after the war, nikolai ilyin returns to his parents in serpukhov.again and got a job on the railway. a few months later he became the chief engineer of the track and road workshops in pinsk. then he works as an economist in the statistical department of the pinsk region. in 1953 he returned to serpukhov and got a job as a stoker in a children's tuberculosis sanatorium. in january fifty-eighth, as as a novice he comes to zherovich. george will already be 49, he will be tonsured a monk with the name mithraphanes. for 40 years he carried a candle box to obedience, accepted notes of health and repose, he was the first person with whom pilgrims and believers met. mithraphanes was called the monastery's accountant. he was there a little, he was also related, he still loved to turn off the lights, he saved money. when, after perestroika, all this increase in price, he began to save light in the monastery, and there were, well , somewhere large light bulbs, he exchanged them for more or less ones there, well, as if there was light, there anyway, there, so s

on january 6, 1943 , on the eve of christmas, nikolai ilyin was accepted into the partisan detachmentf the kosovo, ruzhany and berezovsky districts, he was a miner and learned the basics of the rail war, and already in august he became the commander of a subversive group. we ask, how do you feel? that he felt, he felt fear, he felt fear every second when you plant a mine under these flights, he even said himself that he once decided at the last second to check the fuse so that it would stand up in his hands, it would explode, he would die, but at the last minute he checked , it’s defective, there was a case when the group went on reconnaissance, the commander was called to headquarters, the task no one returned, more than once nikolai ilyin was on the verge of death, but he did not like to remember it. after the war, nikolai ilyin returned to his parents in serpukhov, in 1948 he again went to belarus and got a job on the railway. a few months later he became the chief engineer of the track and road workshops in pinsk. then he works as an economist in the statistical department of the

teachers of seminaries, pilgrims and workers, but that... in the far east, then the family moved to nikolai ilyin province, after graduating from school nikolai went to moscow to study. after receiving a diploma from the moscow highway institute, in march '41, nikolai ilyin was assigned to the construction of the osovtsy military airfield near bereza. on the very first day of the war, the airfield was bombed, more than a thousand soviet aircraft were destroyed along the entire front line. a few months later he was the chief engineer of the track and road workshops in pinsk, then he worked as an economist in the statistical department of the pinsk region, and on the third he returned to serpukhov and got a job as a stoker in a children's tuberculosis sanatorium. in january, as a novice, he comes to zherovichi monastery, in a little more than a month nikolai will take his first monastic vows with the name george, after 6 years, when... father viktor bikarevich. from the first days of the war, when many of his parishioners were called to the front, the village priest began to help women with food an