Saving me by God

I recently turned 91 years on earth. Remembering what has lived,
I realized that all this could only be by God’s mercy, because all
My life has been linked to many cases of death.
Only God could save me from them.

FIRST CASE
During the war, I, as a minor, together with my grandfather and
grandmother on the approach Germans evacuated by train from near,
but we drove away Not far. The Germans bombed the railroad. The
train stopped near a small village. It’s not just our train with
refugees,but also military personnel, including the wounded.

People let the good people spend the night. Awake from the roar
in the morning A bomb that exploded near the house. Saw standing
in front of the window boy, apparently the son of the mistress at
home, with drops of blood on his face Wrist-stacked windows from
the window. Something was screaming grandmother running intoThe room
I slept on the floor under the window. Grabbing me, my grandmother
pulled out, I don't understand anything on the street. Everyone
was screaming and somewhere They fled, and the bombs were not far
off. That's how my grandmother pulled me to some kind of moat,
where they were already bent, clinging to the bottom of this Moat,
a lot of different people. Many people burned at home. All the time
loudly roared planes and continuously exploded nearby bombs.

SECOND CASE
How long I lived with my grandfather in the barracks of Moscow State
University I do not remember, apparently it was 3 days at the end of
which my grandfather bought me a ticket home to Balashov and gave me
suitcase with shopping for grandmother Luba. After a few hours of stay
I'm tired of looking out the window on the train, and I went to stand
in the vest. So as the door in the tambour, the smokers opened the
outside, then when they left, I too Opened the door and began to admire
the passing area. I was blowing a pleasant breeze, but to feel it more,
I took two hands for the handrails and stepped down to stand a foot
step below, but not stepped on the step completely with his foot, and
so flew down suddenly. But, thank God, I did not let out of my hands,
but one my foot became drag on the mound, and the body and the other
leg hung on the steps.

Where did my strength come from, then a young boy, I don't know, but
I managed to pull up and get into the tambour. Keep your the body, when
sliding hands on the hand from the fall, at this age The boy can't, only
God could save me. What thoughts flashed at that moment- I do not remember,
but I understand now that God did not say yet for my life at that time and
helped me up. However,There was no sandal on one leg, it was already far
behind the train,had to throw another, and go to the train in the socks.
What helped that I was born to my grandmother from my grandfather a gift-
- shoes on a small heel in which I dressed and so drove to Balashov, where
I was met on a telegram from Grandfather Lenya Grandma and Mom.

The THIRD incident occurred when I was studying in Saratov, when during the
I went on vacation for the summer to my grandparents in Karelia, where my grandfather
Lena after appealing to Lopukhov (Deputy Minister of Forestry)
the economy of the USSR) was provided with the work of the head of a small
group of forestry. Grandpa once before the prison with him worked, and
therefore the appeal to Lopukhov gave the opportunity to get work is normal,
in contrast to its work in the construction of MSU together with former
prisoners, the same as him, who lived together in Barracks. So, with a
transplant in Moscow and Leningrad, I am with new ones then impressions,
rolled in a crowded car from Leningrad to meet his own destiny.

The car was stuffy and crowded, so I was almost all the time
in a vestibule with other passengers who also spent the time before arrival
at my station. Many people smoked, including me, already addicted to
Papyrosam. There were a lot of people in the tambour, and so I stood on the platform between
Cars, holding on to the handrails. The site of the old cars was nothing more
as the usual two metal sheets lying on top of each other, with
fences of handrails on both sides, so that the handrails from one car almost
In contact with another. The interval was small and when the train became
brake before stopping at the station, then the cars began to approach
and I was swung so that I got into the rupture of the handsome instantly
clamped Me's between them. What happened to me at this time, I no longer
remember, so How lost consciousness.

I woke up lying on the shelf in the compartment of the conductors. Apparently standing in People brought me there tambure. Everything was like a fog, heard
the words Two guides about me that I should be handed over at the nearest
station.

I didn't feel the pain, my condition was like a dream, and so in
answer to their words to say, anything I could not, and that's all for me then
Something was impossible to understand. In this fog for me, I'm almost
I didn't see anything, but I heard the words, one guide, apparently
older in age, for another, what I need to do with a compress, and for
This is what I need to wear below the abdomen of the pelvis with water moistened.

That's what they did, taking off my pants, but when they started filming me
cowards, then the other - the young shone and refused to do it, so
that for me, the older guide did carefully, saying the other:
“Go away, I’ll do it myself!” Lying in this state some kind
time, I began to gradually regain consciousness and could already move, and
So the guides said they'd take me to my station
ticket. In the meantime, they decided to put me in the car on the shelf with the help of others
people. I had a seat on the ticket, but I was found free
the shelf, although all the shelves were already occupied by sleeping people, since it was already
night, so quickly passed the time incomprehensible to me from the moment
What happened.

