Mother Adrian Malysheva nun from intelligence. Mother Adriana: How the Soviet expulsion-atheism has become a monk

Pühtitsky Mother Adriana has passed three wars. Great domestic explosion. "Cold War" - in the rank of the lead engine designer for the first ballistic missiles and spacecraft. And in old age, she was torn to the nun, re-engaged in the battle. This time - eternal, for the souls of people.

Meet? You are welcome! Write the phone, "said Mother Adrian and in his memory in his 87 years dictated a mobile number. We met her in the gallery of the artist Shilov, where recently you can see her portrait.

Similarly, the intelligence of Malyshev remembered the Great Patriotic War of staff German conversations, listened to them lying on the stomach, in the snow or in the mud, through special equipment.

"The trouble of man is that he lives with a loaf on others"

Equipment she connected to the German cable, stretching on the ground. What the amount of valuable military information transmitted it in this way "its", no one, of course, did not consider it.

After dozens of years, the intelligence and the nuns fit in one person. "Yes, such two unusual hatches in one person," the mother of Adrian smiles. In her cell, at the Bed itself, hangs a simple carpet with the image of Jesus Christ. It seems that it comes to life when, during our conversation, the Pühtitsky nuns laughs unexpectedly young, cheerful laughter or, on the contrary, hesitates in thought. In one of these moments, we wondered if she asked to someone a question in which the meaning of life.

No, "Mother Adrian shrugged," I often ask him. In my opinion, we live in order to prepare ourselves in the covenings of the Lord. Nobody needs to be performed 100%. The desire itself is better welcome. After all, gospel laws and for mutual communication are good. The misfortune of man is that he is constantly looking around. I think it's stupid when God and the Bible are in hand, all the time fuss and focus on others.

These are such simple recipes "live not by lies" Mother Adrian gives everyone whose confused souls to her at the Pühtitsky compound pried. The retired major in black robe, she is now as if on a fighting post. Every day, given over, perceives as a new task: It comes to a new manner and the rights of an intellectual nun communicates with people coming on the courtyard.

"I feel necessary to choose: church or politics"

Fate is actually not two, but three. Probably, this is a talent - to live them so that any of them on the envy of the heroes and is unique, and historically, and is organically stacked into the wide channel of the only life river. Watch a personal "film" Mother Adriana is better to overlapping her back. You see how the triple helix of her Fatum turns into a solid straight, the code from which Mother Adriana tied itself.

You ask what is common between the shares of the nun and the share of scouts. Much in common! After all, there, and there is one goal one - you forget about yourself when you need to help the other, "says the nun and winds the film for about 15 years ago.

In the yard of 1993. The well-deserved Moscow pensioner Natalia Vladimirovna Malysheva begins to help revive the Pühtitsky farm in Moscow. Almost at the same time, Yeltsin tanks take on the winks of the Supreme Council of Russia, whose deputy she at one time almost became.

God gods you! - Notice.

In the consent of the nun nods his head. And laughs. Above oneself. Its nomination in the "that very" supreme council today recalls with irony, and there was a time when this fact strongly kept her ambitions. Nevertheless, on a political field, she also set a cross. Of course, Christian.

Imagine, "she says," I just started attending the church, and I call me some meetings, speeches demand before the public, pre-election promises. I even got good at night. I need to choose: church or politics. The spine began to hurt. Well, I came to the hill and refused to run for health. No one objected. Spare bench was wide.

"Soviet children still had to fight!"

We will see an even more interesting picture, descending at the very beginning of Khrushchev times. Imagine NII-88, headed by Isaev and Queen. Girl graduated aviation Institute, Corpits over now legendary drawings.

Americans were afraid of them! - recalls the mother of Adrian about the first ballistic missiles, the engines for which designed herself. And she was the only woman in state Commission on testing rocket complexes. Well, and then space. The subject of professional pride to this day is small thrust engines for the first spacecraft.

They are the most "jewelry"! She exclaims. - In fact, those that help space ships break away from the orbit and return back to Earth.

Mother Adrian at some point turns back again in the leading designer of the head institute of the defense ministry. It seems, give her will, she will contribute to the re-equipment of the country today. Only ... It is hardly an accident that it pulled it into the church under the 80s curtain, when it ended " cold War».

Does war change a woman's soul? - Once asked at the Mother Adriana.

It does not change to the worst, she said softly.

Monastic her pier predetermined the Great Patriotic War - Scary for the strength of a cry for four years, who walked a deep-water spiritual beginning in her soul. Even in the 7th grade, Natasha Malyshev did not differ from all other Soviet children, except that the remaining remaining the remaining states of the states of the enemies surrounded by the USSR. Dreaming about the exploits, an energetic girl learned to shoot, ride a horse, graduated from medical courses, sang "and on the enemy of the earth we are defeated by small blood, a powerful blow."

We still had to fight with anyone! - Mother Adrian laughs. - I am ashamed to confess, but when the radio announced that Hitler attacked the USSR, Mom turned pale, and I was terribly delighted: "Oh, how good! What I need! Yes, we defeat them for the week! "

"God saved that no one had to kill!"

When Moscow has been renovated from real bombing, when the car and the word "evacuation" came from the West to the east, how the glow fired in his native sky ... then the state ideology resulted out of it as bad water, and in young skin quickly, like formic acid, eaten Primitive fear of mischief, which she made the first and chief choice in his life.

Before me, I got a choice: leaving or remain to defend Moscow. All physical in me tremble. But the inner voice said: "No, your place here. You dreamed of the exploits - now, when the homeland is in danger, go and defend! "

"We have a lot of nurses. Maybe in intelligence? " She asked her commander when a 19-year-old fragile Komsomolka came to sign up on the front volunteer. "With pleasure," the rusted granddaughter of the priest answered absolutely sincerely.

The future mother Adriana took the whole war. He who fought, knows what it is. Smreons of glass dreams about romantic exploits. Multiple collections in the rear of the enemy for information about the location, technique, childbirth of the enemy's troops. Ase conspiracy, legends in case of meeting with the fascists, overnight in the forest, sleep on the go and at the same time a holy opportunity to substitute another shoulder, risking his own life.

Melci himself, but save a friend. The principle in intelligence is. I do not remember that I was afraid at least once. Wait ... Only once, when the German did not take a closer. I prayed at the last moment, he stood behind his back with a gun and suddenly said: "I'm not fighting with girls!" The whole war went as if under the hood, felt that there was someone strong who would choose me. But most importantly, God saved me that no one had to kill anyone!

