all my life, finally i was there, i felt ashamed. just in komsomolskaya pravda an article was published about what a great alma is and what a scoundrel her owner is, i even wanted to write an anonymous letter that i would not come back for her, don’t let someone more worthy take her, and how to people watch your eyes after that, okay? you don’t need a dog, leave it to the boy, i can’t , wait, let me buy it from you , it’s a muscovite, it’s new, stop it, i bought it six months ago, stop it, it’s just a dog, okay, how much, i’ll add money, how much , but it’s not about the money, well, i can’t, this bald guy

called me and said, you can’t take the dog, the party card on the table will work, but i didn’t want the dog at all, they gave it to me for...

well, well, they want to tell you good things flight, good luck, all the best, thank you.

report flight readiness, the navigator is ready, right, ready, flight engineer ready, ticket, please, thank you, picture. the return

of the dog, let's go, alma, well, we have to go, where, hey , open, prepared, here, well, a couple more steps, come on, just a little more, yes , come on, come on, go, go, go, just like that, well that's it , thank you, go, calm down, calm down, let me put your briefcase upstairs, don't touch it,

let me go, let me go, kolya, calm down, calm down, kolya. the card has been read, request launch. vyacheslav yurievich, vyacheslav yurievich. slav, please fasten your belt, it means we’re going to get ready quickly, yes, we’re clearing the way for the ladder.

so what's up? lyubov arkadyevna, please don’t punish the crew, why? we won't fly anywhere today, the flight is cancelled. it's clear. anya, yes, lyubov arkadyevna, then go , announce to the passengers that the plane is waiting in line to take off, so that they don’t worry, it will be in 20 minutes, smile, katya, call me fedya, thank you, you understand that this is a malfeasance, that now they will arrest you, take you out of here, and you will put down your flight certificate, departure is expected within.

this is zhurina, zolotareva and his crew early, they have a flight to prague in 20 minutes, i said urgently, what happened, take lazarev out, you’re such a sucker, vyacheslav firovich, i have nothing against you, yes. of course,

you have a certificate for your dog? what kind of mess is going on here, there must be a certificate for the animal, so what is it, what’s the matter, there is no certificate for the dog, what kind of certificate, like love arch, you can eventually stop this circus, you can’t do it without a certificate, it seems there’s something wrong with the dog, look at how she’s breathing, she might have rabies, i’m tired of this disgrace, keep sending the plane,

the fact that this is not my dog, just like it’s not mine, but whose, this is, well, i had an alma, and this is a palm tree,

palm tree, palm tree!

once you've fastened your helmet, put your hands away, let's get into the cockpit. he called for a date, dad, palm tree, jump in, he’ll call you, agree, our airport is one of the most advanced, excuse me, now advanced, well, i must say advanced, i know, let’s say it again, our airport is one of the most advanced. airports of the ussr, we provide intercity and international transportation, the best fly with us, yours, what is this? this was an international flight pilot, vyacheslav. lazarev. wait, lazarev, whom you fired? we didn’t fire him, we suspended him

for a couple of months, but you see, he’s not wasting his time. so, now we are rewriting about the airport. come on, start it up, yeah. and i was scared , the artist makes a sculpture from a drawing on a napkin, then it grows, the model appears, then in clay, then in wax, now we have one of the most interesting... moments in the work on the sculpture of the pechora elders, clarification of the character, they are like this humble, standing in eternity, trying to penetrate into their character, into their attitude towards i discovered father ioan to people and to myself, we gather

all the courage into a fist when... a flyer and come what may, because no one controls the flight process except the lord god. father sian personally revealed special inner secrets for each person. openly , his believers reverence him as a miracle worker, as a healer and as a great confessor, because a person feels that this is a vessel of the holy spirit, how many people did father john lead to the faith, how many people did he strengthen in the faith, those who

come after the death of their father. joanna, leaving their cities and villages, they are already anticipating this spiritual communication, everyone loves him, because he is a man, a real, real christian, he prays for us there in heaven, and we know how... this prayer reaches the throne of god and today. there is no person on earth whom everyone

loves or everyone hates. it is impossible not to have enemies. they are visible and invisible, it is impossible for everyone to love us, but it is very possible and necessary for us to love everyone, amen, thank you, father ian had a wiretap in his cell, not only was he summoned to the committee, he was under special supervision, father ian did not show our acquaintance, because i was also under surveillance. we’re walking through the monastery , talking, suddenly he hits me on the hand and says: disappear so you don’t exist, i’m immediately confused, can you imagine, yes, when a person you respect tells you that, it’s just grief, grief like that. i then go to him, he says, there were deans, bishops, who are kge students, they shouldn’t see us together,

