Who killed monks in Optina. Ritual murder in the optical desert in the Easter night of three monks: Ieromonach Vasily, Inok Trofim and Ferapont

The 25th anniversary of the killed by the Optina monks of the monastery, headed by Shepherd, acting the governor of the Optio Desert by Igumen Nikita (Surikov), met with a Cathedral request to the Synodal Commission on canonization of the Martyrs of Hieromonach Vasily (Roslakov), Inok Trofim (Tatatnikova) and Ferapont (Pushkareva).

Many pilgrims arrived yesterday in Optio deserts to honor the memory of the optical new martyrs killed for Easter 1993. And it is no coincidence that, the blood of the martyrs is evidence of the truth of the Resurrection of Christ.

"Martyrs, experiencing terrible torments, only could endure them because they were always with the Lord," said the Rev. Optine old man of Warsonofi. - Correspondence with me ashut (John 15, 27). And we will be able to endure our grief, only if we are with the Lord. "

Many believers are waiting for the day, and the Orthodox Church will come, and rather the Synodal Canonization Division will call the bishops and priests to serve not a memorialist, and the Optina Holy New Martyrs who were killed by Satanists on the great church holiday Easter. The Lord has long glorified these martyrs in heaven. This is evidenced by the wonders of healing and help on their holy prayers.

Yesterday I came to Optio deserts and the mother of the killed Ieromonach Vasily 98-year-old Staritsa Nuns Vasiliss (Roslakov).

"I'm still alive, because my only son O.Vasilius prays about me there." Shortly before death, I asked him about how I would be without you? You became a monk and who will care for me when I am? I was still worldly and did not really understand anything in monastic. And he answered so confidently: "I will take care of you."

And indeed, he invisibly manifests his care. According to his prayers, the Lord sends me people, assistants to be easier to carry his cross.

Mother Vasiliss, of course, is very tired of the long road. But still a complacent state was not able to hide.

Christ is Risen! - She said with a smile to everyone who approached her.

The only grief yesterday for her and for the brethth of the monastery was only what was headed by a memorial monk from Moscow Archimandrite Melchizedek (Artyukhin) arrived from Moscow.

"This Melchizedek is guilty to the fact that my son was killed," said Mother. - Of course, the fishing of God was that my son with other brothers became martyrs. And I understand now it. But both from Christ was Judas, and Optica has his Judas, who betrayed the death of my son. God is a judge to him.

Our conversation was interrupted by binding to a memorial meal. But despite the chagrins, after all, joy in Christ Jesus triumphant.

Today, a great holiday for the Opinsky monastery, which in the future will be one of the main church festivals of Saint Rus.

I remember how returning home at dawn, sat down to talk for the festive table, and soul rushed to Paradise: behind the post - Redkin's tail, and now the Pir to the whole world. "Easter red! Easter!" - We sang from the soul. And they did not even pay attention, when the old woman-pilar of Alexander Yakovlevna knocked the window, asking: "Do not know what happened in an optimal? They say the priest killed. " I dismissed, without believing, - Did you kill in Easter? This fiction is all! And ate again and sang. Singing broke away from some kind of ringing silence in the ears. Why is it silent optical and not heard bells? The air at this time is buzzing from Blagovest. Rushed into the street, peering into the monastery behind the river - in the disveway fog Bell, Majak Optina. And this dead silence was a sign of such troubles that they rushed to the phone to call to the monastery and Obomlie, having heard: "In connection with the murder and the work of the investigation, he said a dry police voice," we don't give information. " How we fled to the monastery! And fiery signs rose in memory cleaned on the eve - death will never abduct her husband, aspiring to perfection, but takes the righteous when he is ready. Who is killed today in optical? Who is ready? Death took the best - this is clear. Who? So fled, stealing from tears and appealing in horror: "Lord, do not take our elder from us! Mother of God, save my spiritual father! " Oddly enough, but in these prayers among the names of the devotees were not remembered. Vasily, nor about. Ferapont, nor about. Trofim. They were good and beloved, but, as it seemed, ordinary.

Talks Jeromona Mikhail:"At six o'clock in the morning, Liturgy began at the Skit, and I noticed that for some reason it was delayed about. Vasily - he had to confess. Suddenly, the altar did not even enter the altar, and somehow crawled along the wall of Eugene's novice and says: "Batyushka, remember the newly-represented killed inok Trofim and Ferapont. And pray for the health of Ieromonach Vasily. He is seriously injured. "

The names were familiar, but I didn't think in my thoughts that it could happen in optical. Probably think it's somewhere on Sinai. And I ask Eugene: "What kind of monastery are they?" "OUR", "he replied.

Suddenly I see that Ierodiakon Hilarion, hiding, falls, it seems to the altar. I managed to pick it up and shaking my shoulders: "Take yourself in hand. Come on the Ektin. " And he choke from tears and the words could not express. " Instead of about. Herodiakon Rafail came out to Ambon, Ierodiakon Rafail and somehow not his voice, without hitting the diakali, he headed Ekinhu: "And they will also pray for the rest of the newly represented killed brethren of our Trophim and Feraponte. Ka-AK?! Dying about. Vasily was taken out at this time on the "ambulance" to the hospital. But the wound was deadly, and soon the Bulletin came running to the skit: "Father Vasily killed too!" The temple was crying, surviving the death of two inkoms, and the Ierodiakon Hilarion with a poured tears face was already new to New Ekinhu: "And they will also pray for the newly represented Killed Ieromonach Vasily."

Ka-AK?!

Even years later, it is difficult to survive, it is difficult - blood-filled with blood and tears from the tears of a young novice Alexei: "Bratikov killed! Brother! .. "

The murder was calculated and carefully prepared. Local residents remember how before an Easter killer came to the monastery, squatted at the bells, studying the poses of the risks, and the inputs and outputs were inspecting. The eastern wall of the monastery was composed of a huge firewood clip, which reached the top of the walls. Before the murder, and clearly not in one day, the pioneer was posted as a comfortable ladder, which might be on the top of the walls could be easily and a child. It was this way that then left the killer from the monastery, dropping through the wall and throwing a homemade sworn sword near her with a label "Satan 666", a finge with three sixes on it and a black naval sinel. About overcoat. In those years, we will remind, the monastery donated a large batch of black fleets, and they were a uniform of the optical pilgrims-hardships or a kind of identification sign - this is their own monastic man. Especially for killing CultProwver. Nikolai Averin, born borne, 1961, released a beard, to have the appearance of the Orthodox pilgrim, and took out black sinels somewhere: they were found in him then at home when searching along with books on black magic and a chopped Bible. But for the murder, he took the Schinel coin of one pilgrim at the Skit Hotel and laid the passport and the employment record of another pilgrim in her pocket. Alien Sinel with documents he threw a bloody sword. According to these, "evils" immediately found "criminals" and, twisting their hands, plunged into the chamber. And one of them, the defenseless disabled, who is not able to kill even a fly, "Moscow Komsomolets" immediately declared a killer.

