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Red Easter. About the Three Optina New Martyrs Killed on Easter 1993

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Writes the author of the book "Red Easter" Nina Pavlova: "I will begin with a confession, shameful for the author: I have long resisted the blessing of the elders, refusing to write a book about the Optina New Martyrs for the only reason - it is above my measure, above me. Disobedience is a sin, and the elder predicted: "You'll lie down for six months, and then you'll want to write." So the Lord gave me a penance for disobedience - I was sick for a long time and could not heal until I begged for help to the Optina New Martyrs, finally deciding to write. "Write as you have written before," Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov) blessed me for my work, thus suggesting the genre of this book: not a hagiography - I have never written them, but a chronicle of events, and the chronicle was formed as follows - in 1988 the Lord led me as a pilgrim to Optina Desert, and since then I have lived here, having become an eyewitness of those events, about which I tried to tell on the basis of my diaries of those years. Such an Optina chronicle was written a century ago by the Orthodox writer Sergei Nilus, and this genre is quite traditional.
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