the first time i saw ocean, he didn’t make an impression on me, honestly he didn’t, well, some kind of grandfather, always in a hurry somewhere, and then only i realized who the father was, and here they are, real elders, they are humble, there is no one. was born in the tenth year, he was a man even before the revolution , we recently learned from the archives that his mother was even illiterate, although he was from a fairly wealthy family, his father owned several houses in orel, the priest was only 2 years old when his father died, the father . i went to this temple since childhood, they took him there, and here he studied at sunday school. the cousins ​​were priests, vanya was with them. already from the age of 6, he

was a priest in the temple; when he was 7 years old, naturally, a revolution broke out. in january 1918, the famous decree on the separation of church and state was published. in essence, in fact, it was already a discriminatory law. in the twenty-second year, for the first time, the soviet government began to shoot believers according to the verdicts of the tribunals. it was this year that the boy said that he wanted to become a monk, not just a priest, but a monk. this is very remarkable. a teenager of 12 years old, probably he already sees how confiscations of church valuables are taking place in moscow, in orel, in smolensk, which is not far away, among others.

church holiness, he was greatly revered, because father john was an example of the moscow priesthood, the ryazan priesthood, the solovetsky brothers came constantly , perestroika began in the eighties , the borders opened, they came from everywhere, i remember, they came from england, monks came from america, from france they came, they came from everywhere, he received them all, instructed them, admonished them, there he taught them the rules, how to properly to set up a monastery, how to properly establish spiritual life, canon law came to him with any questions, there was church structure, economics, everything, the priest

understood everything perfectly and gave the best advice. a certain atmosphere around this person, as we usually say, grace, connecting him with god and with people, nothing is given, only. prayer, suffering, endurance, understanding what the will of god is for such and such a person. i once came to atsuan during a difficult period of my life, he gave me, in general, more or less the advice i was expecting was to endure, to humble yourself. i then served in the moscow don monastery. and after talking with him, i went to the assumption cathedral, where. there was supposed to be an akathist, suddenly father ian comes in very quickly, takes me decisively by the hand,

leads me to the throne in this area, suddenly says: now listen to the will of god, you need to go to the holy patriarch to ask him to bless the creation of the pskov-pechersk courtyard in moscow. i was simply shocked. i say: “father, just a few weeks ago, patriarch announced that it would be impossible to create courtyards of provincial monasteries in moscow, otherwise there would simply be no churches left." monastic life in russia was objecting with such intensity and so that they wouldn’t even approach him with this, the father says: keep quiet, they will offer you two temple, don’t take the first two , you’ll take the third, well, for me it was

just, well, what’s left for me? yes, listen, interesting thoughts, right, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, let’s, at first they recommended the current intercession monastery to me , where are the blessed matrons, and then a huge complex in izmailovo, i really liked it in izmailovo, but remembering father ian , i refused both, the leadership in the patriarchate is already looking at me a little askance, because i am capricious, the third one they gave me was such a temple, on a large lubyanka,

former isretensky monastery. father ioan prayed for our monastery, this is the most important thing, he was an intercessor for our monasteries before god, he did not spare his keel icon, but blessed it with our monastery. he gave his most precious blessing. and just like that.

never crossed the threshold of this church, he forbade his people to enter, that is, he believed that one should not enter a heretical church. my father was tough in canonical matters, so tough that he never deviated from church canons, no self-will, only clearly, completely and graciously, next to him it was very good, next to him you were like, well,

on the eve. heaven, if not in heaven, it feels like he was waiting for you all his life, here is a meeting with you, i run after him and say there, father, father, he blesses me so much, here is his warm hand, i can’t imagine that i would now let go of his hand, father ian put his warm palms on the knees of the one with whom he was talking, some kind of unusual connection was created, i don’t remember how i ended up next to him... on his knees, he held my head in his hands, kissed the top of my head, stroked my head all this time , cried, i remember very well how titian prayed, he prayed as if there was no one around, the most pure virgin mori, thank you god , thank you, he has there was plexiglass on the desk, which means there were notes lying near someone has exams, someone has an operation

