For fourteen years—from 1946 to 1960—Grigory Rasputin’s daughter, Matrena, who fled Russia, wrote this book, never daring to publish it.
"The whole world of my father—his behavior, his manner of speaking, the very course of his thoughts—did not fit the traditional ideas about elders—blessed, calm… He was a new type, born of our time. ‘New’ is a very important explanation. However, it needs an addition that no one has managed—or dared—to make until now. My father was indeed an elder, but only an elder who was not alien to the world; an elder living on earth with thoughts in his mind. He was worldly in every sense. Rasputin knew the secret—how to be saved in this life".