In the red forties, the intelligence of the 16th Army, the commander of Konstantin Rokossovsky rustled. "Almost all the tasks sent personally, I asked not to risk in vain," smiles from the memories of Mother Adriana. Well, and in last years I brought it already as a monk of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, who recently gone from us to another world. Every year he sent her personal gifts to Victory Day. COLLECTED, as it is, when I came to Pühtitsky compound in Moscow.

The circle that I went around, led me here. And no one will repulse me that my way could have to work out somehow differently. There was nothing casual. For example, I had to work perfectly to work out a personal life, but I did not work out, and there is no fault, "the Mother of Adriana reflects and the black hood correlates his usual movement. For the first time, she tried him back in childhood when he went to a passionate monastery. And this is considered the right one that the girl will become a monk. Probably the intelligence officer who went into the monks, by definition of the fatalist.

The nun and explosion in one person is Natalia Malysheva, she is a mother of Adriana. She became known for the whole country a few years before death. A book was published about her, the famous artist Shilov wrote her portrait, for the merit before the Fatherland, she received the Order of Andrei First Called.

All the Great Patriotic War she passed the intelligence. Secret tasks instructed her personally Marshal Rokossovsky. After the war, Natalia Malysheva was headed by the development of Earth-Air combat missiles. At the peak of a career, she went to the monastery.

Soviet schoolgirl Natasha Malysheva

Germany also did not think to attack the USSR, and the Soviet schoolgirl Natasha Malyshev, singing under his breath "If tomorrow war, if tomorrow in a hike, I swam in the pool, went skiing, jumping on a horse and learned to shoot.

We had this generation: Patriotic, "says the adrian nun today, they were ready to defend their homeland. I didn't know how to walk on skis, but someone from the acquaintances said: "You are what! You know how important it is if the military action is winter! " And I got on skis.

Hooray! War!

On the radio announced: war. All frozen. A 19-year-old Natasha hardly screamed "Hurray" - finally fate gave her a chance to become a hero.
"Romantics were not understood": "she says now."

And then the Mai student immediately ran into the military registration and enlistment office. Nowhere they did not take: "Go to learn, we will turn without you." And only when the Germans were near Moscow, raised all the statements. None of the volunteers did not change his mind - 11 thousand people were collected in a week. Three divisions. They came to be recorded by families.

As a form, recruits were issued military costumes with Mosfilm - sample of civil war times.

Harium pants, huge - to me to the armpits, - remembers Malysheva. - So in the form and came: Mom say that the front is meant.

Mom crushed. A future explosion, so that you yourself do not break down, said deliberately rude: "Well, what are you crying? See what time? You and the burns are not enough for me. "

A barracks - the same tiny, as the current cell of the nun Adriana, "seven people accommodated. We slept on the floor without undressing.

In November, Natalia took her oath. And in two months later I went to intelligence. They took immediately - helped a great knowledge of German. For four years of war, she visited the enemy's rear of 18 times.

What is the front line? Is it possible to explain? You go on the same land. But the faster, the faster you turn into an object ... The first time the Germans were not very vigilant. But then everything changed:

When the Germans became alendie, and the war unfolded in all the power, Natalia was sent to depart in intelligence. "Return home," she said to comrades, acting on the instructions. Odno pilots looked with distrust. "Are you in the rear?! When is the war in full swing? " The reproaches were terribly hurt. But the intelligence officer did not have the right.
In the intelligence school she was taught secrecy, observation, cooling. Taken to survive in the forest. Think and listen to intuition.

After studying Natasha fell into the 16th Army Rokossovsky. And already went to the tasks not as a warrior - in a maskhalate, but in the image of a rustic girl with a kittombo. Deep in the rear of the enemy she had to listen to the negotiations of the enemy and report about his plans. Rokossovsky himself visited her tasks. And rushing: "I ask, not risk in vain."

Strange German

Natasha has always stayed in strange confidence that they will not kill. And strangely remained alive even when there were no chance. Once it was forced for a listener german soldier:

During the front line, I was translated accompanying. He had a wired communication scheme. Connecting, I listened and remembered everything important thing that passed the German command of his troops. Then he returned to his and reported on the headquarters heard.

Twice such operations were successful. But until the end of life, I will not forget what happened in my third raid. When I was already disconnected and got out of the shelter, so that, waiting for the darkness, to return to my, my back felt that not alone. Quickly turned around, snatched a gun - according to the instructions it was necessary to end the life of suicide, so as not to get in captivity, but immediately got a blow on his hand. My gun instantly turned out to be the German standing before me. I frank from horror: now I will be given to the German headquarters. Lord, just not it!

I did not even see what it was for the German - neither the title, I did not see any age from fear. The heart popped out of the chest, I almost did not breathe. And suddenly, grabbing me by the shoulders, the German jerk turned me back to him. "Well, now he will shoot," I thought even with relief. And immediately got a strong push in the back. Far in front of me fell and a gun.

With girls I'm not fighting! And take a gun, otherwise you will shoot your own ...

I overlook, turned and saw a long figure going into the depths of the forest.

My legs did not obey me, and I, stumbling, wandered to the place, from where it was possible to go to my. On the road, he led himself to a more or less normal state and returned as usual.

Her mother was a believer, and in the soul of Natalia, the Soviet ideology and faith in God had a strange way. Her front prayer consisted of their two words: "Lord, help!" - With the explanation: "Only not captivity!"

He made me beauties

But one Natalina Loss turned out to be irrelevant: the first love, the son of the pilot Babushkin Misha, died at the very beginning of the war.

So little we had time, - Mother Adriana looks thoughtfully into the ceiling of his narrow celi. - I first brought him. He said: "Find yourself a porrower." And Misha answers me: "But why?" And then I broke through: "Because I'm ugly." My mother always said that: "You have a beautiful sister, and you are clever." He led me to the mirror and says: "You have no eye? Do not see your beauty? " I burst out. He first gave me the opportunity to feel attractive. And I first believed. And on the other day I became familiar to say: "You, Natasha, somehow changed, has become so pretty." As if at one moment I slept a frog skar after his words.

When the war began, Misha went to the courses of pilots - the elite regiment was formed in Lyubertsy. Natasha said: "You have nothing to do with you, I will fight for two."
He died on October 25, 1941. Natasha found out about his death only a year later. "Misha no more ..." - that's all that his parents told her on the phone ...

Front-line weekdays Natasha Malysheva

Once she decided to tell about what is usually not told. About the front of a young girl. Mother Adrian believed that it was no less important to know what about the front line, shootouts, and how to exploration ...

The most difficult on the front is a life, especially the girlfriend. With our men, even under the bush go - and there was a problem! You go to yourself with a squirrel on skis, you begin to lag behind, you think, now I am quickly - and catch up! But only here all men seem to be concerned:

- Guys, a smaller step, Natasha is tired!