How many grief fell out optimal when the murder of the three brothers aggravated the arrests of innocent, and the sea looked like a slander!

In St. John, Zlatoust, there is a subtle observation that that night, when Christ, with the disciples, taught Easter, the members of the Sancedrin, gathering together the sake of murder, refused to taste the Easter to the period established by law: "Christ would not miss Easter time," he writes, " But his killers dared to everyone, and violated many laws. " For the murder was elected Holy Day of Easter, and the hour of murder is carefully calculated. It is always crowded in optical, and there is only a small period of time when the courtyard is empty. "Liturgy will begin soon?" - asked the killer at Pickomnitz. - "At six in the morning," answered him. He waited for this hour.

The Easter Morning proceeded like this: in 5.10, liturgy ended, and monastic buses were taken away from the optical local residents and pilgrims returning home. Militia left with them. And brethren and pilgrims living in Optina went into the refectory. Remember that about. Vasily sat only a little bit at the table, without touching anything. He had two more services ahead, and he always served an empty stomach. Soon a little with brother and warmly congratulating everyone with Easter, oh. Vasily went to his cell. Apparently, he was tormented by thirst, and passing by the kitchen, he asked cooks:

- And there is no boiling water?

- No, Father Vasily, but you can warm.

"I will not have time," he replied.

In the lives of the Holy Martyrs, it is told that they fasted on the eve of the execution, "in order to meet the sword in the post." And everything went out as in life, - the sword about. Vasily met in the post.

Inok Trofim before going to the belfry, managed to go to his cell and began to deal with the Easter egg. And the story of this egg was special.

From the memories of the novice Zoe Afanasyeva, St. Petersburg journalist at that time: "I came to Optio the desert, I was still inserted and doubting in many ways in the shower. Once I confessed to Inak Trofim, that I was ashamed all the time - there are such a strong faith around me, and for some reason I do not believe in miracles. Our conversation took place on April 17, 1993 - on the eve of Easter. And Inok Trofim brought an Easter egg from his cell, saying: "Tomorrow, this egg will be exactly a year. Tomorrow I eat it in your eyes, and you will make sure that it is absolutely fresh. Then believe? " The faith in Inok Trofim was Evangelskaya, and every time Easter, he recalled, he had been dealt with last year's Easter egg - always viscisive and as if by the sacrament of the future century, where the "time would not be already" (Rev. 10, 6). Following the murder remained a few minutes. And as if forgetting about the reclosure with the roy, the ink was in a hurry to try on last year's easter egg, wanting to touch the Miracle of Easter, where everything is not subject to time and is not exposed. Nevertheless, Zoya was notified of the miracle. Data on the fresh egg eaten by the Inok Trofim before death listed in the protocol by the Pallaanan, not even suspecting that it is annual prescription. And then this egg fell into the film "Optina New Martyrs" - the film operator fixed the shell of the Easter egg in the frame, believing that he removes the last earthly meal of the ink and unaware that she removes an Easter miracle.

By six o'clock in the morning, the courtyard of the monastery was empty. Everyone was separated from the Cales, and others went to the early liturgy into the skit. The latter went to the Skit Igumen Alexander, turning onto the knock of the heels, - from his cell on the wooden stairs rapidly ran in the ink Trofim. "This is the breed we have such lucky," then explained Mom about. Trofim. - Grandma Trofima did all the run, I'm running all my life. So my son ran to death. "

Igumen Alexander recalls: "Very joyful was ink Trofim. "Batyushka," says, bless, I go call. " I blessed and asked, looking at the empty belftle:

- How old will you call?

- Nothing, now someone is suitable.

How did I pull to go with him to the belfry! But I did not know how to call - what is the sense of me? And it was necessary to go to serve in the skit. "

Looking for ringing about. Trofim looked into the temple, but there were not there. In the temple, the pilgrimage Elena was removed, the charter to despondency after a sleepless night. But I could not see the despondency of neighboring ink. "Lena, Ida! .." - he did not say "call", but I portrayed it. And so fadingly, happily threw his hands to the bells, that Lena, asking, went after him. But someone called her from the depths of the temple, and she was delayed.

From the porch of the Temple Trofim saw the ink feponta. It turns out that he was the first to come to the belfry and, without making anyone, decided to go to his celu. "Ferapont!" - called His ink Trofim. And the two best risks of Optina got up to the bells, the Sunday of Christ.

The first was killed inok Ferapont. He fell, pierced by a sword through, but as it was, no one saw. In the working notebook of Inok, they say, last post remained: "Silence is the mystery of the future century." And as he lived on Earth in silence, and left a quiet angel in the future century.

Following him flew to the Lord of the soul of the Soca Trofim, killed as a blow to the back. Inok fell. But already killed - the wounded to death - he is truly "renovated from the dead": pulled up on the ropes to the bells and hit the Nabath, swaying the bells is already dead body and immediately falling silent. He loved people and already in death rose to defend the monastery, raising the monastery.

The bells have their own language. Ieromona Vasily walked at this time to confess into the skete, but, having heard the call of Nabath, turned to the bells to meet the murderer.

In the murder, everything was taken into account, except for this great love of Trofim, who gave him the strength to hit the Nabath, contrary to death. And from this minute witnesses appear. Three women walked at Hozdvor for milk, and among them the pilar of Lyudmila Stepanov, now Inokine Domn. But then she first got into the monastery, and therefore asked: "Why calendons call?" "The" Christ is famous, "they answered. Suddenly the bells were slaughtered. They saw from published that Inhib Trofim fell, then pulled up with a prayer to the ropes, hit several times in a volatile and fell again.

The Lord gave to Easter to each his reading. And Lyudmila read the day before, as a grateful end, when dying with a prayer on the mouth. She heard the last prayer of Inok Trofim: "OUR OUR, HOME HOME!", Thinking in Book: "What a good death is with a prayer." But this thought flashed unconsciously, for no one thought about death at that moment. And at the sight of the fallen ink, all three thought the same - trophim badly, seeing at the same time, as a low growth of the "pilgrim" in the black cooler jumped through the ringtails of the bells and runs, it seemed to the medical center. "Here is a kind soul," the women thought, "the doctor ran".

It was a peaceful easter morning. And the thought of murder was so alien to everyone that the Various Merperic who had nearby rushed to make an artificial respiration to Inoku Ferapont, believing that he had a bad heart. And from under Ryas, the blood prisoners had already appeared, pouring the belfry. And here the women shouted scary. Actually, all this happened instantly, and in confusion of these minutes, the last words of Inok Trofim were heard in different ways: "Lord, nice us!", "Lord, have mercy! Help". The killer flew away from the belfry was seen two pilgrimitsa, just the temples that appeared at the altar part and scorching at the sight of blood. Next to them stood two men, and one of them said: "Just pick up, and you will be the same." The attention of everyone in this moment was riveted to the blood-filled bell. And someone only the edge of the eye noticed, as a person runs away from the belfry towards Hozdvor, and to meet about. Vasily runs the "pilgrim" in black overcoat. How was killed about. Vasily, no one saw, but he was killed, too, a blow to his back.

