Father Pavel witnessed the plunder and destruction of his native land, the flooding of the entire region. Having gone through camps and exile, he returned to the Mologa land, and crowded pilgrimages began to be made to him, monks and laymen came for his blessing, and turned to him for advice as to a great elder. It is precisely this way, wise and loving, that he will appear before the readers of these memoirs. “It’s a wonderful thing: in the ancient Yaroslavl outback, on the unflooded island of the Molog lands, the broken connection of times closes and the treasure of ancient Orthodoxy is kept in imperishable purity. And the life of Archimandrite Paul itself seems to be intertwined with the parable – you won’t understand where reality ends and legend begins.”