I unwittingly think: "So that you dreamed everything!" One day she could not stand it, chose one older and say:

- Well, what are you so stupid all!

And he answers in bewilderment:

"Yes, we never occurred to us that you would like to say about it."

- Would come! Now go the last and do not turn around. And do not give anyone to stop or return. Catch you up.

And how else will you say about it? "You go, and I need to go to the toilet?"

I love Tsiolkovsky

After the war, Natasha returned to MAI. When it was a distribution, the application wrote to a new direction - rocket engines. It, of course, refused: only men took to the group.

Sometimes I will do something stupid, but it goes well, "says Natalia Vladimirovna. - To the statement, I liked two lines by naivety: I love Tsiolkovsky very much and that during the war he successfully coped with all the male duties.

The Commission laughed for a long time, but accepted.

After graduation, Malyshev received a distribution in the NII-88 in the sublip.
Natalia Vladimirovna worked in this sphere of 35 years. The engineer Designer Malyshev participated in the creation of engines for maneuvering and braking in the orbit of the first ballistic missiles and spacecraft, including the Gagarinsky "East". She was the only woman in the State Commission on Test Rocket Complex. N. V. Malysheva participated in the creation of engines for the rocket of the anti-aircraft missile complex C-75 Peter Grushin.

Another life

It was then that she began to take care of the temple.

One father really liked - from the back. And turns - without a beard. What kind of priest is a fabor? I wanted to leave, and he me: "Are you to me?" I had to say: "To you, Batyushka." Then we sat in the church courtyard. He did not ask anything, and I said everything, said - told her life in the smallest details. As if released.

In the early 90s, Malysheva was offered to run into the Supreme Council. At the same time, its assistance was required at the courtyard of the Pühthytsky Monastery. It was necessary to choose something. And Natalia Vladimirovna chose Celle overlooking the church.

Sometimes they ask me, I do not feel the melancholy from what happened in everything, and as a woman - no. Mean that there is no family, children, "says Mother Adriana.

You know, this female longing is incomprehensible to me. What to raise? About a huge stomach and need to subordinate your life to a tender baby? You do not think: I love children. And they reach me. But there is no one, and I do not think it is a tragedy.

With the children of the adrian nun, the Nuns talked on the eve of May 9th - called school.
"Apparently, this is my cross - to testify about the war," the nun sighs and silences for a long time.

Looks somewhere far ...

The nun Adriana (Malysheva), in the world Natalya Vladimirovna Malysheva. Major retired.He passed the whole of the Great Patriotic War, was in intelligence, after the war he served in Germany, then worked as the engine designer at S. P. Queen. Leaving the world on the night of February 4, at the 91st year of life. The funeral will be committed at the courtyard of the Pühtitsky monastery in the Svt Temple. Nicholas in the stares on February 6 at 11.00.

- Mother Adriana? - I asked very loudly, gaining the number of the cellular nun Adriana (Malysheva).

Yes, yes!, - answered a cheerful and cheerful voice in the tube.

As well, that you will come to interview after May 9, such texts always get better than those in a hurry prepare the day before.

Today she is 90.

If in a nutshell, then she went through the entire war with a scout, after the war graduated from MAI and worked as an engineer designer from S.P. Korolev. The retirement went only to work did not interfere with her to give all the strength by reviving Pühtitsky Pozavia. If you again in a nutshell, then all her life passed in the epicenter of the most active activity.

More than a year ago, the heavy fracture of the leg was carried out, it is practically locked in its cell and completely dependent on others - not always attentive, caring and punctual. What does not prevent her from joking, serving songs and make recall names from the "Hero of our time" of her beloved M. Lermontov.

"I have every word it comes to my heart. I can't find anything from him that I would somehow have somehow satisfied, it turned out ... "

Unwanted daughter

Natasha Malysheva was an unwanted child in the family - the mother wanted only her son.

"She even thoughts did not allow that it could happen differently. And already talked with a future son, he said "he" when someone asked her about well-being before childbirth. The disappointment was unbearable for her and complicated life from the first days of any innocent child. "

Love and attention had to conquer with early childhood, Intuitively: Natasha learned to read in 5 years, and she repeated all her school lessons for her sister, so then the teacher's school did not know what to do with her. And she entertained himself a lot - for example, he ran to catch the sun for the horizon, confident that she would definitely catch up. Once, after reading about the cavalid girl, Durov, understood - this is fate!

Crucifixion

Once Natasha met Christ.

In the girl who has not yet destroyed passionate monastery, led to the cross on which there was a person. On which there was God. And in his legs - nails! As the five-year-old Natasha teeth, to tear off the nails from the preching feet of the Savior - did not succumb to carved nails, and they did not get away from the crucifixion ...

Misha Babushkin

Since childhood, Mom reminded Natasha that she is ugly, here is Olya's sister - yes, and she stands at the mirror! Therefore, when a classmate in Mai Curney and High Misha Babushkin (son of the hero Soviet Union) He began to praise more often with her, she suspected the catch and resolutely stopped acquaintance. But he continued to accompany her, invited her home to get acquainted with his parents. Suddenly, he returned to the conversation of a week ago: "Why don't you believe that I like you?".

Having dropped his head, I told about the sadness, with which I lived since childhood: "After all, I'm ugly!". Then he led me to the wardrobe, grabbed the shoulders and turned to a huge mirror:

"Look at yourself! Look! What eyes do you have! Smile! And do not dare never say so! ".

I sprinkled. I buried him in my shoulder, I cry, and I feel as if I was slipping the skin with a nasty frog, in which I shed myself. A miracle happened - Natasha began to nice in front of his eyes - from happiness.

War

1941 year. War. At first it seemed that for several days - they would break the enemy and do not have time to stand up for the homeland. But these months ... "The bombs fell on Arbat, fell opposite the Bolshoi Theater. I understood that everything turned out at all as I thought. We were going to go and win. And then suddenly talk about prisoners, about large quantities of wounded "...

Misha went to the front immediately - he studied at a military pilot. Natasha went to the front in October, Misha discussed it - already on the phone as he could.

"I clearly imagined myself what I was going, but there was no oscillation. As if some strength was led by me: I knew what I should do this. Home went to pick up the necessary things. I used to leave sometimes for night duty at the hospital, so I didn't guessed my mother. "

More than that love that was to Misha - did not meet in life, so far his photography is in a prominent place. Until now, Mother friend is friends with Mishina ....