Here is one of the murder mysteries, which does not give anyone and now: how could a low-sufficient person be cut through three heroes? Inok Trofim Kochergu tied a bows. Inok Ferapont, who served five years near the border of Japan and owned it by martial arts, could hold defense against the crowd. And about. Vasily, Masters of Sports in the past, there were such biceps that they hit the risas, shrinking her on her shoulders like Nacre. So, the whole thing is that beat from the back? They remember, Inok Trofim had perfect hearing, and it was worth about. Feraponte a little bit mistaken, as he corrected: "Ferapont, not so!" He could not not hear how he fell about. Ferapont and silent his bells. All the bells, finally, the size of the room, and the strangers here it is impossible to appear unnoticed. But the fact of the matter is that the insidual came the werewolf, who has the appearance of his monastery person. "A friend came," Mother Oh is responsible for his son. Trofim. - He loved people and thought: friend. "

Once in his youth about. Vasily asked: What is the worst for him? "Knife in the back," he replied. The knife in the back is a sign of betrayal, because only your person can come up in the afternoon as a friendly thing is close to kill treacherously from the back. "The Son of the Human will be devoted," said in the Gospel (MK. 10, 33). And the Judas betrayed Christ was also worn around, acting under the liquefit love: "And she came immediately to him and says:" Rabbi, Rabbi! " And kissed him "(MK. 14, 15).

The investigation found that about. Vasily met face to face with a killer, and was a brief conversation between them, after which about. Vasily trustfully turned his back to the murderer. The blow was deposited from the bottom up - through the kidneys to the heart. All insides were cut. But about. Vasily still stood on his feet and, having made a few steps, fell, pouring a young grass with blood. He lived after that for about an hour, but life went away from him with blood flows.

Then this flooded blood of the earth stood a sports team about a circle. Vasily, who arrived at the burial. Huge, two-meter masters of sport sobbed, like children, rose rose rose. They loved about. Vasily. Once he was their captain and led the team to victory, and then he led them to God, becoming for many spiritual father. The grief of these strong people was immeasurable, and did not give peace of the question: "How could this" plugash "defeat their captain?" And now at the murder site, they launched the last battle of the captain: Yes, beat in the back. But about. Vasily still stood on his feet. They knew their captain - it was a zipper man with such a stunning powerful throw that even at the last minute he could enjoy a crushing blow to the killer, shining it. Why not shrink?

Even years later, the case of murder in optical mysteries. But once on the day of the Cathedral of confessors and new martyrs of the Russian young visitors, Ieromonov said the sermon. And remembering about. Vasily, suddenly beaten, told about how the three robbers were attacked on the presented Seraphim of Sarovsky in the forest. Reverend was with an ax and such force that could stand up for himself. "In the life of Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky speaks," the preacher told, - that when he raised the ax, he remembered the words of the Lord: "We took the sword, a sword and perished." And he threw the ax from himself. " That's the answer to the question, and could be about. Vasily wrap to the killer a response to the murderer? The boldness of the atrocity was on that and it was built that there is a holy land where even the air is written with love. And the top of the execution of the Orthodox monks, the executioner was confident - they will not be killed here. First to fallen about. Vasili ran up the twelve-year-old Natasha Popova. The girl's vision was good, but she saw an incredible - oh. Vasily fell, and to the side of him a black terrible beast was rejected and, having swallowed the Lestenka-Fully from firewood located nearby, jumped through the wall, hiding from the monastery. Runly, the killer threw off her pilgrim cochier, and a little later silent his beard - Masquerade was no longer needed.

"Batyushka," the girl asked later, - why did I see the beast instead of man?

"But because the power is what the animal, satanic," the old man replied, "this is the soul and saw it."

Natasha Popova's story:"Father Vasily lay on the track near the gate leading to the skit. The rosary at the fall flew away, and the father somehow raised his hand. Why he fell, I did not understand. Suddenly saw that the father was all in the blood, and the face was distorted by suffering. I leaned toward him: "Batyushka, what about you?" He watched me past me - in the sky. Suddenly the expression of pain disappeared, and the face became such enlightened, as if he saw Angels converging from heaven. Of course, I do not know what he saw. But the Lord showed me this extraordinary transformation in the face of Batyushki, because I am very weak. And I do not know how I experienced the whole horror of the murder and death of my best friend about. Trofim, if it did not stand before her eyes, this enlightened face O.Vasiliy, as if he had an immentic already light. " Dying about. Vasily was transferred to the temple, putting the relics of Rev. Amvrosia near the cancer. The father was whiter paper and could not speak. But judging by the movement of the lips and the concentration of the view, he prayed. The Lord bestowed by Ieromonakh Vasily Title the martyrdom. Doctors say that with such converted insides, people proceed to cry from pain. And there was a moment when about. Vasily prayed prayer to the relics of the elder, asking the fortifications. He prayed to the last breath, and prayed in tears all Optina. There was already agony when "ambulance" arrived. How did everyone sorry, then did not give about. Vasily die in his native monastery! But it was so pleased with the Lord so that he would take his death "out of town" optical, as Christ was crucified outside of Jerusalem. In the life of the elder, Ambrose two blessed predicted that there would be an old man Joseph. So it came out - in the cancer then the relics of the PRSP were then. The elder of Joseph, about which no one knew about the time. But everything was satisfied, and thanks to this "error" in 1998, the relics of seven optuclei elders were acquired, although it was not planned. So the elders themselves wished themselves, Rezind Cathedral to their glorification. It is all separate on Earth, and in the kingdom of heaven - the unity of the saints. Here are the signs of this unity - upon arrival in the monastery about. Vasily lived in Hibarke prep. Ambrose, but directly to the Smerta of Joseph. And later, on the Cathedral of the Optina Starts, healing was healing on the grave of Novomartica, as it would be a member of his participation in the festival of the Optina Saints.

Monastic diary about. Vasily was cut into records: "The Holy Spirit we know God. This is a new, unknown body, given to us by the Lord to know His love and his goodness. This is some kind of new eye, a new ear for the vision of unprecedented and to hear the unheard of. It's like if you were given wings and said: Now you can fly throughout the universe. Holy Spirit is the wings of the soul.

EUCHARIST

U o Vasily was customary to marry a diary, which author is taken by one or another quote. But one extract is given without reference to the author and is perceived as a personal text:

"I pray for you, you will not be sure to hold me to hold me, leave me to blow to the life of the beast, I imžs God to achieve the Empty. Wheat of God Seven, the teeth of the animals and Somalo, I will, I can be pure bread to God.

