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If until today you have always put off regular reading Christian literature, then there were two whole reasons for this grace-filled deed. Firstly, March 14th— Orthodox book day. The holiday is very young, introduced 4 years ago. But reading for a Christian is an important part of spiritual work. And now the other day begins, a great time for spiritual exploits!

The most important book for a Christian should undoubtedly be the Holy Scriptures. In addition, these are patristic works, the lives of saints. In addition, in recent times on the book market a lot of different books of Orthodox authors appeared. And, of course, you need to remember that not all of them are equally valuable. Among these books there are those that are completely non-Orthodox in essence, there are those in which genuine Orthodox teaching mixed with occult or pseudoscientific notions. Every person has their favorite books. According to the website lib.pravmir.ru we offer you 10 most read modern books useful in spiritual work.

1. - a book by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. Published in 2011. The book aroused great interest among the reading public. So, by October 2012, the total circulation of the book amounted to one million one hundred thousand copies. As Archimandrite Tikhon himself said: “I told almost all the stories that were included in the book during sermons. All this is part of our church life.”

2. — last work Orthodox author Viktor Likhachev, who passed away in 2008. The writer did not have time to finish his book, but he hoped that everyone who reads it will recognize himself in it, feel that boundless love for Russia, for the Russian village, which the author nourished, let faith in God and the hope that that the Angels, our heavenly patrons, will never leave us...

3. " Prologue in the teachings for each day of the year "— the book was compiled in 2007 by Archpriest Viktor Guryev. "Prologue" is an ancient Russian collection of hagiographies, originating from the Byzantine chronologists, in which the lives of the saints are arranged in accordance with the days of their church memory. In addition, the "Prologue" is decorated with understandable and often entertaining passages from the ancient Patericons, parables imbued with thoughts of repentance, mercy, Christian love for one's neighbor, spiritual perfection and the salvation of the soul.

4. "Father Arseny" is a book that came out of the pen unknown author, clearly shows the reader the triumph of love over evil, life over death. Father Arseny is the image of a holy elder - a zealous man of prayer, sober, meek, who completely entrusted himself into the hands of God. The first editions spread throughout Russia and beyond its borders and made the book "Father Arseny" one of the most beloved in the Orthodox world.

5. "Soul After Death"(O. Seraphim Rose) - probably there is no such book that so clearly, accessible and understandable reveals the posthumous experience of a person and gives the concept of angelic and other world. The book contains two thousand years of experience of the holy fathers. The publication has a twofold purpose: firstly, from the point of view of the Orthodox Christian doctrine about afterlife, to give an explanation of the modern "post-mortem" experiences that have aroused such interest in some religious and scientific circles; secondly, to cite the main sources and texts containing the Orthodox teaching about the afterlife.

6. "Easter Red"(Pavlova N.A.) - it was after this book that the author became widely known. The book is already 11 years old, but it does not lose popularity. It tells about the three New Martyrs of Optina - Hieromonk Vasily and monks Ferapont and Trofim. It's three perfect different person their paths to God were special. The ascetic life is amazing, many readers note that after reading this book, they immediately want to visit Optina Pustyn.

7. "Who will hear the linnet?"(Likhachev V.V.) — a novel about the motherland and the Russian soul. He leads the reader along the roads of the Russian provinces. Main character embroiled in real adventures: he carries miraculous icon, evading bandit pursuit... And internally, one goes the way of spiritual growth: from unbelief to faith, from confusion to blessed peace, from mental blindness and deafness to seeing and hearing the miracle of God.

8. "Ways of Heaven"(Shmelev I.S.) is a novel about the fate of the skeptic-positivist engineer Viktor Alekseevich Weidenhammer and the faithful, meek and internally strong Darinka, a novice of the monastery who left the monastery to connect her life with Viktor Alekseevich. Through suffering and joy, by mysterious and incomprehensible ways for the worldly mind, these heroes are led to the Source of Life. Internal plot The book is a "spiritual battle" with passions and thoughts, temptations and attacks of dark forces.

9. "Chief of Silence"(Vsevolod Filpiev) - the book is addressed to eternal questions- love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, truth and lies. The heroes of the book solve these issues differently and sometimes unexpectedly. An action-packed, realistic narrative takes the reader into the events that take place in the winter of 2002 in Moscow and in North America. Together with the characters, the reader finds himself in St. Petersburg of the 19th century and in historical times princes Boris and Gleb. The story-parable is designed for wide circle readers, and everyone is free to interpret it in their own way.

