We bring to the reader's attention N.A. Motovilov's notes about his conversation with St. Seraphim of Sarov. Recently they have become widely known and are rightly considered the most precious pearl of the Orthodox teaching on salvation. These notes were found by S. A. Nilus in 1903, after the death of Motovilov, and were given to him by the widow of the deceased Elena Ivanovna.N. A. Motovilov, a wealthy landowner, healed by Saint Seraphim from an incurable leg disease, spent his entire life near the great elder. To this “servant of Seraphim,” as he called himself, we owe much information about the life of the saint, and he turned out to be the only witness to the great triumph of Orthodoxy, revealed to the Monk Seraphim in 1831 in the dense forests of Sarov and which has now become the property of the entire Church.