Experience of Constructing a Confession

The author of this book, Archimandrite John
(Krestyankin), Born on 11 April, 1910 in the city of Orel in a large family and was the eighth child with parents. The boy was named in honor of John the Desert, whose memory is celebrated by the church on this day. Since childhood, Vanya Koratyankin lived in the temple and was in obedience to the famous
with its monastic severity of the archbishop
Oryol Seraphim. In 1945, in the temple at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow, John the Koratyankin was ordained a deacon, then the Patriarch Alexy I in the Izmailovsky Church ordained him in a priest. Here he served until 1950, until the authorities arrested him, but the charges of anti -Soviet agitation and sent seven years to the camps. Freed Fr. John ahead of schedule in 1955 after his liberation was sent to serve in the Pskov diocese, then to the Ryazan diocese.
In 1966, Priest John accepted the monasticism, and since 1967 he became the inhabitant of the Holy Assumption Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, where he worked to a blessed death in 2006