This excerpt from the letter of the Sacred Martyr Ignatius The Godron was then his posthumous story, disclosing the meaning of events for Easter 1993. But to tell this story, it is necessary to return to those times again when about. Vasily was still inkom and willingly misunderstood the night duty on the watch. It is easier to say, sat at night in the watchdog booth and read, and he was insatiable reader. Next to him, in the same booth, another insatiable reader was sitting - St. Petersburg, Eugene S. Divna, the secrets of God of God, and in the testimony we will tell the story of the appearance of the frank in the optical desert. Young people from Hippie, who arrived at Optica, awarded Zhenya with two nicknames - "Lenin" and "Prosecutor". "Lenin", because, to their amazement, he read all Lenin. Truth, he considered at that time, hidden in a certain genuine, undistorted by Marxism-Leninism, and the truth should be sought. By the way, the seeker of truth he was meticulous, and if for. So the search was required to study the Greek language, then his wife was not in labor: he preferred to read the originals.

Well, and when he studied Lenin, he became the "prosecutor" that the institute quit to Marxism-Leninism and gathered to flee to America. He could not live in that country, where Ilyich smiled at all the walls and fences. The challenge from America was delayed. And one friend advised him to sit down before receiving a visa in Optina: fed, they will sing - what else do you need? But in Optina there was a library, and the truth seeker was stuck. In God, Zhenya was not yet believed, but with the father of Vasily they had an amazing world. They sat side by side in the watchdog, reading each of her. "No, you listen to what he writes!" - I exclaimed sometimes about. Vasily and, withdrawing from the book, retell the thoughts of the Holy Fathers. Orthodoxy was alien to his wife at that time, but he listened to his interest, in his own way admiring the discipline of honed thought. In short, two insatiable readers lived in fraternal, and no attempts by the appeal of Zhenya in Orthodoxy about. Vasily did not take. We undertake, but wasted, for Zhenya only snatched: "What, Miklukho-Maklai, found Papuas?" Position about. Vasily seemed incomprehensible. And the position, meanwhile, was this: "Who is looking for the truth, he will find God." And Zhenya was looking for the truth, but a kind of way. Acquaintance with Ilyich gave rise to such a squeamishness to all domestic, which he read only Western. He studied Catholicism, Protestantism, and then switched to the Hergy, convicted seven universal cathedrals. With his unique memory and the habit of reading in days, he soon became among the optrugs recognized as a specialist in the hexam. And when someone came to Optio too confused, he was told: "Go to the" prosecutor ", he will state everything about your" Filiar Diver "- from Noah to the present day." Where and when the soul of Zhenya shocked shocked: "My Lord and my God!" - This is his mystery. But the appeal of the fiction was so fiery that she took the character of a natural disaster at first - he was ready to die for Orthodoxy and heresy fell with such jealousness, which was already under the inaccurate consumption of words. "Listen," the hearts told him in the hearts, "you are only about. Vasily can withstand! " It's true. Orthodoxy about. Vasily was so organic that the hedgehogs exhausted by the soul of Zhenya gratefully rested next to him.

Remember that about. Vasily gained a huge stack of books for himself in the library, and then, sighing, postponed that not the main thing. "U o. Vasily was such a feature as economy, "one icon painter told," and he complied with everything that slowed down to the goal. " And yet, he brought the pile of books from the library to the Library of the Book, again laying out something aside, or asked Zhenya: "Looking, eh? Wisdom something. Speak then. " And Zhenya, reading, retell. There were no everyday conversations between them. Father Vasily dotted Brotherhood, but rejected a panibrate, noticing once that the panibrate is dedicated to the love of neighbor. We sometimes sounded in the panibrate and, "saving" our friend's wife, the older was complained about him: "Batyushka, Zhenya for three years in an optical desert, and not communionable." "" Nothing, "said the old man," the seminary answered, and There will often be frequent. " When the wife passed this conversation, he choked from amazement: he was in the seminary? Funny. Severished Zhenya only on the day of arrival in Optina. I saw in the temple that everyone goes to the cup, and also in childish, without confession approached. And then he was preparing for the commander for three years, confessed and did not bother to approach the bowl, without understanding something the main thing that was so craving to understand. "Zhenya, this is prideful to you," we denounced a friend. And about. Vasily did not obey anyone.

Ierodiakon Rafail remembers: "Father Vasily at one time drove excursions on optical. And when my still unbelieving Rodan arrived to visit me, I ran to him: "Patty, cut out. Such unbelievers arrived! Maybe you will turn them with your word. " But about. Vasily refused to turn, saying with humility, what, they say, in the power of human? This is the Lord everything can, but we are still unknown, how and through whom he will accomplish the appeal. "

In short, we paid, and about. Vasily recorded in those days in the diary: "God manages the fate of the world and fate every person. Life experiences will not slow down to confirm this teaching of the Gospel. It is necessary to revere in front of the fate of God in all the faces of both private and public, both in civil and in moral and spiritual. Why is our spirit indignant against fate and fellowship of God? Because we did not honor God, like God. " And after the years, they appeared to those secret of God's house building, when a man was driving in America, he was turned into optical and, already being a third-class student of the St. Petersburg seminary, he chose for his first sermon in the temple the topic of optucleus new martyrs, devoting it mainly about. Vasily. His first sermon, the Seminarist Eugene wrote painfully for a long time, but the sermon was not obtained. He listed the quality about. Vasily - formed, hardworking, smarmer, but it was a portrait of a good man in which there was no main thing - the Spirit about. Vasily. Then he came to the holidays in the Optio desert and prayed every day on the grave about. Vasily, calling for help. And for some reason, he was remembered to the grave of the new year, how he was preparing for the communion for three years and did not dare to proceed to the bowl until he collapsed in tears to his knees in a shock from the sacrificial God of God. Zhenya stood for a long time at the grave cross about. Vasily, begging him like a living, say about the main thing in his life. And suddenly stumbled in the temples: "East's wheat, the teeth of the anima and Somalo, I will be sick and pure the bread to God wearing." Zhenya never read the diary about. Vasily, but returned from the grave said: "Wheat of God," this is about. Basil. So he lived and so died. " And then he spoke his first sermon in the crucial temple, telling about the last Easter Eucharist when about. Vasily Tryyshesya stood at the altar before the striking scope and all slowed to accomplish the proscride, saying: "It is so hard that I'll look like." He told about the bright and one-piece life of Hieromonach Vasily, where everything merged together: "Plee bread", a little worker on Easter, death for Christ and the very beginning of the monastic life, filled with sacrificial love for God: "Wheat of God, Es ..."

