nun paraskeva in the world natalya aleksandrovna elskaya, born in the city of chisinau. she received the sacrament of holy baptism in june 1979 in the church of the transfiguration of the lord in the village of kopys, arshansky district, vitebsk region, where her father is from. in 1997 she decided on a monastic lifestyle and on september 11 of the same year she entered the holy protection convent in the city of kiev. and so i take advantage of the moment, because in a monastery you are somehow more concentrated, probably the lord really hears you closer, because everything contributes to this. the monastery is very prayerful, there were up to 400 sisters at the time i arrived there, i also found nuns who were caring for the wounded from the front, when the monastery was turned into a hospital during the great patriotic war, and of course, at that time there was also the grand duchess was not glorified, but we all went to her grave and asked... each for his own thing, so, perhaps, the grand duchess heard me, and something sounded in my heart that i had to leave this soci