This book introduces the reader to the life and spiritual path of Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov), one of the three inhabitants of Optina Pustyn who were killed on Easter morning on April 18, 1993. The biography compiled by monk Lazar (Afanasyev) is combined with the rich creative heritage of Father Vasily - diaries, letters, sermons, poems, hymnography. From these fragments, like a mosaic, the image of a saint of our time is formed, both in life and in death, following Christ.