, someone else, someone... a divorce, someone has a wedding, everyone asked for his prayers, he had a special gift, the gift of prayer, god, i was still a young priest, father san came to the temple , without fail, he says: no, let’s serve the akathist, saying, well, it’s already been two nights in a row, everyone has already eaten alive, he says, let’s, let’s not, no, it’s necessary, all the young people are already falling, but he doesn’t, we must live with honor and purity to the end. and blessed me to stay here in july, he asked me everything carefully

monastery, i think how good i will be. always come and he will always, like a grandfather, take me on the head and pat me, i think how nice it is, most of all i should be afraid, i once received a lot from him. a very tough letter, i still remember it, i can’t remember without a shudder that i behave incorrectly, justify myself all the time, blame others, and for me it was a huge lesson, well, sometimes it’s like that, well, what do you say , it was just scary, we are soviet guys, komsomol, pioneers, the twenty- fifth party congress there, here suddenly completely another life. plunged into it and thought, wow, wow, i didn’t know that such a thing existed, and we, of course, got used to this life, got used to it, it was built according to different laws, i couldn’t

agree with some things, because when i had a lot of young energy and wanted to engage in vigorous activity, i knew father zacchaeus. uh at first, then he became archimadrite seraphim, the rector of the american metochion, he lived here with us for probably six months, and i became such friends with him that he agreed to me - in it means to the vladimir seminary in chicago, i ’ll run to father iann, father ion, bless , no, i don’t bless, why, what’s the matter, no, there’s a different spiritual tradition, father himself just spiritually knew that it would blow your mind so much that you’d give up everything altogether and seminary , you will go into business there, you will immediately forget about everything , he protected him in this way, because he had great spiritual reasoning, when perestroika began, the dashing nineties, the collapse of the country, ukraine separated, one day i came to father ian, he very sad

he says, hey, you heard, a priest was killed in the altar in an orthodox country, and no one could do anything, he didn’t seem to leave for a long time, just like that, he said, maybe it was discovered that it was...

he talked for a very long time, he explained how to pray, how to live, he took care of him, they brought absolutely ridiculous accusations, so he pretends to be a saint, a healer, a visionary , and so on, you can be anti-soviet , just if you are very active and often speak sermons, this is also already it could somehow alert your organs.

sincerely like a child, how can you break the fingers of a living person, did not name a single name, naturally, did not set anyone up, as now, already exhausted by torture , a man was brought to a closed prison on a smile, who wrote a denunciation against him, an indictment , father ian, knowing that it was this person who was the cause of his misfortunes, was so happy to see this dear, dear person to him anyway. that he rushed to hug him out of joy, but that man

fainted and the confrontation did not take place, help me, lord, i cherish you, teach me, forgive me, be offended by me, as you yourself, my god, forgave your enemies on the cross, because this is not only, because the established one day, which is called the forgiven resurrection, is the threshold of the beginning. great lent , and you should always carry this in your heart, there is god in your heart, there is heaven in your heart, there is love in your heart, there is peace in your heart, this is what your heart should be filled with, this is what we must follow, if we do this reason, then it will be so, from our... tormented heart, instead of anger, it will certainly ascend

prayer for our offenders. oh, lord, grant us not to offend, not to be offended, but to endure more and pray for those who offended us. we never even heard about what he wanted, well, at least somehow, even indirectly, to enjoy. triumph, revenge towards his offenders, never for his ivan mikhailovich, his complete bully, the investigator who interrogated him, says, i’m only praying for him, he’ll see, someone , it seems, said in front of me, he’ll see, no, no, no, well, don’t, when we were walking on the holy hill, he told me everything, child, you should bury me in a log , this...

then they asked a local craftsman, he made a third coffin, my father really liked it, so he already had it on his closet, but in his cell, when the time came to glorify elder simeon, father the governor expressed a desire and said: head, can’t we ask you temporarily for your coffin, and while we are glorifying, we will not make an ark for the relics of elder semeon in your coffin until we place it.

one wonderful priest, archpriest dmitry smirnov, a man of special courage, strength of will, began to cry and said: “today we are burying a holy man.” we all run to his grave, and indeed, as if he were alive, we turn, ask, speak, and also a huge number of people, this is life.