He still lived this preaching for a long time, collecting materials about new martyrs and telling later in optical: "Martyrdom is the Eucharist. Here, look, the pretext of Elizavetu Fedorovna was thrown into the mine, fragmented bones. What a martyrdom! And suddenly her singing is heard from the mine: "Izhi Cherubi, secretly forming ..." And could sing: "Virgin, Delo, Rejoice." Many beautiful can be felt. But Elizabeth Fedorovna knew the service and sang, dying: "I'm also cherub ...", because it is the removal of holy gifts. In the kingdom of God, there is neither male, no female, and martyrs, as priests, hold the cross in her hand. Dying, Elizabeth Fedorovna was already outside the body and, like a priest, participated in the Eucharist, bringing himself already. "

Eucharist translated from Greek - thanksgiving. "The mercy of God is given in vain, but we must bring the Lord all that we have," wrote about. Vasily in the first year of monastic life. But the farther, the more he realized that there was nothing to bring, and the scarce Love was terrestrial before the love of the Crucifier of Christ. Later he wrote in the diary: "To whom from earthly verb, Lord, Yako regretted your soul to death? Come yes, the podless will observe this? Does the nature of the Sieu of the Sieu? But our hearts expanded, Lord, we are breeding in the sorrow of your crosses and the resurrection. " There is nothing to pay the Lord for all his great blessings, because it is all given. Nevertheless, there is this higher form of thanksgiving - martyr's sacrificial love. For Easter 1993, three Optina new homewomen brought themselves to the Thanksgiving victim. All the three were bored in pure Thursday, they were accustomed to the most ending and took death for Christ, working the Lord on obedience. And the Lord gave a sign that he took the sacrifice of his novices, Javil in the hour of their death in the sky. The witnesses of the sign were three - Muscovite Evgenia Province, the pilgrim from Kazan Yuri and Moskvich Julius, now the obedient of the monastery in the Vladimir diocese. They did not know anything about the murder, having left Optica immediately after the Night Easter Service and now stood at a stop in Kozelsk, waiting for a six-hour bust to Moscow. The flight, as it turned out later, was canceled. And they listened to Easter ringing, looking towards the monastery. Suddenly the ringing broke off, and in the sky above the optical splashed blood. None of them think about blood, looking in amazement on the bloody-red glow in the sky. They looked at the clock - it was the time of murder. Shed on the ground the blood of new martyrs and, splashing, reached the sky. Oddly enough, but only three years later learned about this sign, for the eyewitness's memory eclipsed then another shock. So far, in anticipation of the next flight, they went to deal with the cottage, the police and troops were raised. I suspected anything, the pilgrims again stood at the bus stop, when "funnels" drove up to them, and two vehicles were professionally severely lit by Julia's hands, pushing it into the car. "For what? What happened?" - shouted in tears Eugene. But frowning people with the automata themselves did not know what happened, having received the order by the radio order to catch the killer according to the signs: the growth of such something, a beard. And the main sign is the Orthodox pilgrim from optical.

About Waravel

All day for Easter went arrests. They took the forty man, suspecting in the main monastery, and the press was already risen to prove that the criminal is an Orthodox man. Acted, it seems like a pre-harvested scenario. In Kozelsk itself, they still did not know anything about the murderer and the police only began to investigate the case, and the press had already reported its versions about him. One radio station has fun to understand that Orthodox, de, so they came up for Easter, which cut each other. And in "Izvestia" specified: "However, there is a duty officer for male monasteries version that the murder is committed on the soil of homosexuality." Oh, how was the right about. Vasily, when called in the shelf canon: "I will appear, Mati, in a shame and death!" It was all immediately - a disgrace and death. Yes, forgive us the Bogidive reader for being involved in the bad. But the student is not higher than the teacher, and the Lord of our Jesus Christ also blamed: "He corrupts our people" (LC 23, 2). "The wicked people competed in the lowland and slander," the saint John Chrysostouist wrote on this occasion, "no matter how fear of misfortune." And now there was the same contest in the lowest possibleness.

From the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets": "Police managed to catch a killer. They were homeless. Previously, he worked as a fireman in the monastery boiler room. In January of this year, he was kicked out of the monastery for a non-dynamic drunkenness. Recently, he again tried to get a job, but received a refusal. His revenge for it was the murder. " Everything in this note is a lie and slander on an innocent man who did not use wine at all. But someone, it can be seen, well studied the character of Alesh (the name conditional is ed.), I choose it to the role of the victim. Crashing from childhood and hacked nine years in a psychiatric hospital, he was so defenseless that he didn't even receive his own retirement - she took her, sucking, distant relatives. Once he appeared in the monastery beaten and so exhausted that everyone rushed to feed him. And Alyosha was glad that he lives in optical and could go to the temple and the forest on the mushrooms. He tried very hard on his obedience in a stoker, although he was weak. And in the monastery, everyone thought how to help Alyoshe and how to arrange his life if you don't need these defenseless people in the world? Just before Easter Alyosha began to learn to cut the kyot and claimed from a cutter or a burst for thread. Someone gave him a big kitchen knife, and Alyosha showed it to everyone, rejoicing: "The knife got it." It was the sinsel of Aleshi killer stole from the hotel and, putting Finnka in his pocket, threw on the crime scene. Alyosha was immediately arrested, and the evidence lay one to one: a psychiatric diagnosis, its chinel and knife.

Speaks Pelagia Kravtsova:"I was horrified when he was arrested. Well, who will believe that he is a killer! Yes, he does not hurt flies and every kitten regretted? "Batyushka, I say," it will be placed if you talk about the knife. What to say when they call? " - "Only the truth". But in the Kozel police examined Alya and, having seen his muscles of the distroof, let go, waving his hand: "Well, who will kill? I would not blow up the wind. " The refutation in the press, naturally, was not. When Nikolai Averin was arrested after Easter six days after Easter, the scenario about the "crazy killer" joined the new development stage. The press made a friendly Hero-Afghan hero and announced his "victim of totalitarianism." The forensic examination was not yet, but the press had already made its diagnosis: "The psyche of a young man could not stand the tests of war in which he was abandoned by politicians" (the newspaper "Banner"). "Furious ridiculous soul of a young strong guy left without moral support, rushing" ("Komsomolskaya Pravda"). You can bring more quotes. And you can remember otherwise - as in the gospel times, these people shouted: "Let us go to Zararava, Zaravva was planted in the dungeon for the indignation and murder." (LC. 23,18-19). "What a wise book is the Bible," Jeroons said P.- It's all about us. " So we, twenty centuries later, was given to hear a friendly cry in defense of the criminal: "Vararava also be a robber." The atheistic spirit of the century, of course, is not news. And since the legend of the Hero-Afghan joined since the resource, then we will give three references:

1. We call for the army in 18 years. The certificate is given specifically for the Moscow Komsomolets, who enlisted Averin to the special forces, where he never served, and said: "The suspect in 1989 returned from Afghanistan, where he served in special purpose troops." And it became, Averin, born in 1961, returned from the army for 28 years and with fresh mental injury.

