THE PHENOMENON BEFORE

                         THE SINNER

 

 

 

   From old запорожца there was a high, harmonous guy and has got from a wardrobe trunk the camera.

   - And nevertheless I have reached this place. What magnificent panorama. Because of the big overcast it would be reasonable to use an orange optical filter, - the amateur photographer has thought.? What force has resulted here. After all it was necessary to go both in a tractor, and in the tourist bus. But больший the way has passed after all on foot! Fine possibility to say a promised prayer:? Отче ours, Izhe еси on небесех!? 

   Has begun slowly накапывать a rain. Already in the third time the prayer is carried by by an echo on perimeter of a small site of a slope of mountain. For some reason it wanted to lonely traveler to look at young sprouts of a filbert. Bushes have begun to move, and someone began to leave them....

   ... Slightly with the inclined head, holding a staff in the right hand, slowly, there was a mysterious phantom in ten meters from the wandering person. After a while the mysterious image of the monk has disappeared in wet foliage.

  - But what it with me? I want it to call and stop, but I can not.

   So since a minute three, in full catalepsy the dervish tried to tell something, but and couldn't.

   - Well, will suffice! It is time to go home. And why should stand here how paralysed and to become wet in the rain? Today on twenty seventh of September. Tomorrow after all has decided to be christened in Apsheronske. 

             The shepherd came back from wood to a roadside edge. In next, for a long time the carriage written off from the assembly organization, he has seen a smoke, and has decided to check up, who could be there?

   Having come into the filled with smoke premise, has seen at a fire of the tourist drying blotted jacket.

    - Hey, the friend, we will go to me in mobile балаганчик, there and you will be warmed! Here anything it is not necessary to burn down, you can make a fire!

      Near a door rolled: a horse harness and a long Cossack whip. On буржуйке stood: the smoked teapot and a kettle in which meat cooked. In small, but a cozy small house the continuous chaos reigned.

    - If not you, Nikolay, I do not know, as would think in the saturated with smoke,  thrown, mouldering car. During a drizzle saw whether an image of the person, whether in a demotic way? Reduction.

   - One what for has gone to mountains?? The unshaven owner has asked a hoarse voice, - and has started to adjust fire wood in the furnace.

     - On a plateau of Lagonaki has come for the first time. One year ago, when has earned on All-Union building of a money, has given itself a vow that before a christening should come on any mountain and read some prayers. Before has become interested in the bible from which much that has understood where in life was mistaken and where isn't present. Though a lot of not clear is in the Holy Writ. I want to be christened at home country. After all parents didn't christen me in the childhood. But was born under a lucky star! I know that there is still named mother and the father, but their nobility isn't known. Leaving from Kazakhstan, at all didn't take blessing from parents.

   - Blessing is better to receive from крещёных parents. They at you крещёные?

   - The father isn't present, and mum? Yes.

     - And I the brother work here on hiring from Armavir. The workmate has left recently in a city. Now one I watch herd. What the surname at you, can, I know.

   - Abakumov.

    - No, didn't hear about the such.

    - At not terribly night?? The photomaster asks, - removing blotted, jeans jacket for drying.

    - Yes isn't present. I have a German double-barreled gun. Today here again it was not possible to shoot down a wolf. It to turn for a long time near herd. Here jackals, happened, don't allow to sleep, but to all you get used. Allow to have dinner. Sit down a table and impose beef, how many the soul will wish.  

    - As soon as the rain to stop, I will go further. It would be desirable to get home today. Tomorrow to come to work, - Abakumov has told, having extended from a cover  the big hunting knife, and has dexterously spread on its edge pair of the big pieces of meat. Then has accurately put them on a plate where bread and garlic already lay.

     - And what for to you this wormwood?

      - I to it kindle an oven. Yes you know, once, near to us here were Mihajlo-Athos Zakubansky man's общежительная deserts. Now the monastery is thrown and needs under repair. Therefore, there is a simple explanation of that you saw. Perhaps, the phenomenon of the monk? Probably, the Holy Spirit has prompted to you that will meet on the journey the shepherd who will give a roof in rainy weather. This sign for you is sent with kindness. After all the phantom of the monk was in a white attire.

   - Yes.

- Only one God knows that he in the future prepares for people. The world is full poor creatures and lucky beggars. Heard from one brother that схимонах Vitaly (in the world - Vasily Fyodorovich Rastorguev) on the Sacred mountain, in Athos, has got acquainted with келиотом Celibate priest Martiriem, the native of Russia. Rastorguev has told to it about wandering across the Western caucasus. Then there was an idea of creation of a monastic monastery on caucasus on own means. Taking itself in companions from Athos brotherhood of celibate priest Markiana and father Valeriana, father Martiry (in the world Martin) has moved directly to caucasus, to valleys and to large forests of mountains about which told, an island Vitaly. After long and tiresome travel, they have safely reached a wild, deserted place. And so have been amazed and fascinated by magnificence of surrounding district that in prayful delight have started singing:?? Yes воссияет and to us guilty, Your Light, присносущный, prayers of Virgin Svetodavche, Glory to You!?

  - Here tourists often come?? The visitor asks, thus, slowly, pours in a mug tea.

    - No, not often. Many with the big backpacks pass by. Come when there is a necessity to learn a correct reference point on the journey, or, simply want to take cover from a bad weather.

     Having waited a rain, the traveler took things, has thanked the owner for hospitality and has gone to a way back. Having passed the Azishsky cave, the mysterious dervish, villages in the passing? Mazda?.

      - Usually I do not stop, - the driver has told, - I see that with a camera walk, here and тормознул. I after all too work in a cave as the photographer, and on staff? дизелистом.

     Leaving the car, the tired wanderer has gone to a noisy hostel where after a modest supper, has strong fallen asleep.

  

           

                                    EPILOGUE. 

 

      The next day Abakumov has visited orthodox church where it was christened in a simple attire, having received from a hall of the sister a small white towel and having bought a copper dagger in a bench.

The author: Vladimir Sheshukov

Date of a writing of the story:

Publication date on sajte:21.12.2010/Ermak/

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