The book is dedicated to the description of the author’s journey to the holy historical places of Christianity and the resting place of the miraculous relics of the holy metropolitan, saint of God Nicholas of Myra. The pilgrimage to Myra Lycia (Turkey), Bari (Italy), Jerusalem (Israel) on the eve of the round anniversary of the Battle of Borodino (1812-2012) is associated not only with national events to prepare and conduct the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War of 1812, but also with the study of the mysterious ancient history of Mozhaisk and its legendary shrine – Nikola Mozhaisky. The continuity and mutual influence in Russian history of the choice of the site of the battle of the Russian and French armies near the holy city of the Fatherland Mozhaisk with its Orthodox shrine of St. Nicholas of Mozhaisk from St. Nicholas Cathedral is shown, from the walls of which one can see the Borodino field, nameless before the events of the legendary battle of 1812. Will the revival and arrival of the wooden Nikola from Moscow to Mozhaisk take place in 2012 during the celebration of Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War? Will Lermontov’s gloomy prophecies about the coming world war around 2014 and the subsequent revolutionary upheavals in Russia in 16-17 come true or not? To what extent does the success or embarrassment of the Sochi Winter Olympics depend on the Providence of God, the “Nikolin’s intercession” of His First Saint, as well as Russian elected authorities at all levels? Which of the current power duumvirate, two energetic leaders of the state, will, according to the laws of popular choice and Russian mysticism, become the President of the Russian Federation in Borodino 2012? How long will it be for the Russian duumvirate and the rebirth of the sinful Russian soul in the “end times,” when the coming apocalypse has already arrived “here and now”? Will there be a new phenomenon in Russian history of the wooden shrine of St. Nicholas the Sword Bearer and the Wonderworker after the Moscow appearance of a similar fresco icon of St. Nicholas of Mozhaisky on the St. Nicholas Tower of the Kremlin? Should the sacred city of Nikolai be revived, the pearl of Mozhai, once again shining in Russian history with all its wonderful facets, in the Russian crown? Will the Victorious Russian Fatherland be in a fight with world challenges and the universal evil of the “last dangerous times” at the turn of centuries and millennia?
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