In Orthodox publications of the 19th–21st centuries you can find biographies of the monk Abel (in the world of the peasant Vasily Vasilyev), who lived at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century. In many of them, the monk Abel appears before us as a true Christian ascetic, who possessed the gift of prophecy and suffered from the authorities for his predictions. A number of sources refer him to the ascetics of piety and even to the reverend fathers. Some authors believe that his predictions had and continue to have important for the historical destinies of Russia.
What do we know for sure about this man? Before trying to answer this question, without considering the works of those authors who wrote about Abel, based on various kinds of information about him, let us consider the published primary sources of information about the life of the monk Abel.
Monk Abel
1. Published primary sources of information
1) Memoirs of Abel’s contemporaries
These are brief memoirs of A.P. Ermolov, recorded from his words by a certain relative of his, the famous poet and hero of the war of 1812 D. Davydov, the memoirs of the famous historian M.V. Tolstoy, “Notes” of I.P. Sakharov, as well as the memoirs of L. N. Engelhardt. Separately, it is necessary to point out the brief mention of the predictions of Abel by Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov).
2) Documents and their fragments
A) An article entitled “The Soothsayer Abel. New authentic information about his fate”, published in the magazine “Russian Archive” in 1878, represents, according to the anonymous author, “an extract from the” archival “Case of the peasant Vasily Vasilyev, who is in the Kostroma province in the Babaevsky monastery under the name of Hieromonk Adam , and then called Abel, and about the book he composed. Started on March 17, 1796, 67 sheets.”
The article provides: 1) Extracts from a secret letter from Governor General Zaborovsky to Prosecutor General Count A. N. Samoilov in connection with the arrest of the monk Abel dated February 19, 1796. 2) Protocol of the interrogation of Abel dated March 5, 1796 in the Secret Expedition. Investigator A. Makarov. 3) Judgment about Abel's imprisonment Shlisselburg Fortress. 4) Rescript from Emperor Paul to Prosecutor General Prince A.B. Kurakin on the release of Abel from the Shlisselburg fortress dated December 14, 1796. 5) Excerpts from Abel’s letters to Emperor Paul, Prince A.B. Kurakin, Metropolitan Ambrose. 6) Excerpts from letters from Metropolitan Ambrose of St. Petersburg to Prosecutor General Obolyaninov dated March 19 and May 29, 1800 and from other letters and documents.
It should be noted that this author, outlining the life path of the monk Abel, provides some information about him without references to documents. The reliability of this information is problematic due to the fact that it is not always infallible. Thus, the author incorrectly indicates the year of death of the monk Abel - 1841 (p. 365).
B) In another anonymous article “Foreteller Monk Abel” in the magazine “Russian Antiquity” for 1875, the following works of the monk Abel were published: 1) “The Life and Suffering of the Father and Monk Abel” (with notes containing “some mystical fabrications” (p. 415 –416)), written, according to the author of the article, apparently by himself. Let us note that the authorship of the “Life” belonged to Abel among a number of historians who wrote about Abel, there was no doubt. 2) A fragment from the treatise “The Life and Vitae of our Father Dadamius,” which is a version of the presentation of the “Life” of the monk Abel. Dadamius was the name with which Abel sometimes signed his letters. This new name (“Dadamei”), according to Abel, was given to him by “the spirit.” According to the author of the article, in this case he has no doubt that this work belongs to Abel. 3) An excerpt from Abel’s treatise “The Book of Genesis” - an interpretation of the first book of the Bible. 4) The author points to a notebook in his possession that belonged to Abel, where “on 28 pages there are various symbolic circles, figures with letters Slavic alphabet and accounts, with them there is a brief interpretation.” Two of this kind of symbolic tables from another similar notebook of 64 pages are published on pp. 428–429, and Abel’s interpretation of them is on pp. 427 in a footnote.
The author also points to Abel’s treatises at his disposal: 1) “The Legend of the Being that is the Being of God and Divinity,” 2) “Genesis Book One,” 3) “The Church Needs of the Monk Abel,” as well as 12 letters from Abel to the Countess P. A. Potemkina for the years 1815–1816 and Abel’s letter to V. F. Kovalev, manager of Countess P. A. Potemkina’s factory in Glushkovo. Excerpts from letters to Countess P. A. Potemkina are given.
