This book, which we present to you, is one of the well-known spiritual books, and has its status and place in modern religious literature. Translated into many languages, [...]

Tourist: My dear friend, the professor, and I could not resist the desire to start our journey and pay you a short visit before that to bid farewell and ask

The sixth story from the book A Russian Tourist on the Paths of God

STARTS: It had been a year since my last encounter with the tourist, when - finally - a muffled knock on the door and a pleading voice...

“And it has pleased me to be close to God, and I have made the Lord my refuge and my hope” (Psalm 72:28). When I returned to my spiritual father's house, I said:

Before I left Irkutsk, I returned to my godfather, with whom I had had conversations, and said to him: Here I am going.

As long as I moved from place to place, I was accompanied by the Jesus prayer, which strengthened and comforted me on all paths, at all times.