She was in intelligence. Good german, very young - like a teenager - she quickly learned to crawl in Plastanski, watch in a guideline and most importantly - not to throw comrade in trouble.

Saved

So she saved in the winter of 1941 in the winter of the wounded fellow soldier - he was thrown, because to pull out the wounded through an open place, which was shot through the Germans, it was impossible. Natasha did not obey the order and rushed at the wounded.

"When I found Jura, he opened his eyes and whispered:" Oh, came! And I thought you were thrown me. "

And so he looked at me, he had eyes, that I understood - if such a thing happened - I would also go again and once again, just again see such gratitude and happiness in the eyes.

We had to crawl through the place that the Germans shot. One I crawled it quickly, but how to be together? The wounded was broken by one leg, another foot and hands were intact. I pulled his leg with a harness, connected our belts, asked to help me with my hands. We moved to Clarice in the opposite way.

And suddenly it suddenly went thick snow, as in order, as if in the theater! Snowflakes glued together, fell "legs", and under this snow cover we felt the most dangerous place.

Natalia Malysheva. In 1941

At halfway, we were rushed to meet our guys, took the hands of Yura, and I also had to drag - I was left for the forces. "

Life

The hardest on the front is life. Women's life among men.

"The big difficulty was with our men even under the bush to go! Here you go with a squad, you will start to lag behind, you think - now I quickly and catch up! But I just start to lag behind how immediately all men become careless as if it were specifically: "Guys, a smaller step, Natasha is tired!". I think: "Well, so that you dreamed everything!". Once I still chose one older and, I say: "Well, what are you so stupid all what?". And he answers in bewilderment: "Yes, we never occurred to me that you would be afraid to say so"

Stalingrad, Kursk Arc. She went with the calls to the Germans to give up, once on the velvet, German caught her - and ... let go with the words: "I'm not fighting with girls!"

The feeling of victory came unexpectedly, and then the victory was ordered to practically forget - only in 1965 the celebrations and honors to veterans were returned.

Rocket Label

Natasha Malysheva, who worked for several years in Germany, graduated from Mai and began to work in rocket art.

Beyond the graduation project

"It was hard to look for a mistake in the calculations. You will calculate everything, you will thoroughly check and recover, each start costs a lot of money, everyone is watching. And suddenly the rocket at the landfill begins to flure!. Somehow there was a spurn in the pipe, which caused leakage, and one of the components lack resources. But while you set the cause of the accident - how much time passes! "

By tragic chance, life SP is interrupted. Queen and A.M. Isaeva, and the Malysheva begins at a completely different life - in the usual Soviet institution, where people do not burn work, do not sit at night, work for a salary, and not for the idea. It became empty.

Serezha Father Sylvester

At this time, the girlfriend told a secret: the son of Seryozha accepted the victor, became a priest ... "Maybe you will go with me to spend, how is he there?"

"Sergey, in response to my appeal" Seryozha! ", I corrected strictly slowly:" Father Sylvester ". Almost silently we reached the village. Stopped out of the hut with a small barroom and a well. Two rooms. In one cell Father Sylvester, in the other there were a bed, topchain, table and two stools. From the ceiling through the slots stuck pieces of packles, there are no curtains on the windows, "convenience" in the yard. I remembered the magnificent three-room apartment of Colonel Lukashenko, Father Serge. And suddenly instead of horror and protest felt such a tide of delight that he could not hide it. "Lord! - I thought, - What a strong faith sent you to this young man, so that it is absolutely voluntarily, to get away from a comfortable life here, in this launch, one, and be so calm and peaceful! "

The change that occurred with Sergey - O.Silvester struck Natalia Vladimirovna. She began to be in the temple, read the gospel ... "Everything that has so far was the meaning of my life: work, active social activity, the desire to be the center of attention, - at once, opposed and lost the value. "

Soon she found the confessor, traveled many monasteries, began to work on the restoration of the coupling of the Pühtitsky monastery. It was not enough time, and she decided to retire. It was reluctant, but Natalia Vladimirovna was adamant - once decided - all.

Sister Adriana

Here in 2000, she accepted the post. Favorite name Natalia - What kind of name will now be in the tonsure?

"I will never forget for minutes of waiting for your new name, and when I was called from the mouth of Vladyka:" Our Adrian sister "was difficult for me to keep his joy. Now I will stay forever with my holy martyr Natalie, as she and Adrian is one whole soul and body. "

For more than a year, the mother does not walk - after a severe feet. She is always active and most active, skier and ballerina - chained to their chair and completely dependent on others - not always attentive, mandatory and ram.

Each mother of Adrian meets with a smile and warmth.

Rules of life

"I had two rules in my life:

"Never delay where you really want to stay." This rule has become a rescue for me for life. I have never been an annoying visiting, always leaving, although I was asked to stay.

With Holy Patriarch Alexy

The second rule came when I was already older. Watching people, I realized that in society in no case cannot be shown in humans that you were offended. Even if you have said some kind of rudeness, or not so politely turned. It is much better to take yourself in hand, make a completely misunderstanding face and ask him: "You probably happened to you? Bad mood?". I assure you - this is a wonderful medicine. Then, when I have already become deliberately in Christian laws, I realized that this is me, though some selfish humility, but humility. A man tells me rudeness, and I express participation, I do not allow any idea that this rudeness treats me and to our relationship. Amazingly works well. "

The highest award is the Order of St. Andrei First Called

90

Today she is 90.

These are only a few short episodes from her life and we hope soon to publish the book memories of Mother Adriana and definitely give her all congratulations. Write. Not concisely and compressed, write - every letter we read Mother - clearly, measured and leisurely - as she asks himself!

Anna Danilova

How did the Soviet speakers decide to become a nun? What did she survive during the Great Patriotic War? And what happened to her in recent years? TV channel "Moscow Trust" has prepared a special report.

Not of this world

The former intelligence major Natalya Malyshev at the end of life became a real star: they published a book about it, her portrait wrote a famous artist, wished to meet her Patriarch. And all because, being at the peak of a career, unexpectedly for all, the intelligence atheistry went to the monastery.

"She is a little bit like our stereotype of an old man or old man, she was a very good example of life," said Vladimir Mishchenko's vice president of Andrei Foundation.

Natalia Malysheva

She passed the Great Patriotic War without a single injury. Secret tasks instructed her personally Marshal Rokossovsky. Natalia Malyshev did not take any bullet, and the Germans, grabbed, let go. With these miracles, she did not give any importance for many years until once fell into the church.

Eve of the 1990s. Natalia Malysheva is seriously ill. She faces full paralysis. This happens literally before the election of deputies to the Supreme Council of Russia. She removes her candidacy. It turns out, it was a sign over.