IN) Another issue of the magazine “Russian Antiquity” publishes documents collected by N.P. Rozanov: 1) Presentation of the contents of the Consistory certificate to St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow about the monk Abel dated 1823. 2) Order of St. Philaret on the assignment of monk Abel to the Vysotsky Monastery in Serpukhov dated October 6. 1823 3) Copies of Abel’s letters to a certain Anna Tikhonovna and spiritual father Dorimedont, 1826. 4) Presentation of the report on Abel’s escape from the Vysotsky Monastery and presentation of the contents of other documents.
3) Publications of historians based on the analysis of documents
A) M. N. Gernet’s book “History of the Tsar’s Prison” (Vol. 1), which sets out some information about Abel, extracted from the “Case of the peasant Vasily Vasilyev, who was in the Kostroma province in the Babaevsky monastery” (Archive of the era of feudalism and serfdom. VII . No. 2881) (P. 109) and documentary data from the archives of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in Suzdal (P. 174).
B) Important information about the date of Abel’s death is given in the work of A. S. Prugavin, who first published secret documents about prisoners of the Savior-Euphemius Monastery in Suzdal.
As for unpublished documents, we will point out, in addition to the “Case of the peasant Vasily Vasilyev, who was in the Kostroma province in the Babayevsky Monastery,” and excerpts from Abel’s “Book of Genesis” (Central State Archive of the October Revolution. F. 48. Item 13).
2. Arrests and predictions. Documentary data
Little is known about the life of monk Abel from published documents. According to the research of M. N. Gernet, based on the analysis of documents, “he (Monk Abel) came from peasants and was a serf of Naryshkin. Having received his freedom, he became a monk and made a pilgrimage to Constantinople. He was not only literate, but also a writer of mystical religious manuscripts. During interrogation, he testified that he had a vision: he saw two books in heaven and wrote down their contents<…>In the manuscript, “copied from the heavenly book,” they found both a deviation from Orthodoxy and a crime against “Majesty.” Catherine's sentence and decree indicate that the author of the manuscript is subject to the death penalty, but, by the mercy of the Empress, he is sent to eternal imprisonment in the Shlisselburg fortress. From here Paul freed him. He spent the time from May 1800 to March 1801 in the Peter and Paul Fortress, from where he was exiled to the Solovetsky Monastery, but in the same year (October 17, 1801) he was transferred from prisoner to monk.” Finally, Nicholas I “imprisoned Abel in the Spaso-Efimevsky Monastery.” Thus, according to the data cited by Gernet, Abel was imprisoned at least three times, and his imprisonment was carried out at least twice by the highest command.
The most detailed documents have been published related to the circumstances of Abel's first imprisonment in 1796. Some materials of the 1796 case that are important for us will be specifically discussed below. It is important to note that, according to historians, at this time there is not a single case of falsification of investigative materials by security agencies, similar to the known falsifications of the NKVD-KGB in the twentieth century.
As for subsequent conclusions, the published documentary materials concerning the causes and circumstances of these events, as well as the life of Abel in general, are very scarce. We present what we know from published documents in connection with the circumstances of these arrests.
Abel’s secondary imprisonment in May 1800 followed the discovery of a certain “book” and “sheet” written by himself under scandalous circumstances during his presence in the Valaam Monastery (report of Metropolitan Ambrose of St. Petersburg to Prosecutor General Obolyaninov). After familiarizing themselves with the contents of this leaflet, the Obolyaninovs received the highest order (from Paul I) to imprison Abel in the Peter and Paul Fortress. As the anonymous author of the article in the “Russian Archive” writes, “Abel’s prediction about the death of Paul the First probably dates back to this time.” There is no evidence of this prediction and information about the true reasons for bringing Abel from the Valaam Monastery to St. Petersburg and his imprisonment this time in published documents.