2. Nikolay Averin was in Afghanistan on the second year of service from August 1, 1980, demobilized in 1981 without a single scratch. In combat actions did not participate. Meanwhile, experts unanimously argue that in Optisa, a professional killer acted. Senior investigator for especially important cases, Major Militia A. Vasilyev gave such a comment to the Pravda correspondent: "The knife stumps are filled with extraordinary professionalism ... Boots are applied to places that in Afghanistan were protected by a body armor, and if we consider that our assault battalions are practically not It was necessary to use the bayonet knife, it turns out that learn how to learn the "art" - and this, believe me, the hard science was practically no place. " Who was preparing a professional killer?

3. After demobilization in 1981, there was a peace decade when he, after graduating from Kaluzhskiy cult spots, worked in the House of Culture of Volkonsk. At the same years, he graduated from the courses of the film mechanics and the courses of the chauffeurs. Everyone who received the right knows that this requires a psychiatrist certificate certificate certificate. Such a certificate Averin was given, and before the murder day he traveled on a personal car.

In 1991, against the thirty-year-old Nikolai Averin, a criminal case was initiated under articles 15 and 117. For rape of a 56-year-old woman for rape. The term of the 117th give a large, and there was an Afghan mental injury. The case was closed under an article about insaneness. And after six months of compulsory treatment in the psychiatric hospital, Nikolai Averin was discharged with a rare diagnosis - the disability of the Third Group. With serious psyche disorders, psychiatrists are approved, this group does not give. The case of the murder of the Optina brothers was closed, as you know, according to the same article about insaneness. The trial, as usual in such cases, was not interrogated by many important witnesses, and the investigative experiment was not conducted. Meanwhile, the socio-church commission who conducted an independent investigation published then in the Russian Bulletin newspaper, established: "The commission has evidence that at least three people participated in the murder, who saw witnesses." But the requirements of the Orthodox community about the investigation of the case and the implementation of independent psychiatric examination were not heard. But how many people are unparalleled, the court of God is so demanded. And when the places of local residents began to collect in optical, it turned out that among those who destroyed the monastery in the years of persecution, there is not a single person who would not finish then truly scary. Someday, these stories may be published, but still give one of them.

Grandma's story Dorofei from the village of Novo Cossack, confirmed by her daughter Tatiana: "Once I went with a nurse and daughter Tanya to the hospital. And the heat, you want to drink. And the nurse says: "Let's go to this house, I have friends here." We went. And how I sat down with the fear of the shop, I'm afraid to get up: on the furnace three girls are crazy - bombing, terrible and tweaks themselves. I did not squeeze and ask the hostess: "Yes, what to attack you with your daughters?" "Oh," says, deaf, dumb and stupid. All doctors went around, and sense? Medicine, explain is powerless. One turning paint old man returned from the camps and healed many. And I knew and flee to him. He climbed on the threshold and still did not give out words, and he immediately said about her husband - he destroyed the bell tower in the optical desert and dumped down the bell. "Your husband," says, "the whole world is deaf and dumb, and you want your children to speak and heard."

film: And between heaven and earth

Life of martyrs: Optina desert

The joyful Easter ringing unexpectedly moved to Nabath. This is a senior ringer by Trofim, pierced by a ritual knife, "Rezind of the dead," pulled up on the ropes and hit the Nabat, swaying the bells is already dead body. In a moment, Ink Ferapont fell silently before, having received a terrible blow to the back.

Father Vasily hurried to the liturgy into the skit, when the killer inflicted a mortal wound to him, cut all the internal organs. An unexpected evidence of the girl with his pure eyes saw that the shadow of a black terrible beast was rejected from the fallen Hieromonach in the direction of the fence ... in the diary about. Vasily found a record from the letter Schshmch. Ignatius the gogonystysca: "I pray you and you will not template me to hold me, leave me to blow to the life of the beast, Iimo God reached the Journal" ...

But the time of early liturgy on the day of the Light Christ of the Resurrection on April 18, 1993, he did not even run into the Skit Church, and no matter how hard the obey of E., stunning all the terrible news: "Brothers killed!" Soon, all Orthodox Russia learned: after the Night Easter Service, the Satanist's hand with a 60-centimeter knife with engraving "666" interrupted the life of the three Optina inhabitants: Ieromonach Vasily (Roslakov), Inok Trofim (Tatatnikova) and Inok Ferapont (Pushkareva). It seemed that they did not differ from other brothers of the monastery. However, the inner life of those who leave the world and devotes themselves to only a single Lord and the Lord to our Jesus Christ, - Mystery, unknown even close. And therefore it is not by chance that it was their Lord who chose a hazard of a martyr's crown - "the largest happiness in this earthly life" (SVT. John Zlatoust).

What were they? Silent prayer of Inok Ferapont. All loving, trouble-free, master for all the hands of Inok Trofim, who knew him called gentle trophyushushka. Concentrated, self-smiled by Ieromona Vasily.

Different ways they came to God, but everyone had a moment, when the soul suddenly knew the truth about what the future ink Trofim, crowded with the joy of revelation, once exclaimed: "Found!"

The inconspicuous Siberian Vladimir Pushkarev was closed by a sublyer and became ink feraphant on the day of the memory of the forty Sevastia martyrs, when Father Vasily spoke to sermons: "The blood of martyrs and today is poured for our sins. Demons can not see the blood of martyrs, for she shines brighter the sun of the stars, falling them. Now the martyrs help us, and on the terrible court will be denounced us, for until the state of the century, the law of the blood is to the action: the blood of blood and the spirit of breath "...

In Sook Ferapont had such a thirst for prayer that she was not satisfied with even long monastic services. One nun told her, when she was pilgrim, saw once standing on his knees, under wet snow about. Ferapont. In half an hour, looking out the window, she found the same picture, noting that the ink mernically moves the rosary. Incredibly, but after two hours she again saw him, fallen prayer-nic, already sipped by snow.

In the last days of the Great Post, before dying, this silence can not go to bed at all. Praying at night. He took the secret of his tense prayer life to eternity, but we remembered his words: "Yes, our sins can only be washed in blood."

"Trofim was spiritual Ilya Muromets and so in the hectares generously poured on all his love that everyone considered him with his friend," he recalled in the ink trophim one body. "He had every brother, assistant, relatives," said Igumen Vladimir responded about him. "Trofim was a true monk - a secret, inner, and the external pyssia and the phariseism in him and the shadows were not ... He loved God and all people! .. There were no bad for him on Earth," the other pilgrim said.

And no one in his life knew that he was a secret ascetic, but ascetic joyful and his life is the celebration of the Spirit over the flesh when, according to St. Right. John Kronstadtsky, "The soul wears your body."

Father Vasily, in the world Igor Roslyakov, to Optina, was a well-known athlete-Wateroscolist. The Lord endowed him with many talents. Preserved diaries, poems give a person surprisingly capable of word in it. His last diary cut into records: "The Holy Spirit we know God. This is a new, unknown body, given to us by the Lord for the knowledge of his love and his goodness ... It's like if you were given the wings and Sk Hallows: and now you can fly through the universe. The Holy Spirit is the wings of the soul. " Is it possible to write like this without disintegrated?

