This Legend is about the soul’s desire for God and what hinders and what helps along this Path. The heroes of this story are not fictional characters. But the Legend describes the true life story of the spiritual Ascetics who achieved Divinity - Rada and Alexey. This is also a story of love, spiritual transformation and self-sacrifice for the good of other people. The methods of spiritual work outlined, representing the tradition of hesychasm, can be successfully used in our time.