The series “Children’s Stories of a Rural Parish” was conceived in order to gently, without moralizing, reveal to children many moral and spiritual truths. For this, the author created vivid characters of young heroes and funny situations they find themselves in. Or maybe they are not entirely invented. After all, Father Sergiy Nikolayev is not only the rector of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Zaozerye, in the Moscow Oblast—he teaches for many years in the parish Sunday school and in school-gymnasiums, so he has plenty of personal observations…