The book contains letters from St. Seraphim (Romantsov), one of the last Glinsky elders, to the sisters of the Kyiv Intercession Monastery. But these letters can be addressed to anyone who sincerely seeks salvation. Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin), who personally knew Elder Seraphim, writes in his memoirs about him that he “possessed enormous spiritual experience and the gift of insight into the human soul.” And this can be read in every word of the letters, which seem to pierce the soul, revealing all its nakedness, removing the snare of seduction from it. And how much pastoral care for the human soul is put into these letters, how much unfeigned love, trying to help everyone who asks for advice. We hope that many readers will find in Father Seraphim a strict but loving spiritual father.