imagine the city of kranstat, early in the morning.streets are empty, at about 3:00 in the morning the priest rises, begins the day with prayer, father ian sleeps, the cassock-dressers, as if to keep themselves always ready. according to the key's memoirs st. andrew's cathedral, father. from 4:00 in the morning, not paying attention to the weather, he walks around the courtyard and garden, saying prayers, a little later, the gates of the house open, father iann heads to the cathedral, a large crowd is waiting for him at the gates, they rush to meet him, asking for blessings, at the cathedral new picture, along the bars of the cathedral garden in orderly rows stands the army of father john, the so -called, ragged of all genders and all ages, numbering up to 700 people, father ian divides the poor into dozens and gives each... tens a certain amount of money for division already among them. at six o'clock the bell rings. father ian, accompanied by people from all over russia, enters the temple and heads to altai. it starts in the morning.