10. "We have repentance"(abbot Nikon Vorobyov) - letters addressed to their spiritual children, laity and monastics. Father Nikon edifies, instructs, calls for repentance and patience, shows what needs to be done, what thoughts need to be kept, consoles, teaches how to treat sorrows correctly: “The Fathers have long said about our times that people will be saved only by sorrows and illnesses. Healthy and happy forget about God, oh future life: live as if they will live forever on earth and never die. And sorrows and illnesses make a person break away from earthly interests and turn to God... Save your souls with repentance, patience and humility.”

Enjoy reading!

Prayer before reading spiritual books:

Lord Jesus Christ, open my heart's eyes so that when I hear Your Word, I understand it and do Your will. Hide not Thy commandments from me, but open my eyes, that I may understand wonders from Thy law. Tell me the unknown and secret of your wisdom! I trust in You, my God, and I believe that You will enlighten my mind and meaning with the light of Your mind, and that then I will not only read what is written, but also fulfill it. Make sure that I do not read the Lives of the Saints and Your Word as a sin, but for renewal and enlightenment, and for holiness, and for the salvation of the soul, and for the inheritance of eternal life. For You, O Lord, are the enlightenment of those who lie in darkness, and from You is every good gift and every perfect gift. Amen.

Veronika VYATKINA

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Direct Russian Truth about the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

The Trench Truth of the War of 1941-1945 Guard Captain Alexander Ilyich Shumilin

O Great Liberation Patriotic War (1941-1945) a lot has been written about the Russian people. Artistic prose Although it is interesting to read about the war, we, while reading, live in virtual world the author, who either was not at the war at all, or ran into the front as a correspondent, not risking visiting the hot spots of the front line, and the lack personal experience He compensated with archival materials and artistic conjectures and reconstructions.

The memoirs of the generals are of interest to those who think in geopolitics and military strategy and battle tactics. These are intricate chess games and games of the mind of the reader of memoirs - all this does not even touch on the trench truth of the war, does not convey "smell" and the essence of war, - what the war was and is for a simple man-soldier ...

Reading such literature about the war, he constantly experiences a kind of hunger. Lacks a sense of TRUTH. And Truth is not an understanding of the mind, not a historical canvas, not geopolitics.

Truth, Russian Truth- this is peering into the essence of things, this is a feeling of "skin" and empathy, this is RUSSIAN PAIN and the justification of suffering by taking them on oneself, for the Russian TRUTH is what it is real life a human wanderer on earth, this "so that it would not be excruciatingly painful for the aimlessly lived years" is to stand before God and silently say:

“Yes, I am dirt and a robber, but Lord, here I am in front of You - the Great Man and God.
And all my life, sinning and robbing, I knew that You exist, and that You are that real Person,
who always lived in me and spoke to me from within with the voice of CONSCIENCE.

And I knew that, not to betray Yours and mine
- our Russian Conscience,
and if somewhere sinned, then do not break,
but to stand up again as a Man and give a vow not to do this again ”...

Guard Captain Alexander Shumilin is such a Russian Man, so it is exciting to read it

And there is such a Russian Man - therefore it is exciting to read it.

Yes, and a meeting with any Russian Man is interesting, it gives fresh strength to continue to live correctly, honestly and easily carry your cross ( for "my burden is light and my yoke is easy," Mt. 11:30), preserving the light and beauty Great Gift of the Russian Soul, without mixing with the darkness and swamp that surrounds us.

A Russian Man manifests his Russianness in different ways (where God has placed someone, he manifests there).
Reading what is written and lived by the Russian Man, we overcome the ego, lose our temper, absorb, empathize, plunge into the hitherto unknown world of another Russian Soul, become wider and wiser, better understand the Earth - the Great Creation of God, and merge deeper with - essence Russian Civilization.

(maybe someone does not know) - these are not churches and not institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church, this is a mysterious community and connection of all Its members into a single unearthly Sphere of Love, invisible from the outside, this Russian World in all its glory, these are beautiful Russian Souls in the imperishable beauty of the immortal Spirit...

Needless to say, in the Russian World, in the Church, there are not only Russians in the flesh, but people from all over the Earth, struck by Russian Beauty, and striving in spirit into this beautiful world, i.e. in church christian and universal! And, very often it happens that the members of the Church can clearly understand all this with their minds, and this is not required, this is not the main thing. The main thing in the Church is a mysterious connection human souls between themselves and with Christ, this is the cement of the Russian World, words cannot teach this, but to whom it is given, he knows. essence Faith hidden in Russian hearts,!

