About the book: 2013 / This book introduces the reader to the life and spiritual path of Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov) - one of the three monks Optina Pustyn, killed on Easter morning 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, who followed Christ both in life and in death.