Natalia Malysheva remains away from politics. Not anyone is found, the first time almost does not come out of the house. But the worst forecasts are not justified, and when it can move, go to the nearest temple.

Secret visits to the church, which she made the last few years, can already be done with obvious.

"She told how she came to God. They arrived with their front-line girlfriend to discourage her son, at that time he, in my opinion, was a novice, to discourage him to be from this hole, from Yaroslavl region, I arrived back to St. Petersburg, at that time Leningrad. And she says: "We sit in this hut, in which he shot the corner, and now he comes up - under the ceiling height, in this black robe, such huge blue eyes ... And everything," Vladimir Mishchenko recalls.

Father Sylvester then could not assume how this meeting will turn the life of Aunt Natasha, which he knew since childhood. When at home was gathered by the fellow soldiers of his parents, she was always larching.

"Always a person is very assembled, very attentive, very extraordinary. It could not know about her, she was always under the vulture" secretly "," Archimandrite Sylvester says.

Steel woman

Photographer Ivan Chernov - the former scout itself. When I got acquainted with Mother Adriana, this name was given to the Malysheva after the time he was trying to learn how to learn about her service at the front. But in vain.

"I asked her:" Mother, where did you see the victory? "" In Germany. "I say:" And where in Germany? "When she said that in Potsdam, I ask:" Mother, and where have you been? What part? "- She says nothing to me," Ivan Chernov recalls.

Natalia Malysheva

At this time, Chernov and himself was in Potsdam, but he did not have to intersect there with the Malyshev. As it turned out later, she served in the headquarters of Marshal Rokossovsky. Even at the front from her, she had to hide when she went to intelligence.

Here it comes out of the part in the form, pretends to go to the neighboring division. On the way it is disguised as a simple dress to go beyond the local one. Rokossovsky instructed to penetrate the nearest village as a connected. One of the families handed over the army information from partisans. Scout, who went to them the day before, did not return. It was impossible to wait. But Malysheva, this important task fails. I did not understand the password.

"And the password will stand a rake with teeth to you, it means that you can not enter, and if they are the back side, then come in, then there will be a connection. She all found it, she saw these rakes - they are a rib. And then turned back, and suddenly Rake turned ..., "says Ivan Chernov.

Not one hour she will sit in the bushes, guessing what it means and is it possible to enter, but still returns to the headquarters. On the way will be sobering from what is happening with anything. What will be her surprise when, seeing her, everyone will rush to her hugging and kissing. It turns out that the owner of that house surrendered to the Germans, and they were waiting for a connected in ambush.

Journalist Anna Danilova half a year painstakingly recorded all the stories of Mother Adriana. Then the unfulfilled task of Rokossovsky is not the first miracle that happened to her in war.

"The first miracle that she called the event that happened on the very first days of her stay at the front is a battle near Moscow, and it was the case when she saved the wounded, carried him out of shelling," says Danilov.

On the verge of life and death

At the front Malyshev take not immediately. She moved to the third course of the Moscow Aviation Institute, when the war began. The whole group they come to be recorded by volunteers in the army, but they are wrapped - too young. It seemed that the war would not last long, and the Germans would quickly disassemble. Soon it becomes clear that it is not.

In October 1941, all volunteers are already accepted for the defense of Moscow. Natalia Malysheva, who is engaged in horseback sports, jumps with a parachute, shoots and knows how to provide first medical care to go to intelligence. In the first task, she will save his wounded one-panel.

Great Patriotic War, 1941. Photo: ITAR-TASS

"Strips up to white linen so that in the snow it is imperceptible, runs in the footsteps where it lies in the wounded, she ran up quickly, it's not particularly visible on the white snow, and therefore she had shelling. And back how to crawl? Suddenly it began to snow, Suddenly, and such a solid white wall that Natasha Malyshev was accustomed to her own one-welded one, and they hardly had a place covered with an absolutely white snow wall, "said Anna Danilov.

Malysheva turned out to be a find for intelligence. It turns out that she also speaks German. In Stalingrad when soviet troops They took the city, Malysheva walks through the streets and encourages the remains of the Nazis to surrender. They scream to her: "Traitor!"

More than once on the front, it goes one on the cabinet of German telephone lines. Once, such a babble barely did not become the latter for her.

"And her German found it when she listened. At that moment he got a shot in his back with a gun from the German. She realized that she was shot now - she was caught in the crime scene." I remember, "I remember now, Cropped, took a gun to shoot. "He noticed her movement of his hand, pulled out this gun, took himself, and then suddenly he says:" In general, I'm not fighting with girls, go out of here. "She did not believe in her Inadequate salvation, inadvertent joy, and says: "I, crouching, waiting for bullets in the back, began to go away from him towards the forest." And he says to her: "Stop". She says: "I stopped, he took out a gun and says: "Take your weapon, otherwise you will shoot your own, if you return without a tabler weapon," says the artist Alexander Shilov.

She will hide this story for many years. Will hide and how after the war went through camps for prisoners of war and was looking for that officer that did not kill her.

After the war

This is what I saw a scouting mother. Artist Alexander Shilov. She called himself a modern monk. Did not reject from the war, continued to be interested in a secular life. This portrait was written in 2010 - two years before her death.

A.M. Shilov "For Faith and Fatherland"

"I was so, you know, pleasantly surprised. She understood that it was necessary to sit well, she was, of course, it's hard, still age at 90 years old. She went to these orders, the order is, I say, the memory of the war, she He tells the young girl of the believer, as fought. And you know, even to this picture are often suitable, just do not think that I brag, look and pray for her, as on the icon, they say: "There is some kind of light." Indeed From Mother Adriana there was some kind of inner light, such spiritual inner light, "says Alexander Shilov.

Anatoly Prasoli once was in her submission. Officially, she left the intelligence, returned to the Moscow Aviation Institute, and at the end came to the Design Bureau. Rocket engines were developed here.

When years years later, the former colleagues learned that she refused the career and went to the monastery, they did not believe, thought - rumors until they read in the newspapers.

"We were, in general, surprised and even, maybe," says the Deputy Head of the Division of the Design Bureau of Chemical Engineering. A.M. Isaeva Anatoly Prasolov.

In the 50s in the design bureau, Malyshev is headed by the development of martial rockets Earth-air. In the office it does not catch it: personally monitors all experimental work. She is the only woman-boss - again, as on the front line, tries not to give way to men.

"We worked, as a rule, not on the water distilled, the components sometimes spoiled and appearance, and clothes. And so this case was remembered that after the next test on the stand base, we look, say: "Natalia Vladimirovna ..." - tights were unsuitable. I had to work in such extraordinary for female personnel conditions, "- recalls prasoli.

