The Life of an Experienced Wanderer. My Thoughts and Reflections

For the first time, authentic notes and reflections of a wanderer, Gregory, are published in a separate book so that he can be judged impartially. His thoughts are the voice of conscience of a man in whom there is no falseness.

«When I was a novice in the Pskovo-Pechersk monastery, I was given the obedience of sorting an old library sent to the monastery. Among the books I came across a pamphlet written by Gregory Rasputin about his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This book left me stunned. Before me stood a deeply believing, sincere, and pure man who could receive a shrine and, with reverence, convey his impressions of it. Later, while talking with the last representatives of the first wave of Russian emigration, I heard many terrible stories about Gregory Rasputin.

In the history of mankind there are mysterious individuals about whom we will never know anything completely until God’s Last Judgment. Sometimes it is necessary to refrain even from investigating such persons—these investigations are doomed in advance to endless and fruitless wordplay. But all the more should one refuse the attempt to pre-judge God’s court about a person.» Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).