great-great-grandfather, konstantin travin, he was the regent, the leader of the church choir in nizhny novgorod cathedralich was in the kremlin, unfortunately, only two notebooks and his photograph were preserved from the great-grandfather; during the soviet period, the great-grandmother, fearing the consequences, was forced to destroy all documents related to his activities as regent, his notebooks, but that’s when we started looking for information, this was the first photograph, the first documents that i came across when we began to study our genealogy, and then, when i... began to grow up, at the age of 6 my grandmother brought me to church for worship, it was just an ordinary weekday, without any holiday, there was a service in the church, a liturgy, there weren’t very many people, but i remember this day as a day when in silence without any fuss, and for the first time i could pray, of course, back then -childish, simply, perhaps, without special prayers, but for me this day was remembered as the day when... for the first time i consciously came to the temple and communicated with god. the priest

year on the cathedral square in kharkov, father ian. 2/3 of luzhniki, similar scenes were observed in polozhsk cities during the priest's pilgrimage, in samara, saratov, kazan, nizhny novgorodaan of kronshtatsky's father on his annual trip to the north, wrote travel essays for the petersburg leaflet newspaper. everyone was just amazed at the energy of this wonderful man, to get up before everyone else and serve. harsh scholasticism and dead formulas brought a living word to fragile souls and minds. we quote: the kingdom of god is not in words, but in power - father john reminded, good is obedience in to all the mothers of the church, but with prudence, and if possible, accommodate those who can, that is, those who can accommodate, let them accommodate prolonged prayer, but not everyone can accommodate this word, that is, not everyone can accommodate this word. if a long prayer is incompatible with the ardor of the spirit, it is better to make a short one, but... “si in heaven, hallowed be your name in russia, may your kingdom come in russia, may your will be done in russia, plant the true faith in it, life-giving, may she be reigning and dominant in russia, and not equalize