Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov for many decades carried senile ministry in the Russian Orthodox Church. In the XX century in Russia, this service was special. Years of persecution, trials; years of returning shrines, returning to Christ. Elder Nikolai was an assistant, adviser, comforter for the laity, priests, monks. Following his heavenly patron - St. Nicholas - the elder covered all our weaknesses, sins, imperfections with love, instructed with love, admonished with love. The book contains the memoirs of various people - those to whom the Lord granted, at least once, a meeting with the old man Nikolai.