Before you is a book based on lectures given at different times by Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev - a famous preacher, missionary, theologian, publicist - in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, in other monasteries and parish churches. It talks about the value of earthly life, about death, and highlights the biblical and patristic justification for the doctrine of ordeals - a kind of exam that the human soul undergoes after death. A detailed story about each of the twenty ordeals ends with a story about what awaits the soul of each of us subsequently: about a private judgment, about the afterlife fate of a person, about the resurrection of the dead and about the last Judgment. For a wide range of readers.