Mystery of personal life

Scout and photographer Ivan Chernov after acquaintance with Mother Adriana found some inconsistent in her biography. As a leading constructor of rocket engines, she often had a "Baikonur" cosmodrome in the team of Sergey Queen. Veteran explains it so ...

"The only one who took Korolev took on the test, only her, one woman. Imagine? I understood like this: he could not take it at certain points. So she misunderstood and hit. This way - they do not leave back, and all Time is working, "says Ivan Chernov.

Sergey Korolev and Mother, 1950. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Most of the information about it is still closed. Perhaps parallel to work in the design bureau, it continued to serve in intelligence.

But we managed to find out that Mother Adrian was married. She did not like to talk about it, until the end of the life kept a photo of his first bridegroom - Mikhail Babushkin. Even in the cell of his picture stood in a prominent place.

"He died tragically in the first months of war. He was a pilot, like his father - the hero of the Soviet Union. And so significant in her life was this man, so important were their relationship that it was, in general, him and not She could forget, and already married, she realized that she could not give such a feeling to her husband, "explains Anna Danilov.

She will live with the colonel husband only four years. It will break up in 1949. She got used to loneliness since childhood. Natalia Malysheva is a junior child in the family, and the child is unloved. Mother waited for a boy when the second daughter was born, he lost interest to her.

"The path of her was quite fast in the church, the spiritual path. She called, when something was incomprehensible. For what a confession need, why they are involved, for which the same compassion is needed, and how often it is necessary to go to the temple, and how often To the priest, "says Archimandrite Sylvester.

Appeal to faith

It was after the meeting with the father of Sylvester, she starts to go to the temple from time to time. It is forever from work and politics in which it was involved in the late 80s, and there are no thoughts. But during the illness, chained to bed, it will look different in a different way.

"One of the first obedience she was - to sell on the street of the book. Well, imagine: Major, yes with such an experience, a member of such a number of state commissions and so on, this is a respected woman. And suddenly, in the midst of the Christmas Street at a trailer with books, yes still in the handkerchief. The first months she put out the handkerchiefs on the oldest months so that no one would know her: what if some of the acquaintances would notice her. Well, it will be incomprehensible what she does in the saleswoman. Then I got used to it, I was glad to fulfill my obedience. without worrying that someone can learn it, "says Anna Danilova.

The sale of books then brought considerable money to the reviving monastery, and there it was necessary to build everything from scratch.

Natalia Malysheva

Pühtitsky farm - she came here. IN soviet years There was an architectural institute. In the early 90s, this place was returned to the church again. Here Natalia Malyshev and tonsured in the nun. This house has become famous for all Moscow. Barely about unusual intelligence officers wrote in one of the newspapers, and journalists and ordinary people reached.

"When Mother Adriana turned 89, I told the girls in the editorial board:" Let's call, "I called, the voice of the young, intonation is very lively:" Of course, "says, come. And it is very good that you are after May 9 call, because all those who are in front of May 9, they are in a hurry in such. "Everything, faster-faster, rather, rather, write down," and those who are after May 9 calls, they can only write down, to think about everything. So come. "Amazing absolutely clarity of mind, young, wretched intonation. Excellent use mobile phone "I also need to understand, after all, 89 years old," recalls Anna Danilova.

And in the first meeting, when they began to ask her, write, it became clear that it was necessary to record the entire history of her entire history.

Video interview records Mother Adriana are unique. There is no professional television light, on the heroine either the layer of makeup, but they do not notice it, barely begins to talk. The nun recalls the first saved.

"He was broken by a leg. One was at all, his hands were intact. I tied it to him and say:" We will crawl it, only you help me how can you, hands and foot, otherwise I will not swallow you. "Once again Will, God forbid, once again will be - I'll go again, only in order to see this gratitude to this in the eyes ... it is a feeling that he ... He will die even after that, but before death, know that he is not thrown, but What came after him - just for the sake of this could even risk, and all, "says the nun Adrian.

Love and patience

December 2009 Moscow. Mother Adriana is awarded the Order of Andrei for the First-Called for faith and loyalty. Hall is worth it.

"But she was not particularly prepared, and, in general, somehow she, you know, did not brave general - before her was, he also awarded him, but the hall got up a few times and just standing applauded, so these were some such Words that people have so hooked, "recalls Vladimir Mishchenko.

I was impressed then the speech of an unfamiliar mother and another premium laureate - President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Ekucur. Hero of Russia, a combat officer, then spoke with her all evening.

Mother Adriana

"They talk, he is a handsome young man, and she is such all the fragile some kind of person in this wheelchair, but as if there are two identical people - two warrior, two soldiers. Since then, they have such a very thin, know, communication : He always congratulated her, sent her telegrams when he could (understand, because of his employment), came, passed to her some of his home, from his relatives, products: some cheese, her home bread - this is accepted East, and only the closest, most native people do this, "says Mishchenko.

December 12, 2011 Pehhthetsky farm was flooded by people: everyone came to congratulate the mother Adrian with the 90th anniversary. She was preparing for a long time: I disassembled photos, finished the book of memories, called all friends. She seemed to have a premonition that this holiday was last for her. In two months it did not become.

"There are such beautiful prayers:" Lord, give me peace of mind to meet everything that will bring me the coming day. Give me all the wilts of your holy for every hour of this day, in everything. To mention and support me, no matter what I will receive news during the day, let me take them with a relaxed soul and firm conviction that your entire holy will of yours. In all the words and the affairs of my people led by my thoughts and feelings in all unforeseen cases, do not let me forget that everyone is sent to you. Teach me directly and reasonably act with every person, no one is confusing and not overgrown. Help me move the fatigue of the coming day and all events during the day. The lead of my will and teach me to pray, believe, hope, tolerate, forgive and love. "This is not a miracle?" - says the nun Adriana.

She would never believe that he would finish her life in the monastic cell. Intelligence, in the profession of which the main dignity is to be able to be silent, at the end of life he said so that the priests listened to her. Once in childhood, Natalia Malysheva said that God says her mouth. It was in the temple next door to the house, where Mom once led her. She did not remember her words, but he remembered the attention he was then surrounded by her nuns.

Then only, already becoming a Mother Adriana, she realized that it was the first sign over. And for this fate it has been saved from death more.

Lenin's brother Dmitry Ulyanova, Marshal Rokossovsky, Korolev designer, Patriarch Alexy II, Cosmonaut Gagarin, Pauers pilot and US presidential candidate McCain incomprehensibly crossed off the life of the Russian nun

And tomorrow was war

Today, her name is Mother Adrian, but she permits to contact her and in the worldly name: Natalia Vladimirovna.