new territories of the ussr appear every year. baltic states, western belarus, western ukraine, bessarabia. a monastery that found itself in the interwar period. on the territory of estonia, so it was never closed, so it also ended up on soviet territory, i arrived there when i was 36 years old, it was the year eighty-eight, you know, uh, alive monastery, holy god, holy strong,

god stayed there every day, yes, of course he stays everywhere. so he was there so clearly, visibly, a lot was connected with father john, a man of holy life, 100%. he was a very cheerful person, very joyful, and this joy of life was always there, bad thoughts for the parishioners, is there anything, how can they get rid of this, what is it from, from blasphemous thoughts. oh, my god, my god, go admit it, and you could joke, and so to speak, you appreciated a good joke, that’s it, still i want one like that, he’ll say it, then they’ll shake his chin, then they’ll kiss, they’ll say , the tam monastery is abnormal, in the early

nineties they were giving away churches, we all thought that he would praise the situation a lot, that he... would say, thanks to the authorities, finally , she returned to god, and he suddenly said what was going on in russia, he clasped his hands, at that time there was a parade of the souvenir, russia was falling apart, what would sergius radni say, what would alexander nevsky say, yes, all our saints, they are all ...

and patriarch tikhon says to me: staff, only one archpastor, metropolitan alexy, can bear the brunt of the patriarch, suddenly he says, gives him the staff like this, well, who to vote for after that, of course , metropolitan alexy, i

accept the election of me by the consecrated local council of the russian orthodox church, the patriarch of moscow and all russia with gratitude. and not a little contrary to the verb. father ann, when he said something, it felt like he was praying internally all the time. he prepared for his sermons very seriously, he lived by this sermon for a certain period of time, he kept he wrote it down, then corrected it, then wrote it, added something, then he read out this sermon. let us hasten to do the works of god while there is still time. let us give to god the ripe fruits of our good deeds, we will live in god from god, the late patriarch pimen said that we have one confessor left, he says in russia, this is father ian christian, of course , there were confessors, there are confessors, but the scale

of the individual’s talent. when monastic tonsure is performed, it must be handed over to the elder, from the end of the temple, you crawl, ahead of the tonsure procession is the confessor, this an old man with a cross in his hand, with a candle, the two of us were getting our hair cut, and i came to see who would be given the gift. i see my father getting ready, but that’s it, i’m a happy person, i was entrusted to him, so he’s a changer, he even knew my weaknesses. so, of course, today i live by his prayer, i feel, i feel, i move just to say so, thanks to his love, his prayer, with all

my soul, with all my heart i wish you all the well-being, your success, the obedience entrusted to you, which you perform , for the glory of god’s name and for the salvation of his immortal soul. i thought that he an ordinary person, the same , well, because, probably, there is no prophet in one’s own fatherland, he was only ordained at the age of 35, he worked as an accountant, then as a senior accountant, in some kind of trade union activity, the old man was also involved, father san was good he knew moscow with us, lived there, he loved moscow, always met with patriarch pimen, they were the same age, he had churches. to whom he went to worship at the shrines, that’s where he served in izmail, there is a revered icon of the mother of god of jerusalem,

so big, big, probably 2 by 2 meters, probably such a very large icon, he always served either a maleben or a liturgy, he was such a close, dear person to me, we met rarely, but when we met in moscow, we visited expensive places for him, but also for me. also a cemetery, for example , here is the spiritual father of hegumin ioan sokolov , he talked about the priests who were buried there, who suffered for their faith, it was unusual for me when suddenly father san gave me this advice: don’t believe, don’t be afraid, don’t ask, and it was certainly powerful to hear from his lips, my father himself said, nowhere did he... pray so much as in the camp, i was much closer to god, this closeness from the suffering

of a martyr of modern times, he says: “mish, there in one place we worked at the lesopaval, i had to go through a deep stream, and a log was placed across the stream, in winter it turned pale, and my glasses were also broken. i walked along the log, i understand that one step and i would be gone, father ian was very revered among the prisoners, for example, even the criminals called him our dad, you know, and he he confessed to people there, in the arkhangelsk region he brought the head of the regime to faith, he was sentenced to 8 years, but he spent 5 years. because in the fifty -fifth year there was an amnesty, thank god, because the last year he was in a camp for the poor, on the right bank

of the volga river there is a continuation of the zhiglev mountains in a stone bowl between them in the narrowest place of the volga there was olp number one for the disabled, it was here from october 1953 he continued to serve his sentence. father ian and here, well, they just sent people to die, and there is burial, but they are fraternal, people suffered, people prayed, people asked for god's help, father anton gains the glory of a confessor here, taking walks, he pretended that he was just talking, and made confessions, despite the fact that he was not a monk, did not perform great ascetic feats, but this complete surrender of oneself to the will of god, it is essentially the highest... the feat that father iann performed here, he had twin brothers, already old, they remembered their prisons, how they...