In March 1801 (after the death of Paul I and the accession of Alexander I), Abel was transferred by order of Metropolitan Ambrose to the Solovetsky Monastery for imprisonment, where no later than October 17 of the same year, by decree of the Holy Synod, he was released and became one of the monastics of this monastery. Based on published documents, it is impossible to determine either when Abel left the Solovetsky Monastery or the circumstances of his departure. According to the same anonymous author, “released, Abel wrote a third book foreshadowing the capture of Moscow by the enemy, for which he was again imprisoned for many years in the Solovetsky Monastery.” Unfortunately, this information is not supported by the anonymous author with any documentary references.
He further writes that in 1812 Abel was removed from the Solovetsky imprisonment by the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Prince Golitsyn. Abel’s release followed the order of Emperor Alexander I of November 17, 1812, after which, as this anonymous writer writes, he began to lead a wandering life, “lived in the Kursk province with the famous rich man Nikanor Ivanovich Pereverzev, and settled in Moscow, in the Sheremetyevo hospital, then at the Trinity of Sergius.”
Placed by order of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, in the Serpukhov Vysotsky Monastery on October 24, 1823, Abel escaped from it in 1826 and lived again in the world, which was the reason for his forced imprisonment in the prison of the Spaso-Efimievo Monastery “for humility” by order of Nicholas I in the same year; here the monk Abel died in 1831 (for the problem associated with the date of his death, see below).
If we summarize the available published documents as a whole, then among them there is no reliable data about Abel’s predictions that came true. This kind of information, however, could be withdrawn during publication in the 19th century for censorship reasons.
3. Predictions and arrests. Memoirs of contemporaries
The memoirs of contemporaries give us the following picture of the life and predictions of the monk Abel.
1) Prediction about the death of Empress Catherine II and the details of her death. First arrest
In the stories of A.P. Ermolov we read: “Once at the table of Governor Lump, Abel predicted the day and hour of the death of Empress Catherine with extraordinary faithfulness.” The memoirs of D. Davydov also talk about the exact prediction (day and hour!) of the death of Catherine II. Davydov's text repeats word for word the text of Ermolov's stories. In the memoirs of M.V. Tolstoy we read: “After that he (Abel) left the island of Valaam and moved to the Nikolsky Babayevsky Monastery, here he compiled and wrote his first prophetic legend: in it he predicted the death of Empress Catherine II, for which he was immediately demanded to St. Petersburg and imprisoned in the casemate of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The prediction soon came true.” We find similar information about Abel’s prediction of the death of Catherine II and his subsequent placement in the Peter and Paul Fortress in the memoirs of L. N. Engelhardt, with the only difference that, according to Engelhardt, the arrest took place after a personal meeting with the Empress. However, we do not find any direct evidence of this prediction in the memoirs of contemporaries. As we will find out later, Abel, in connection with his prediction about the date of death of Catherine II, was imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress, and not in the Peter and Paul fortress. This prediction itself, as will become clear later, was false in its content and did not come true, or we are dealing with several of his predictions about the time of the empress’s death, mutually exclusive in content.
2) Prediction of the death of Paul I. Second arrest
In Ermolov’s stories we read: “Having returned to Kostroma, Abel also predicted the day and hour of death of Emperor Paul. Conscientious and noble police officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ustin Semenovich Yarlykov<…>hastened to inform Ermolov about this. Everything that Abel predicted literally came true.” We read the same thing literally in the memoirs of D. Davydov. In Engelhardt’s memoirs we read: “After the death of the empress (Catherine), the emperor ordered, freeing him, to present him to him; Then he predicted to him how long his reign would last; the sovereign at that very moment ordered him to be imprisoned again in the fortress.” The circumstances of Abel’s second imprisonment were completely different, as we saw above when analyzing the documentary materials. In the memoirs of M.V. Tolstoy - “At dinner with the Kostroma governor Lumpa, Abel predicted the time and details of the death of Emperor Paul. The soothsayer imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress was soon released with the same rights.” As it turned out above from the documents, Abel was placed in the Peter and Paul Fortress under Paul I and from there he went not to freedom with the same rights, but in conclusion to the Solovetsky Monastery, where he remained for some time, perhaps about six months in prison.
