About the book: 2016 / The book includes memories of different people about this amazing woman - the famous northern healer Vera Alekseevna Zashikhina. The author of the book, Anastasia Polyarnaya, met Vera Alekseevna in 2004, after which she tried to visit her every year. During the last meeting in July 2010, Vera Alekseevna blessed Anastasia to write a book about her. Having first visited the Russian North as a student, Anastasia fell in love with this region for the rest of her life and now comes to the Arkhangelsk region several times a year. She herself is a Muscovite, graduated Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, graduate school of Moscow State University; Candidate of Philological Sciences, young scientist, teacher.