"His life was such a rapid climbing to God - recalls the icon painter P., - what a chill lived in the soul: what if there is a breaking on the steepness?". Having learned about the murder of about. Vasily this icon painter shock exclaimed: "Father, you have reached. You won your father! "

Three Optins won ...

According to the prayers of the holy elders, the Optina blessing abode after five years after her return of the Orthodox Church, the novels of Novomartovkov, his blood worn not only their sins. Correctly understanding what happened, one of the fathers, who served in the skete at the time when I was about the murder, he said with tears in his eyes: "Glory to you, Lord, that I will visit Optio my mercy."

Orthodox people immediately began to read those killed in the holy night. On their graves (in the south-eastern part of the monastery) there are always many colors, candles are lit; There are many cases of healing with prayer handling. Now the chapel is erected over their graves.

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

In 1990, long before the murder in Optina, I lived a month near Kozel and a group of young people came to me - Friends of Averin (he lived in the district center Volkonskoye, not far from Kozelsk). They came to me how to the author of the article "Do not participate in the affairs of darkness", because we saw something similar in his behavior described. They said that Averin has some strange sense of justice, a little similar to the Komsomolskaya "struggle for the truth", and at the same time he breaks on very cruel actions. On the one hand, he was loved, on the other - they were afraid. He could afford anything. I was presented to me as an amateur mysticism, who was read something, went to the church, I learned something, I experienced, strained, I pulled out some kind of spiritual experience. For this experience, he grabbed as a truth - and rushed ...

During the investigation, I read his diaries, made by spiritual poems - completely satanic, and very aestte. They took place as the verses of Nikolai Averin. Even before talking to him, I, in general, represented that this is for a person. With it, it did not knit such disgustingly sophisticated aestheticism. It could write some completely disintegrating person of an extremely aesthetic sense. Then, when I met with Averin, asked: "And what is this poems? Do you really wrote them?" It turned out, on the investigation they simply did not figure it out - of course, he again rewrite them. When I saw these poems and other records, I realized that this man was not the fact that Messans, but the murder had happened in the same scheme, and then Ivan Karamazov should be here, there should be a person who gave this impulse. It would be important to find someone who sent it. Averin did not say on the investigation, where he took the books - complained about his headache, left the answer.

Averin served in Afghanistan - very long, at the urgent service, but he was not in the special forces and in serious battles, most likely, did not participate, at least, never mentioned about it, so the skill is sophisticated to kill people there he could not buy . Returning from Afghanistan, he took up a bad amateur mysticism, which immediately led him to a charming and very terrible state. He began to attend the church, but at the same time did not believe the priests, did not study the holy fathers. I decided that I myself would figure it out. He found himself in the temple, but outside the church. And began to accumulate all his experiences, which only can be. Without clearing his sins with repentance, Averin simply got into the most banal and, in general, a duty of the spiritual situation when he began to believe every his thought. And since the thoughts were proud and passionate, he initially imagined himself powerful and high, and then some mystical help began to come. In such a state, he went to the temple, he fastened himself, and soon he began to be the voices that were dictated to how to do. These voices, more precisely, the voice that gradually raised the power over him, called God.

Averin came to Optio desert and turned to two priests. They said that these are demons - do not talk to them, do not communicate. He replied: "What are these demons when they give me such good advice?" No longer came to Optio. He was enough. Maybe here is partly and our fault that they could not pay due attention to a person: just sit down, talk in more detail. Restricted to simple statement, in general, correct, but for this man is neurubimatory.

These voices are really Averin sometimes helped, saved from trouble. And he more and more rose in his opinion about himself. In such a situation there is no doubt and mental disorder, and purely spiritual - the idleness. One mental disorder will not explain such, for example, the case when he rides on the road by car, suddenly the voice says: "Strongly stop, brakes!". He picks up on the brakes, suddenly crashes the car, which, if he drove a little away, would hit the forehead ...

The demon, who called himself by God, became very strongly displaced and tormented Averin. All the time inspired by the obsessive thoughts, from which he could not free himself from night. The demon did not give him to relax, then began to scold in every way and humiliate, forced something to do. The day and night of a person in his head sounded a voice that just gotten him. But at the beginning, Averin, he voluntarily obeyed, which happens at all falls: we, yielding to the thoughtless, plow some passion, and then it gradually masters us, and we already do not belong to yourself, we are no longer happy that this passion was obeyed.

I asked Averin, whether he was engaged in causing spirits - he himself does not remember that it did. But after all, magic can be engaged without a spiritual plate - you just need to want to get a connection with some kind of spiritual essence. He can call him anything, at least God, and it will be a demon - this is a relay, connection. Communication will be established - and now the person has a religion appeared, the very object of his religion appeared: this is theity that he calls God, and in fact - the demon. And the impact begins, which increases, until a person is obsessed with this demon.

The Spirit, who tortured Averin, aims him to murder. Averin understood it, but he could no longer be released from him - he was so subordinate to him. To go to the church and saying all the priest he did not want, and therefore, as a resolute man, began to fight on his own. I consulted with someone, he began to worship Satan as the enemy of God, because the creature that tormented him, called himself God. He began to serve Satan, write these the most poems - in general, a terrible hula began to all holy. And then the moment came when the Spirit that Verin owned, demanded that what happened.

Two years before the murder, too, for Easter, Averin had an attempt to rape. I did not ask whether this very much made him commit such blasphemy or not, but it was clear that the focus of a person is completely unequivocal - Satanism.

There was an unexplained question, whether people were still whether another group was like to accept Averin to all this. From my point of view, in the investigation of this particular case, this question is very important. Averin did not say that there were some people who were directed, but he may not even know about them. He told, for example, as a result, that in Kozelsk some psychics were injected into a hypnotic state. He wanted to cure them from this very demon, from voice. Such a person - and mentally ill, and with obvious signs of the launcher - very easily given for every influence and manipulation.

The investigator who led Averin, asked me to meet the criminal. I first talked with him with an eye on the eyes and still did not understand the end, was someone else with him or not, whether someone had his hand. The fact that they managed the demon, for me there is no doubt. But was there any earthly, human structure? In the end, it does not matter. Averin as a phenomenon is the materialization of that spiritual nightmare, which is now a huge number of people in today's Russia: the flow of films that spiritually decompose people, the flow of occult experiments - precisely experiments, not exercises, but real experiments. All this is a hot desire, the terrible and passionate desire for people to fit into the spiritual world, master them and, so to speak, the powerful there - here it manifested itself in this very Averin, went, inspired and frozo, but also scary, of course. For this is a terrible signal, because the society is ready for this and society all this wants, something like this.