There are no direct eyewitness accounts of Abel’s predictions in the memoirs about the circumstances of the second arrest. The contradictions in the content of the memories with each other and with documentary facts are obvious.
3) Prediction about the war with Napoleon. Third arrest
“A few years later, Abel again made a prophecy about the entry of Napoleonic hordes into Russia and the burning of Moscow. For this prediction, he was imprisoned in the Solovetsky Monastery, but from there he managed to be released, using the patronage of Prince A. N. Golitsyn, the constant patron of Quakers, Illuminati, Masons and other mystical persons,” wrote M. V. Tolstoy. L.N. Engelhardt: “A year before the French attack, Abel appeared before the emperor and predicted that the French would enter Russia, take Moscow and burn it. The Emperor again ordered him to be imprisoned in the fortress. After expelling the enemies, he was released.” As follows from the documents, Abel was released in 1812 not from the fortress, but from the Solovetsky Monastery. “Monk Abel, who predicted the capture of Moscow by the French, said that the time would come when the monks would be driven into several monasteries, and other monasteries would be destroyed,” wrote Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov). Finally, we repeat once again that, according to the anonymous author of the article, Abel predicted the capture of Moscow by the French long before the invasion, for which he was sent to Solovki for many years of imprisonment (see above). Again, in the memoirs of contemporaries we do not find a single direct evidence of the prediction and we find contradictions in the information provided and inconsistency of the information provided with the facts.
4) Prediction about the death of Alexander I, the uprising on Senate Square on December 14, 1825 and the accession of Nicholas I
“He (Abel) submitted a petition for admission to the Serpukhov Vysotsky Monastery, where he entered on October 24, 1823. Soon Abel's new prediction spread throughout Moscow - about the imminent death of Alexander I, about the accession to the throne of Nikolai Pavlovich and about the riot of December 14. This time the soothsayer was left without persecution. His last prophecy came true, just like the previous ones,” wrote M.V. Tolstoy. According to Engelhardt, “since 1820, no one has seen him (Abel), and it is not known where he went.” There is no mention of this prediction in the memoirs of Davydov and Ermolov. Once again we see contradictions in information and a lack of direct evidence.
5) Prediction about the reign of Nicholas I
“Abel was in Moscow during the accession of Nicholas to the throne; he then announced about him: “The serpent will live thirty years,” wrote D. Davydov. Other memoir writers do not mention this fact.
6) Prediction about one circumstance of the coronation of Nicholas I
“In the spring of 1826, he (Abel) was in Moscow. The coronation of Nicholas I was already being prepared. Countess A.P. Kamenskaya asked him; will there be a coronation and will it be soon?<…>Abel answered her: “You won’t have to rejoice at the coronation.” These words spread throughout Moscow, and many explained them in the sense that there would be no coronation at all. But their meaning was completely different: Countess Kamenskaya was subjected to the wrath of the Tsar because on one of her estates the peasants disobeyed, outraged by the cruelty of the manager, and the Countess was forbidden to come to the coronation,” wrote M. V. Tolstoy.
Finally, in the “Notes” of I.P. Sakharov, it is only indicated that Abel wrote down his “visions on small notebooks, of which there are many floating around the world.”
Thus, among the memoirs of contemporaries we do not find a single direct evidence of Abel’s predictions. The inconsistency of information given by Abel’s contemporaries, and, on the contrary, their repetition of each other word for word and the discrepancy between the information and real facts indicate a low level of reliability of these sources.
Of all the predictions known from memoirs, only one, the last, had nothing to do with the fate of the powers that be. All of them, except the last two, were published during crisis situations in the history of Russia: 1796 - the end of the reign of Catherine II; 1800 - end of the reign of Paul I; the eve of Napoleon's invasion (possibly a year before the invasion, according to Engelhardt); 1823–1825 - the eve of the uprising on Senate Square. The question is: what were such prophecies that sounded on the eve of dramatic events supposed to contribute to - pacification in the state or sowing chaos?
