About the book: 2022 / The book is dedicated, writes co-author of our common work Grigory Trofimovich Shalakin, — the amazing fate of the native Siberian Archimandrite Seraphim (in the schema of Irenaeus, in the world of Alexander Egorovich Bryksin (1931–2019), born in the grain-producing Altai region and hardened by labor in the Kuzbass coal mine. Having gone through the harsh trials and tribulations of the era of Soviet atheism, he carried the saint Orthodox faith across the vast expanses of the vast country and, by the will of fate, focused on the revival of church life in Western Siberia. The diaries of the oldest cleric tell about this, which are filled with a deep meaning of obedience to the Will of God, lifting the veil over the mystery of existence, the notes of the archimandrite included many events and names in connection. with which the general narrative was framed by materials and biographies of people accompanying Father Seraphim (Irenaeus) on the path of serving the Lord