Notes of the writer of the elder

The author of the book Tatyana Sergeyev Smirnova is a man who knew closely the elder and confessor of the Pskov -Pechersky monastery Archimandrite John (peasant) For many years she was his assistant, a cell and a writer.
Conducted in the distant 1969 by the Providence of God to the monastery and met the Father John there, she became one of his faithful spiritual children. Incidentally, obedience near the elder from 1981 to his death in 2006, she was a witness to the secret spiritual life of her mentor.
The memoirs of T. S. Smirnova reveal to the reader the previously unknown pages of the life of Father John, and also show how the Providence of God invisibly, relentlessly and graciously is present in our lives.
3rd edition