Natasha Malysheva was born in 1921 in the Crimea, where her father, Vladimir Petrovich, served as a Zemsky doctor. Muscovite has become on the coincidence. Pope had a friend - the doctor Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov. Brother Ulyanova-Lenin. In the year, when Natasha was born, Dmitry Ulyanov moved to Moscow. At first, he worked in drug addresses, then in the Kremlin clinic, headed by Medical Protection at the Red Professors Institute.

A few years later he invited to the capital and a friend.

Dmitry Ilyich Mom said: "Nina Nikolaevna, on such as you, the world is holding", "recalls Natalia Vladimirovna. - Cute, simple person. I had at home, I saw all our icons - Mom was religious. And never talk about any conversation about the world revolution, nor about the brother.

In the soul of a little Natasha and religiosity, and militancy. As a child, he often walked with mom in the temple - in the passionate maiden monastery at the Tver Gate. In the late 1920s, he was turned into a museum of union of boots, and in 1937 he was demolished. Today at this place is the cinema "Russia".

And she was preparing for a military path: he fired, he was swimming and gymnastics, ran skiing. He fond of equestrian sports, she had an idol: a cavalid girl Nadezhda Durov, the first woman in the Russian army.

I really wanted to imitate her, "recalls Natalia Vladimirovna. - The horse learned to ride and generally prepared himself to one profession: the defenders of the Motherland.

He graduated from the nurses courses, passed the norms of the GTO. But, as for all adolescents of their time, the cherished dream was still not a cavalry, but the sky. And at the aerosloj did not accept, at the medical school they said that there are problems with the left eye. Announced: You can not be a pilot, but it can be a parachute.

And she jumped with a parachute. But only once.

Horror! - Smiling Natalia Vladimirovna. - Did not like. And decided to go to the Armored Academy with friends.

In tankers, she also did not take it: in tank troops - no virgins. Angry. And went to aviation. Well, if you do not fly on airplanes, then at least create them.

In the rear of the enemy

Russian newspaper:Mother, and you remember the first day of war?

Mother Adriana:Yes, as I remember: Sunday, from the street horn - he almost shouted in the window - the war! Momkeg green, and I ... It sounds strange, but I can say, delighted. I so reasoned: Hitler Europe captured and a fight with the Germans. But we cannot attack, the USSR peaceful country.

WG:The fear was not at all?

Mother Adriana:Why - was. I was very afraid that the war would finish quickly and do not have time to do. There was experience: when the Finnish campaign began, I tried to go to the army, showed a nurse in the military registration and enlistment office. And they tell me: we will manage without you, learn while.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he ran through Military Academy - wanted to translate there. But only one of our company succeeded, and even that because he had a father's red army commander. I was not taken due to the fact that the girl. I terribly insulted: what it is, the second time does not take on the war!

Well, if so, I think I'll go volunteer. And in the military registration office again refused, they said - learn. True, by October, when the German came close to Moscow, in the Komsomol district, I looked at me in a wonderful, but gave direction to one of the divisions of the national militia.

WG:What does it mean: in a wonderful?

Mother Adriana:Yes, it was bad in the city, there was no light, from the windows of institutions, documents flew, cars in Moscow went mostly to the East. Yes, and I have already enthusiasm dubbed. But still decided: I will not go to evacuation, I will defend Moscow. I understand: now in such a difficult to believe, but there was time. And we were exactly such.

WG: And repressions, fear?

Mother Adriana:You know, I still ask myself: Well, how was it possible? So many repressed, so many destroyed churches. Nevertheless, my militia division is 11 thousand volunteers who have not subject to calling. For the week formed! We had children and repressed, and priests who were also suffering. I personally knew two people who had the fathers who were shot. But no one was tailed anger. And these people have risen over their insults, everyone threw and went to defend Moscow, many of whom she hurt.

And in the rear was awesome: the plants moved, 12-hour working day, without days off! I have never been a fan of Soviet power, I did not enter the party. And he could go to evacuation with the institute in Almaty: there is a sun, fruit. But how to leave when you understand: and here, on the streets of Moscow, the Germans will walk?!

I think I will not finish my life safely, if I do not explain that our gust. The people himself rose, they did not think about themselves, and everyone knew what we were going.

WG: And how were the intelligence?

Mother Adriana: She asked for nurses, but took into divisional intelligence. Our explosion commanded a legend man Nikolai Mikhailovich Berendev. He got the Hero of the Soviet Union on Finnish. I approached them. All our were armed with old three-year old, with them still fought in the world. And one of the few gave me a self-loading rifle - SVT. They knew that I was well shooting.

More German kneader well. When in questioning prisoners worked as a translator, some Germans even took for their own.

WG: What - and without an accent?

Mother Adriana: There was a small accent - the upper silesia. It's from the Father, he knew the language well. Grandmother on the paternal line - Petrovskaya German. And at the school, the teacher of German allocated me, separately it was engaged in me.

WG: They say about you: 18 times in the rear of the enemy, the tasks received from Rokossovsky. 28 Panfilovtsev fought on your eyes, and one day one brought the wounded scout.

Mother Adriana:Our units went to the Germans in the rear on the front of the front, where Panfilovtsy fought. They really performed a feat, but it was a mistake to write about 28 fighters. The heroic fought all the division.

At the same time, during the battle for Moscow, and there was a case with the wounded. In the evening, two of our went into exploration. We stayed on the suspension: if anything is to cover with fire. Long waited. Only one returned, it wounded easily. I brought important evidence that the Germans are accumulated there. And he said that his partner was wounded in the thigh, he could not go. So far, our solved what to do, I went for the second.

Found in the footsteps. Scout named Jura Smirnov, he was so happy, thought he would not return for him. The wound is heavy, the harness pulled, bandaged. What to do? It can not go. Well, I hooked my belt for his belt, dragged. He helped me crawling hands. And then a miracle happened: the snow went, I didn't see such a thing. Glory to you, Lord! Slitted down the slope to the river, somehow slipped past the Germans. I was on the slope of it up, but here we arrived, pulled out. It was December 19, 1941.

After 8 months, I was sent to three-month courses. Very secret. After them, he served in army intelligence. Our 16th army and commanded Rokossovsky. He often instructed us before tasks.

Our tasks changed: worked with agents in the German rear, went beyond the front line connected. After all, when the Germans realized the scale partisan WarThey very much pressed the guerrilla and underground workers, and they could only go to the sabotage at night. But day to move under the guise of civilians, collecting and transferring data to them was difficult. And we did it.

