In the spring of this year, Hieromonk Maxim (Khivintsev), a priest of the Goro-Altai diocese, the rector of five temples on Lake Taurus and the Bishop's Compound on the island of Patmos in the village of Chemal, died. What changed the life of a wealthy Soviet man who moved to Siberia from Anapa and became a priest at 51? How did he manage to build a temple in a small village with a population of 600 people, where there are noticeably more tourists than pilgrims?

Once the Oyashinsky boarding school was located in chicken coopers, and the institution itself was called a madhouse. Now he has a new building, which has all the conditions for working with pupils, a cozy platform in the territory and a pool is being built. But the most important thing is that inside. The joy of a couple of steps that suddenly turned out, playing with dolls as an achievement, spiritual songs about the homeland and the perfect order as a habit.