As we have seen from the memoirs of contemporaries and from published documents, little is known reliably about the predictions of the monk Abel and, in general, about his personality. And yet, based on the most thoroughly published materials from the case of the Secret Expedition of 1796, his writings and some other materials, it is possible to form a fairly accurate idea of the personality of this man.
4. True face
I'm not a thief or a spy, I'm actually a spirit.
V. Vysotsky
I am the Chairman of the Pound. I always sat. I sat under Alexander the Second “Liberator”, under Alexander the Third “Peacemaker”, under Nicholas the Second “Bloody”... I charge inexpensively: one hundred and twenty rubles a month in freedom and two hundred in prison. One hundred percent increase for harmfulness.
I. Ilf and E. Petrov
The materials of the memoirs testify mainly to the fact that Abel was endowed with the gift of prediction and, perhaps, was a saint of God. However, his own writings and some documents tell a different picture.
1 . Demon's charm. Abel, according to his statements, received his revelations “from above,” hearing voices or seeing visions. What character were they? During his first arrest during interrogation in the Secret Expedition of May 5, 1796, Abel expressed doubts about the Divinity of their nature and at the end of the interrogation he even admitted that the voice that told him about the reign of Catherine II and Paul I was demonic. Thus, it can be argued that even according to his words, his acceptance of the mentioned “revelation” on faith and the prophetic predictions that he made and disseminated on its basis were at least a manifestation of frivolity on his part. However, during the interrogation he stood up for the authenticity and Divinity of at least one of his “revelations” (see below).
However, in “The Life of Monk Abel”, written by Abel himself, apparently much later, the attitude towards the revelations for which he first came under investigation is again reversed - it is stated that he wrote a book “wise and wise” , which was the reason for his first arrest and imprisonment. Note that the “revelations” received from the voice and recorded in this book were indeed the reason for the arrest.
Metropolitan Ambrose of St. Petersburg, who spoke with him on May 29, 1800, also spoke about the delightful nature of the “revelations” to Abel: “...From the conversation (with him) I did not find anything worthy of attention, except for the insanity in his mind that was revealed in him, hypocrisy and stories about their secret visions, from which the hermits even come into fear. However, God knows.”
As is known from Orthodox ascetic literature, uncontrolled, uncritical acceptance of demonic visions and voices and even simple contact with them often ends in mental damage for the ascetic. The memorandum of Metropolitan Ambrose, quoted above, also speaks of Abel’s mental damage. Abel’s abnormal behavior in the Peter and Paul Prison is indicated by a report from collegiate adviser Alexander Makarov to Prosecutor General Obolyaninov dated May 26, 1800.
Numerous published fragments of his works eloquently testify to the peculiarities of Abel’s thinking - his mental damage. Let's give just a few.
1 ) A fragment from the “Life of Dadamius” is nothing more than a statement of his biography, since the new name Dadamei, according to Abel, was given to him by the “spirit”, who also called him “the second Adam”. The presence of fantastic delusions of grandeur intertwined with heretical distortions of faith is obvious. “He (Dadamius) is in all the firmaments and in all the heavens, in all the stars and in all the heights, in the very essence of them rejoicing and reigning, dominating and ruling in them.”<…>after this he “will reign for a thousand years,” and then “throughout the whole earth there will be one flock and one shepherd in them, then the dead will rise.”
2 ) We see a sad picture of the mixture of gross heresy and delusional constructions of a person who has lost sensitivity to logical contradictions in the text of Abel’s interpretations of the book of Genesis (“Book of Genesis”):
“In the beginning were created firmaments and firmaments, worlds and worlds, powers and powers, kingdoms and states, and then everything else: both creating and reflecting nine real years and two-ten and one spiritual. In real years, think about everything and arrange everything, but in spiritual years, create everything and establish everything.<…>Then create man and above man and above man in every world; and the number of all created people is the same as the number of all worlds: create the God-man in your own image and likeness. Create them husband and wife, give them a name: Gog and Magog, Adam and Eve; Gog and Adam are the husband: and Magog and Eve are his wife; Gog and Magog were first created: and then Adam and Eve were created. Gog and Magog and their seed lived on the earth three thousand and six hundred years before Adam; Gog's land and all his family, all old America and all new America. Adam's land and all his family, all Asia and all Europe and all Africa - this is the land<…>Gog and Magog himself lived on earth for all the years of his life, four hundred and two years and four months, then he died and was buried. They all had a hundred and twenty and two children, male and female; and they lived on the earth their entire life, as stated above, for twelve thousand years: their life was simple, in the likeness of cattle and beasts. They were given a natural law, they do everything according to their conscience: but only this generation will be enlightened at the end of the age with faith and piety. Then the entire race of Gogs and the entire race of Adams will die. And other centuries and other generations will arise, and they will live like this forever and unceasingly, and there will be no end to it, so it is. Amen". Note that, according to modern psychopathology, texts of this kind indicate the presence of a severe, so-called paraphrenic delusional disorder of thinking.
