About the book: 1994 / The book is a collection of conversations and interviews, published mostly in periodicals of recent years. However, many of these publications have a small circulation ("Church and Time", "Literator") or are practically inaccessible to readers in Russia ("Bulletin of the Russian Western European Patriarchal Exarchate"). A few words about the “genre” of published texts. The Bishop never writes or prepares his speeches in advance. Such preparation is his entire life, entirely directed towards a single goal: to bring the Gospel of Christ to people. The texts are printed with minimal editorial changes in order to preserve the sound of a living word, addressed not to an impersonal audience, but to each individual person. The book opens with a lengthy autobiographical account of his early years. For those readers for whom this book is their first meeting with Metropolitan Anthony, we supplement it with a brief summary of the external milestones of his life.