► Sberbank 2202 2061 4395 2575 Please support our work! https://t.me/glinskie The great elder Nikolai Guryanov foresaw a lot. Andrei Lukin recalled: “From my youth I became addicted to alcohol, and by the age of 26 I realized that I could not do without it for long. I began to look for a way out, tried to get coded - it did not help, it only got worse ... I began to take vows. I promised before God, on the cross and the Gospel, in the presence of a priest to abstain from alcohol, first for six months, then for a year and a half. This continued for six years, but the trouble is that as soon as the end of the vow came, literally on the same day I began to drink again, since the passion was approaching and it was impossible to fight it. And so in 1999, in August, I came to Zalit Island to see Father Nikolai Guryanov. I went up to him and said: “Father, bless me not to drink for three years and not to smoke for a year (to take vows).” Father Nikolai blessed me with a large cross and said: “You will neither drink nor smoke for the rest of your life.” Seven years have passed since then, and during this time I have not even had the thought (thank God!) of either drinking or smoking. But I had been smoking for more than 20 years. And two years before this wonderful event, my wife and her eldest daughter went to see Father Nikolai with the question of whether or not I should quit my secular job and work entirely in the church. Father, not knowing my name, said to my wife: “I bow low to Andryushenka, and I ask for your prayers.” What humility Father has – how he called me, an alcoholic… And he answered his wife: “You don’t need to quit your secular job, but let him work as a choirmaster.” And so it happened: “I worked”, after half a year, less, I had to leave the regents. My wife also asked about our daughter: should she continue studying, since her academic performance was not very good, to which the elder said: “Study, study and study. A three and a four are also good marks.” My daughter graduated from school, a secondary specialized institution, and is now studying at a higher education institution, in her fourth year. When she entered, she got an A for her main subject, and a B for the others. But at school she got Cs!” Olga Kormukhina, a famous singer, shared: “I must say that at that time I had two serious problems: smoking (I could not quit smoking, although I really wanted to) and I also liked tasty alcoholic drinks. I was, so to speak, “high” on exquisite liqueurs, rums, wines and could not do anything about it… So we approached the house and saw: people gathered in groups around the elder; we joined them. And he runs among people and asks: “Do you drink, do you smoke? Do you drink, do you smoke? Do you drink, do you smoke?” But he doesn’t ask me. I think: “But this is my problem. And he doesn’t ask me.” I want to say it, but I can’t. I feel like the devil has shut my mouth. I just naturally feel it. The veins in my neck are bulging, but I can’t say a word. But I feel that if I don’t say it now, it’s the end for me. Just the end. And that’s it! I strained with all my might and prayed: “Lord! Help me!” And then I screamed: “Father! I drink, I smoke! I hate myself for it!” And it was as if he was waiting for this, ran up to me, crossed himself over his mouth and said: “That’s it. You won’t do it anymore.” And indeed, it was July 19, 1997, and since then I haven’t had any alcohol or cigarettes. One professor of mathematics, a Russian, came with his English friend, also a professor of mathematics, a complete non-believer. And the Russian prayed very much for him to believe. And the Englishman had a thought: “If this elder shows me a miracle, then I will believe.” They arrived, the priest met them, took them into the cell and immediately, from the first words, said: “What miracle should I show you, son?” He went up to the switch and started clicking: “Here there is light, but here there is no light. Here there is light, but here there is no light. Ha-ha-ha.” They laughed, and Father Nikolai sent them home: “Go, sons, with God, quietly for now.” The Englishman also laughed: what kind of miracles can there be? After all, he is a learned man. They came back from the island to the mainland, and there was a crowd of people, police, some workers dragging wires. “What happened?” - “There has been no light on the islands for three days now.” And our scientist immediately turned the boat back." Anna Ivanovna Trusova recalled: "I came to the island with my nephew. He defended a man who was attacked by hooligans. As a result, he was unfairly accused. The investigator gave him two articles. We went to the elder Nikolai to ask for his holy prayers. The priest did not ask why or for what reason, but I suddenly saw how his eyes changed - I had never seen such eyes in anyone in my life. He had gone far away, he was not present here, among us. I simply trembled from this priest's gaze. I do not know how long he pray