However, judging by Abel’s correspondence with Countess Potemkina and other letters, we do not find anything like that in his letters. It is possible that we are dealing with letters written in a state of remission of processes called in psychiatry fur-like, or recurrent schizophrenia. For these forms of disorders, alternation of light intervals and periods of rather gross exacerbation of symptoms is typical. In the recurrent form, during light intervals, a person suffering from this form of mental disorder can behave like an absolutely healthy person.
It seems that a less probable, although not excluded, explanation for the above-described features of the thinking of the monk Abel, reflected in his writings, may be an attempt by him to purposefully create an image of himself as a seer-fool. The presence of genuine foolishness is excluded by the presence of gross heretical distortions of the teachings of the Church both in the above fragments and in his other writings.
2 . False prophecies. We have reliable evidence that Abel was a false prophet, that is, he gave prophecies in the name of God that did not come true. Let's give examples.
1 ) In both versions of the autobiography - in “The Life and Sufferings of the Father and Monk Abel” and in the text of “The Life and Life of our Father Dadamius”, written by him, there is a precise indication that Abel-Dadamius should live 83 years and 4 months. In the research of historians M. N. Gernet and A. S. Prugavin, who analyzed archival data about prisoners of the Spaso-Euphemius Suzdal Monastery, the exact date of Abel’s death indicated in the documents of the monastery is given - 1831. Abel’s date of birth is 1757. Thus, he lived 74 years, and not 83, as he said in his prophecies.
2 ) Prosecutor General Prince Kurakin, in a letter addressed to Emperor Paul I, wrote that Metropolitan Gabriel of St. Petersburg reproached Abel for his predictions about his future bishopric.
3 ) According to the interrogation protocol of the Secret Expedition dated March 5, 1796, Abel testified that the following details of the reign of Emperor Paul I were revealed to him “with a voice like Moses the seer of God,” which he was ordered to bring to the attention of the Empress and which he, it seems, introduced and in his prophetic book, the contents of which he distributed: “When her (Catherine II) son Pavel Petrovich reigns, then the whole Turkish land will be subdued under his feet, and the Sultan himself, and all the Greeks, and they will be his tributaries; and 2nd, tell her, when this is conquered and their false faith is destroyed, then there will be one faith and one shepherd throughout the whole earth, as it is written in the Holy Scriptures<…>Now go and tell Pavel Petrovich and his two youths, Alexander and Konstantin, that the whole earth will be conquered under them.” The purpose of writing the book was to convey the contents of this “prophecy” to the empress and heir. The contradictions between its content and historical events that took place later are self-evident.
4 ) During interrogation in the Secret Expedition on March 5, 1796, it was found out that Abel predicted in writing that “a son (Paul I) would rise up against her (Catherine II). The defendant’s attempts to prove that he wrote one thing and meant something else led nowhere, the “prophet” ended up in the Shlisselburg fortress, and the “prophecy” was not fulfilled.
5 ) The protocols of the same interrogation in 1796 indicate Abel’s prophecy, the content of which was received by him “from above”; He especially insisted on the Divinity of this “revelation” even in the face of the formidable investigator of the Secret Expedition. We quote Abel: “His mother (Paul I), Ekaterina Alekseevna, our most merciful Empress, reigned for 40 years: for this is what God revealed to me.” Meanwhile, the years of her reign are well known: 1762–1796 - that is, a total of 34 years of reign.
