for the impression of the trip to enter into the brothers karamazov as the prototype of the elder zosima in the book dostoevsky, the elder himself appeared in russia it’s wild to think about it, but on the graves of the elders during the soviet years there was a dance floor. and in the cells of the monastery itself there was a rest house, then a state farm, then a vocational school , the burial places of the holy elders were found with great difficulty. everything here was trampled down, the devastation was so depressing that the locals did not believe in the revival, optina. and although in soviet times the monastery stood in ruins overnight, miracles did not stop in the prayerful place. so now the monastery is experiencing its own, if possible, so to put it in the renaissance, today the bell tower has been restored in the monastery, but on the territory there is also a separate belfry; it was erected immediately after the revival of the monastery, as a temporary one, and then preserved. as a memory here on easter 1993, a tragedy occurred after breaking the fast, the brothers, optina, o