I didn’t feel the pain, so I was immersed in a sleepy state.
When I woke up from him, he felt a languid pain. There was a car
Weak light from the yellow light bulb and was very stuffy from the sleepers around
people. I decided to get up, but almost fell from the sharp pain, legs
Were sifttered, but I resisted and hardly walked a little through the car. Pain
became much less, and so I lay on the shelf again and fell asleep.
Awake when he began to shine, the pain subsided, began to walk a little
along the car, but it was still difficult because of the weakness of the body and legs.
Soon I was helped to go to a deserted station, as it seemed to me
In the beginning, since a man also came out of another car. He looked at
I'm questionable, as I was moving around the apron on my feet
Awkward. Walk about 3 kilometers to the village where my grandfather worked,
I couldn't do it. When we got close, I told him what had happened to me,
He said he would like to get to my grandfather and called his name. To my
The stranger said that he knew my grandfather and told him about me.
So, two hours later, I was already sitting with my grandfather in the cart
that the horse I soon brought us to the house where my grandfather and
grandmother lived.

FOURTH CASE
Next year on vacation I again went to Karelia to the city
Pitkjarant to his grandfather and grandmother together with her sister Olya,
where his grandfather worked at the paper mill. There's a sister and her
friend who had boat, we somehow went on a boat to rest along the rocky shore
Ladoga. Sister with a friend climbed ashore and went to tear the flowers
on the forest glade, and I decided to swim and jump for this from a high
cliffs near the boat. Began to call the girls to admire them
my jump, but they refused to go to watch, so I have
The desire to jump into the water is gone. Then I went down ashore and
I went to the place where I was going to jump. What I saw for
I became scary: in the water, where I wanted to jump the whole place, a
little below the surface of the water, was filled with moulds of barbed wire,
Seems to have remained after the war with the Finns. If I jumped like
Usually upside down, I wouldn't be able to surface, entangled in it. So I
I later learned about it from people.

FIFTH CASE
For the fifth time, God saved me during heart surgery when after I opened
bleeding that could not stop, and therefore had to be removed and stopped
bleeding, but how it was done, I don't know. Passed
a lot of time (about 7 hours) and during it in a separate room
The exodus of my operation was waiting for the exodus of my operation by
his wife and two of our sons: Alexey and Andrew. O the course of my operation
was informed by them on radio dynamics and, of course, they
Worried about me and going through more than me during that time. Before
I was completely calm and when I was fully told I asked for a time to pray.
What I did when I got on my knees, and with his heart turned to God with
gratitude and a request for his wife and children.

SIXTH CASE
A few years ago, there was an interesting case with me when I
went to the barn. It was dark there. To make it lighter I decided to open
inside the barn second half of the door and became hand to pity the valve
The door that was at the top of the joint. My fingers at the same time
They felt something soft. When I opened the door, it became light and I
I saw a joint at the top, along it, lay a large venomous snake.
I took a shovel and killed her. Why she didn't bite me, it's a big question.

THE SEVENTH CASE
Death as a transition to God His world, some who revived describe how
A journey through a dark space resembling a tunnel at the end
which they enter the area of the unearthly white light. I succeeded
see this light and stay alive. It happened in the car
disaster, when in a collision with the oncoming car worked
airbag, and I received a sudden blow to the chest in
heart, and smaller and in the head. I didn’t remember these details.
Then, everything was for me suddenly. There was a blow, loss of consciousness
and I I saw a white light in front of me. Except for the white light, I didn't
see anything and
Didn't feel anything. How long the light lasted: seconds or minutes
I don't get it. I didn't feel the pain. When I woke up I saw the one who ran
up to I'm the people. Later I realized that during the light I did not feel
my body, So my soul was not with the body at that time together.

EIGHTH CASE
On July 29, 2026, I lost consciousness. It happened like this: I sat
down on The edge of the bench, felt normal. What happened next, I
I don't remember at all. After a while, I found myself lying
on the back, not knowing where I am. After trying to move, I
felt something was wrong with the head. Tune with her hand,
I found she was in the blood. I don't remember getting to the front
door At home, that it cost me a lot of effort.

When I got home, I immediately called my son. From the call of the ambulance I
Refused. Instead, my son called me a taxi, and I went to the hospital
Emergency Department. In the hospital, I was treated with a wound, made
X-rays of the head and prescribed medication. I was told that the fracture of the skullNo. However, the torment of treatment began.