Thus, we see signs of the situation that was punishable in Old Testament times death penalty. The prophet who dares to say in My name what I did not command him to say, and who speaks in the name of other gods, such a prophet must be put to death. And if you say in your heart: “How can we know a word that the Lord has not spoken?” If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, but the word does not come true and is not fulfilled, then it was not the Lord who spoke this word, but the prophet who spoke this out of his boldness - do not be afraid of him(Deut 18:20–22).
3 . Heresy. According to the report about Abel from Lieutenant General Zaborovsky to Count A.N. Samoilov dated February 19, 1796, “an interrogation was made on him, but without great success, except for the dark testimony about a certain Jew Theodore Krikov, whom Abel recognized as the Messiah and whom he saw in Orle." During the interrogation carried out somewhat earlier by the Right Reverend Paul, Bishop of Kostroma and Galich, Abel called himself “the forerunner of Gog.” Bishop Pavel also testified to Abel's faith in the already accomplished coming of the Messiah expected by the Jews in the person of a certain Jew Theodore Krikov and about his journey to meet with Krikov in the city of Orel. Bishop Paul qualified Abel's views as heresy.
Thus, in general, Abel’s attitude towards Christianity appears before us as vague, and some connection between his views and Judaism becomes almost obvious. The conductors and disseminators of quasi-Jewish ideas at that time, as is known, were the Freemasons. Note that among the works composed by Abel there was a table of “Planets of Human Life” - judging by the name, one can assume that astrology was not alien to him. Some similarity between Abel’s views and the views of the Freemasons is also indicated in the article about him in the “Russian Biographical Dictionary”.
His above comments on the Old Testament history of the origin of mankind are obviously heretical in nature. There is clearly a gross violation of the dogma of original sin. Abel's eschatological prophecies also diverge from the Orthodox tradition - chiliastic ideas are evident in different versions. The views of the monk Abel on the origin of the human race and the future destinies of mankind are reminiscent of some Talmudic legends.
4 . Anti-government orientation of predictions. The predictions of the monk Abel, which were widely publicized, according to the memoirs of contemporaries (see above), sounded quite rarely, and related almost exclusively to future events in political life states. At the same time, the temporary the connection between the appearance of these prophecies and crisis situations in the history of Russia. The anti-government nature of his predictions, which could serve as a weapon in the psychological anti-government struggle, cannot but be striking. In 1796 or a little earlier, he published in samizdat in the form of a prophecy a direct political provocation against Catherine II (“a son (Paul I) will rise against her (Catherine II)”) and a prediction about the future prosperity and triumph of Orthodoxy under Paul I (see . higher). During the interrogation in the Secret Expedition on March 5, 1796, the seditious version about the fall of Peter III as a result of a conspiracy on the part of Catherine II (“fall of III Emperor from his wife”), set out in the “book” of Abel, which he distributed.
If you believe the memoirs of D. Davydov, in 1826 he called Nicholas I the word “snake”. All this suggests that Abel could be used by interested parties to create certain moods in society - whether he “prophesied” himself or whether rumors about his “prophecies” were purposefully spread before the events or after the fact.
It was precisely this politically oriented nature of his predictions that greatly worried government officials. For example, during the interrogation on March 5, 1796, and even after the sentencing, everything related to the above-mentioned provocative prediction of Abel was again discussed in detail and the question of Abel’s connections with other persons was repeatedly raised. Active activities on the part of the Freemasons at that time to influence Paul I and their reliance on him in political plans are well known (the Novikov case). Historians testify to the active participation of Freemasons in all political crises, during which and in connection with which Abel’s predictions were spread.
Monk Abel (in the world Vasilyev Vasily) was born in 1757. He passed away in 1841, leaving behind many prophecies. He made predictions of the main events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Abel predicted the death of the Romanov family, the consequences of the October Revolution, and the course of the Great Patriotic War. He was called Nostradamus of Rus'. Not all handwritten documents have survived to this day, but prophecies about the fate of Russia in the 21st century remain.