Once I almost got captured. The German caught at the telephone wire, who heard, disarmed, attached a pistol to the head. I was preparing for death, prayed: Let it be better to kill, but only not captivity. Pushed in the back, also my gun threw the gun with the words: Take it, and then they shoot their own.

Yes, he went 18 times behind the front line. War graduated from Lieutenant.

And again into battle

Marshal Rokossovsky Mother Adriana calls his best teacher.

Rokossovsky said: some want to command, and therefore they are fond of rudeness, they want to be afraid of them. And I want to love me, "the nun recalls. - I have learned an excerpt, working with subordinates - I have it, and the subordinates appeared.

After the victory until 1949, Malyshev served in Poland, in the Upper Silesia.

And in 1949, Polish President took to Stalin with a request to send to Poland Glavkom by the Northern Group of Troops Marshal Rokossovsky. Polish leadership offered him the post of defense minister. And they were transferred to Potsdam, - Mother sighs sadly.

Soon an officer of the military intelligence of Malysheva, by that time the captain was already going to his homeland. He thought to enroll in medical, but eventually returned to MAI. She was enrolled immediately on the third course.

When specialization began, submitted an application for a new direction: rocket engines. She was denied. Egregated: why? Unofficially explained: specialization is not feminine, only men scored in the group. As she achieved his own - the chronicles are silent. Mother Adrian itself does not tell about it either.

But, as they managed to find out the "RG" correspondent, in a statement addressed to the MAI leadership, Malyshev's student with bribing spontaneity wrote that he wanted to create engines for missiles, because from childhood he was fond of Tsiolkovsky. And added: "And if you think that this is not a female profession, you must remind you: during the war, I perfectly coped with all my male duties."

Professor, putting out laughter, decided: Well, how to take such rocket engines ...

Distributed to the NII-88 in the sublip, now it is the city of Korolev.

There was several KB, "recalls Natalia Vladimirovna. - legendary personalities led: Isaev, Sevrooke. And the whole rocket led Korolev himself.

Ballistic rockets were created there, including P-7. In the fall of 1957, Korolev launches the first satellite into orbit. And on April 12, 1961, Gagarin flies into space.

Engineer Designer Malyshev participated in the creation of engines, which she calls "jewelry": for maneuvering and braking in orbit. Including for the Gagarinsky "East".

Simply put, our engines are all that will remain from the ship after the steps will be twisted, the mother smiles.

Fate brought with legends. Her leader Alexey Mikhailovich Isaev is not only the creator of engines for spacecraft, orbital stations and interplanetary spacecraft. In the history of aviation, he entered as the designer of the Move of the first in the USSR of a full-fledged missile fighter "BI-1".

Korolev remained in her memory harsh, but at the same time a caring leader.

Madly devoted to the case, a lot of good did for people, - recalls the mother.

Khrushchev saw: during the shooting with anti-aircraft missiles at the Kapustin Yar polygon, he took his head. Rockets effectively overtake the goals, Nikita Sergeevich thoughtfully: Well, why do we need these planes?!

After these words, "black times" began for the Air Force, the reduction was followed.

In addition to the involvement in the flight of Gagarin, the development of Natalia Malysheva has not had an impact on the course of history. She participated in the creation of engines for the Rocket of the anti-aircraft missile complex C-75 Peter Grushin.

"Seventy-fifth" for air defense is something like a Kalashnikov machine for infantry. On May 1, 1960, the US intelligence officer U-2 was shot down over the Sverdlovsk Rocket Rocket, Powls Powls. And when in 1962, during the Caribbean crisis, such a rocket destroyed the next U-2 - the third world world was barely.

However, these are famous pages of world history. It is less known that in Vietnam S-75 in 1967 he hit the American fighter, who piloted someone John McCain. The pilot catapults and captured. After 5 years, the pilot was released from Vietnamese prison. In history, he entered as the main candidate from the Republicans at the presidential elections in 2008. The defeat from the Democrat Obama was defeated. It was that the rocket changed both, and the fate of McCain - that is, in fact, "wrote" the pre-election platform of a persistent "hawk". Some believe that because of this he did not become president.

For the S-75 rocket engine, I was awarded to the Order, - Mother says modestly.

From the Supreme Council to the Monastery

In 1993, her, already a pensioner, was invited to a district party: it is necessary to run into the Supreme Council. They say, we have a block of party and non-partisan, and you are a brilliant sample of a modern woman.

There was no competitors, so it would have passed.

But the Lord Savior - I would be in the "shot" Supreme Cover, concludes a nun.

In fact, the Lord changed her fate even before the elections. As Mother remembers, she by that time she had already traveled in the monasteries, and essentially burst between the burden of spirituality and social work. And with health began problems: legs, spine.

I decided that this was God's punishment for silent between the temple and secular, she says. - And finally came to the temple.

At first helped to equip the foundation of the Holy Uspensky Pühtitsky Women's Monastery in Moscow. And then remained here to serve as a simple nun, accepted by Tesig under the name of Adrian.

She knew Patriarch Alexy II.

"I can not imagine from whom the Holiness I learned about me," the nun admits. "When I came here, I didn't tell anyone about the war or about missiles." And the invitation from the Patriarch to the celebration of Victory was a surprise.

Reception for spiritual persons - Frontoviki Patriarch arranged in Danilov Monastery. And unexpectedly announced: "Major retired Adrian's nun!"

- I think - how, from where, Mother still worries, remembering the meeting. "And I'm starting to push me to Patriarch." It came up. He congratulated, handed a medal, a gift. And after that, always congratulated on the holidays, passed gifts. Three times a year to us in the monastery and came himself. When it came to his blessing, he welcomed with a smile: "A, Mother Adriana, how do you feel?"

By the way, about the fact that she is Major, the nun found out on the phone: they called from the military office, they said - awarded the title. And only recently handed Major's epaulets.

And recently, another one was added to the number of her titles and titles: Mother became the winner of the premium "for faith and loyalty", established by the Foundation Andrei First-Called. The icon of the apostle, a diploma and a sign that repeats the symbols of Petrovsky Order Andrei First Called, was awarded in the Kremlin. Hall applauded her standing.

The touched Mother thanked Krotko Monastic:

- God's mercy.

They loved to go to intelligence

In the collapse of the third communist division of the national militia, the fighter Natasha Malyshev was considered a talisman.

And there were grounds: she made his first feat of December 19, 1941, that is, immediately after arriving at the forefront. Without an order, on his own initiative, it was inserted behind the front line and literally pulled off the wounded intelligence officer. About the feat was written in a western front unit of the Western Front.