Averin, of course, was scary when, having committed the murder, he realized that he was again deceived by this demon, that the voice continues to torment him all the time, mock. This man got completely completely in Satan's paws, and the enemy makes everything that he wants, mocks, as he wants. He had already tried twice to commit suicide, climbed his belly. And now he did the same in the zone - the demon leads to suicide, and he cannot do anything with him. When we talked with him, he asked everything: I can drink holy water, or to wear a cross, or something else, if only this voice was not? And it took four hours to just convince him that I was not a cross or holy water - not to help him, if only he himself would not cut off all the conversation, every conversation, every conversation with this thoughtless, with this spirit, which to him Suitable. He asked me to help him. But I can not count, and I can not carry Averin somewhere on the calculation. With great difficulty, I managed to convince Averin that the only thing that could now bring to him relief is to completely stop communicating with the coming thoughts, because it's a bridge with a demon: you need to cut off the thoughts. He understood it and grabbed, as for the last straw. After some time, he asked the investigator to be allowed to confess.

And when we met with him again, he said: "Yes, I now completely comprehend it. This voice continues to mock me even more terrible, but it's easier for me when I just cut off. And now it comes."

When Averin asked about confession, I was just on the courtyard of the Pskovo-Pechersk Monastery at the Holy Patriarch and took the blessing from him how to confess. I did not know whether it is possible for such a crime so right to immediately say: "Goodbye and allowing." And His Holiness said: "Confession, but do not read the permissive prayer. He stayed alive, and let him bring the fruit of repentance. Maybe after many years the church will allow him to commit about the Holy Tyne. When I went to the confessor about. John (peasantry) and told him: "Here, the father, I happened to confess the Averin," he asked: "I did not read the permissive prayer?" - "Not". - "That's right, in no case do not read yet."

I dismissed Averin to the Novodevichy Monastery, where he confessed. Help him God. He wrote a letter of optical brethren, where she asks for forgiveness. He writes about what he feels that they forgave him, killed fathers. Although, when such things happen on the back, they can easily go to their opposite. God forbid every man repentance, and him too. Of course, the killed Optina fathers pray primarily for him, for killing. But how does the Lord take him and how will his fate work?

Optina New Martyrs - 20 years later

I wrote this material 20 years ago for the newspaper "Today". Published photos were given to me in the optical desert, where I was five days after the murder of the Inok. Please take into account that the article is written for the secular edition.

Roman Verchilla

The church requires protection against the Messengers of Satan

The murder of three monks, committed on the Orthodox Easter day in the Holy Division of the Optio Desert, according to the leadership of the monastery, should change the relationship between the church and the state authorities. In 1988, when, with active support, Mikhail Gorbachev began to restore the optical deserts, it seemed that high patronage would forever retain a serene structure of monastic life. Five years later, these hopes later were buried by the knife, they were buried together with the murdered - by Ieromona Vasily (Roslakov), Monks Trofim (Tatarinov) and Ferapont (Pushkarev).

The killer is Nikolai Averin, a native of the village Volkonskoye, located ten kilometers from the optical desert, - did a dizzying path from God to the Devil. He told the investigator that "came to God" during military service in Afghanistan. The challenge of the Most High for the first time threw in 1991, having raped a woman from "religious" considerations. The unusualness of the motive saved the criminal from prison: he was separated by a special bolt, which he had safely left six months with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia".

Having done this new, more terrible crime, Averin claims on the investigation that he is associated with "spiritual bonds" with Satan. His killer will go to fulfill his will, armed with a Finnish knife, a crop with three cabinet cartridges and a double-edged sword of its own manufacture. At each of the murder tools, Satan 666 was engraved - the number that the antichrist symbolizes in the New Testament. The criminal took advantage of only a sword. Its specially curved 60-centimeter blade, suspended from behind to the liver area, rushed insides and went out of her throat.

Throwing a sinel and sword from the monastery wall, Averin disappeared from the crime scene. After weeks wanderings in the Kaluga and Tula regions, he returned to Kozelsk, which is three kilometers from the monastery, where April 24 was arrested. Averin gave extensive testimony, but repentance did not express. From the interrogation materials it follows that the criminal twice came to the monastery to kill any of the chickens. On the night of April 13, he penetrated the fraternal corps, but changed his mind, since it seemed to him "dishonest to kill unarmed monks." On April 15, the killer passed into the premises, where the children of pilgrims slept, and also did not lead her plan in performance ... On the day of Easter, Averin was present at worship and procession, intending to shoot a wagon on the crowd. However, the threat of ambulance forced him to abandon this thought. At 7 am on April 1, after Easter servers, the Wholesalers of the monks Trofim and Ferapont made Blagovest. According to Averin, it was the bell ringing that forced him to get out of the shelter and put the monks to blows in the back.

The priests and the prosecutor's office disagree in their interpretation of what happened. According to the chief of investigative management of the Kaluga Regional Prosecutor's Office, Vladimir Yershov, "crimes were actually not there," since the criminal apparently acted in a state of breath. He denies the existence of "religious background in the Optina business." Kozel police also refers to the murder to the category of "household".

Assistant Governor of Optio Desert Hegumen Melchizedek (Artyukhin) refuses to recognize by madness "Open Service Satan. Always earth people obsessed with demons, and this is their free choice. " He speaks with his version of what happened. In his opinion, Averin was a member of the Satanist sect, which commissioned the former "Afghan" execution of a ritual murder. "There are evidence that there are four more suspicious people on the territory of Easter on the territory of the monastery," says the Father of the ISLCHISEK. - They watched the murder. One of them was seen over the body of Hieromonach Vasily. Pilgrims heard his words: "I still get them out of them."

The killer fully deserved the death penalty, the monks are optimal, although they do not intend to speak with this requirement openly. "This murder of the Satanist forces wanted to demonstrate their power and impunity," said Filaret's father. The criminal himself asks to judge him as a completely normal person.

The prosecutor's office does not fully reject the version of Averin's belonging to the secret sect. The consequence was able to find out that shortly before the murder, Averin went to Moscow and Kiev in search of like-minded people in "War with God".

The monks are optical accused the authorities in the fact that they "indulge the spread of the Satanist and Okkult Literature, do not take advantage of the Orthodox Church," traditionally the most influential in Russia. "It is necessary to prohibit the activities of the Satanist sects in Russia," says Hegumen Melchizedek. Relations between the church and the state regulates the Law of the RSFSR on freedom of conscience, adopted in 1990, he does not suit the leadership of the ROC, since the state is deprived of the right to control the activities of religious associations and is obliged to register any organizations. Patriarch Alexy and the church public offer the Supreme

The Council of the Russian Federation make changes to the law on freedom of conscience. The bodies of the Ministry of Justice support the proposals of the ROC, which will give officials the opportunity to patronically registered organizations, as well as suspend registration of new associations.

The Orthodox Church is ready to come from part of its independence to limit the activities of the Antarodesign Front. "Following the murder of three optical monks, you can expect a large-scale terror against higher hierarchs," says Hegumen Melchizedek. Destroyed in the 1930s monastic walls restored. They can come in handy churches precipitated by enemies of faith.