Guard Captain Alexander Shumilin, got into the trenches from the very beginning of the war - in 1941, and went through the whole war. This is a Russian Hero, he did not hide in the rear and did not tremble for his soul, but behold, he remained alive and managed to write down these most valuable memories for posterity. God kept him, averted death from him in "manual mode". For example, he prepared to rest on the boxes under the fir trees, but he was urgently sent to reconnaissance. And when I returned, I saw that a German shell had hit the boxes under the trees ...

An excellent storyteller, he had a natural talent, he could have become a writer, if his fate had turned out differently. The wonderful manuscript of Shumilin's memoirs was not published during the author's lifetime, and he did not have time to finish working on it. In particular, he wanted to supplement it with his drawings, for which Shumilin also had a talent ( this is evidenced by those five Shumilin drawings-illustrations that he made for the events of the beginning of the memories). It so often happens that a Russian person is a master of all trades.

But let's also note the disadvantages of his manuscript (and there are few of them, in my opinion, there are not many cons)

But let's also note the disadvantages of his manuscript (and there are, in my opinion, few of them):

A red thread runs through the entire manuscript persistent denunciation of the shortcomings of staff inhabitants and front-line rear soldiers. In this, he apparently saw his mission - to fill in the truth about the war with these not advertised details of the life of the front line strip at some distance from the front line (front line). In my opinion - too often and persistently. However (if I’m not mistaken, just once!) Shumilin mentioned that, of course, staff officers are needed, and without them, of course, there’s no way (yes, why talk about it, everyone understands this anyway, and there is a lot of literature on this and memoirs).

The second interfering moment is an episodic test of the author's strength in the artistic processing of unconditionally natural facts of military life, conjecturing the thoughts of 3rd persons and putting these thoughts into their inner speech. Such mental reconstructions occasionally come from the faces of his comrades, and a couple of times from other defendants. Total artificial literary images- two: a simple Siberian man-wagon driver (but not a Siberian, but a European crest in spirit) and a German wagon guard, who ended up being captured by us. Of course, the prototypes existed in reality, that's not the point. It turned out, in general, a rather cheap satire on small people who think only about saving their own skin and about its selfish interests and about other, long-known, selfishness of such selfish people. Here's an overkill...

Yes, and a completely real friend-comrade of Shumilin - the good-natured epicurean political instructor Petya Sokov (formerly a civilian accountant), with whom Shumilin met after the war, often received satirical internal monologues, giving him away with his head as a stupid, kind-hearted coward, always ready to hide in the bushes and stay away from the front lines ... It turns out that the author found a "scapegoat" (a good half-skinner) and beats him for nothing.

In addition to the constant jokes on the political instructor Petya, there were other cases where one can slightly suspect courage and exaggeration of seasoned hunting and fishing tales. It is clear that the narrators do this for the pleasure of those who listen, they support, so to speak, their cheerful spirit, so that we do not lose heart. But in military memoirs, this is not very appropriate and rather a minus than a dashing valiant prowess and plus.

Not published on this site full text memoirs of Alexander Shumilin. Instead, we invite the reader to familiarize themselves with a number of vivid stories-episodes of an experienced front-line soldier about the greatest war of the twentieth century and better feel and understand how our Russian Victory was forged, plunge into the trench truth and sympathize with our Slav brothers(this is how Russian soldiers called themselves in that war - "Slavs"), who suffered hardships, hunger, injuries and death itself; and to appreciate all the originality and strength shown by the Russian people in the war. Read the full text of military memoirs on the website made by the son of Alexander Shumilin:

War- this is bright, pouring blood on the snow,
these are full-length steps,
With open eyes- towards death.
It's an itchy hunger and cold in the trenches - under open sky"24/7"...
These are constant insults, rude swearing and threats of cowardly staff screamers ...

These are two worlds alien to each other inside the Red Army
(The current Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army of the USSR):
trench waste "consumables"
and "valuable" staff cadres - fattening political officers and "yoshi hairdressers" ...
After all, as usual,
“to whom is war, and to whom is mother dear”…

Guard captain Alexander Ilyich Shumilin (1921-1983),
a simple Russian comfrey soldier, and then a scout, hero of the Second World War 1941-1945,
real Russian Spirit human

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