optina pustyn peace in the soul, this is not a miracle. ng to optina for a very long time, i wanted it, and even if it seems to you that you have gathered here by accident, do not call it an accident, because this is your personal invisible invitation. he wanted for 7 years already. but now what is called you from here as a different person, but at least? think about many things. i've had real miracles in my life. hundreds of people come to optina every day, most go with problems and get relief. after all , not for nothing. they say that this is one of the most revered and prayed places of orthodox russia. pilgrimages here it has long been spoken to optina for experience. optina pustyn monastery, located in the kaluga region, was empty in the old days called the places of secluded monastic settlements. and optina and you are a robber of experience, who repented and took the tonsure with the name macarius and from the leaders of the robber. he became the father and founder of the new optina pustyn monastery , this is, first of all, its elder

he took optina pustyn, he had a number of diseases and the doctor who treated him said that according to all medical indicators, this person would live half an hour an hour, but he treated him with hearts for years and later. for a long significant time, he converted to orthodoxy through this, being a foreigner. if i am not mistaken, a lutheran, st. ambrose could speak with everyone in his language to help illiterate peasant woman. to give advice to a wealthy landowner and answer the questions of fyodor dostoevsky and leo tolstoy, the elder's conversations with the guests took place in a special room. asceticism reigns here , but these walls have seen even royal persons and with the name of romanov on the wall there is a kind of gallery of portraits of those who visited the ambros. this is one of the rooms in the hut of the monk ambrose at that time, specially arranged for the reception of honored visitors, where they could have a private conversation with the elder, maybe confess leo tolstoy visited optina six times. the first meeting of tolstoy and the elders in russia was in 1877 .