Monk Abel
Russian Orthodox monk Abel was born in the Tula province, into a large family. From a young age he was engaged in carpentry. After a serious illness, he decided to go to a monastery, for which he did not receive parental blessing. At the age of 28, he took a ransom from his master Lev Naryshkin and secretly left his native place. Leaving his wife and three children, he reached the Valaam Monastery, where he took monastic vows.
In the Nikolo-Babaevsky monastery he wrote his first prophetic book, in which, among other events, he predicted the death of Catherine the Second in 8 months. This was followed by a prediction about the murder of Paul the First. For his prophecies, he was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned. By order of Nicholas the First, monk Abel was detained and imprisoned in the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in Suzdal. There he lived out his last years. The monk was buried behind the altar of the St. Nicholas Church of this monastery.
The books have not been preserved in the form they were during the life of the prophet. Numerous fragments remain. Deciphering the surviving materials leaves many questions. Abel's prophecies concerning the October Revolution of 1917, the Great Patriotic War and modern Russia in the 21st century.
Book of Prophecies
At all times, there were clairvoyants and soothsayers at the imperial court. Abel’s main work was “The Terrible Book.” In it he outlined observations, truths and predictions. Because the events on these pages were not always rosy, the monk spent almost 20 years of his life in the dungeons of prisons and many years in prison in monasteries.
The tsarist government tried as best it could to protect the people from communicating with the seer. For the same reason, Abel's manuscripts were mercilessly burned. Only parts of the manuscripts have survived to this day., random excerpts. There are prophecies concerning the end of the world. Abel predicted that in 2896 “the world will come to an end.” According to the prophet, the Antichrist will appear on earth, who will plunge the world into thousand-year darkness. “After 1050 years, the dead will rise from their graves, and renewal will come. Humanity will be divided into good and evil. The good are destined to live forever, and the evil will sink into oblivion, become dust,” he writes in his book.
Accurate predictions about the end of the world are lost. Historians have only small fragments of this manuscript.
Until now, Abel's predictions have come true. In his handwritten works, he not only indicated the dates of death of the monarchs, but also indicated the cause of the sad events. The monk depicted his visions using intricate pictures that his contemporaries had to decipher.
It is impossible to know whether the predictions about the apocalypse are true. But prophecies about Russia in the 21st century can be compared with current events. Recently another prophecy of Abel became known. He predicted the mass migration of people from their native lands, and assigned Russia the role of the center of the new world. Exact date the events are not indicated, but the mass flight of peoples from the territories of military conflicts is already taking place.
By comparing historical events with prophecies, historians have found that Abel accurately predicted:
- military coup of 1917;
- Russia's war with Napoleon and the burning of Moscow;
- dates of death of monarchs;
- fall of the Romanov dynasty;
- The Great Patriotic War.
Historians have not yet been able to decipher the exact meaning of the prophecy, which sounds like this: “The new Batu will raise his hand. But Russian power will rise, Batu will collapse, and will not survive.”
Russia in the 21st century
The main topic prophecies about modern events became the saying “And people will leave their lands and go on the run, and the Russian State is destined to become the center of a new world.” According to predictions, troubles in Russia will end when the “chosen one of God” becomes the head of the state, and the soothsayer predicts a three-time reign for him.
The great gift of the clairvoyant was confirmed during his lifetime by the events he predicted. Nobody doubts this now. The course of modern events can be interpreted with some differences. But the essence remains - the elder predicts a great future for Russia.
According to the prophecy, the Russian Federation will be led three times by a short ruler. Abel does not reveal his name prematurely for fear dark force sake,” but calls him this: “the second Boris, only much more powerful.” Previously, predictions about Boris Yeltsin came true.
Scientists had to collect information bit by bit in order to reveal Abel’s predictions to the world. But many figures in the political arena remain not fully disclosed in the predictions. Abel wrote about a “marked” ruler (M. Gorbachev), and a ruler with unclean skin (presumably Zyuganov). The seer mentions the Lame One, who will try to maintain his power at any cost; about the Golden Lady and the Potter. Who these figures are will probably be revealed by the future.
To date, the meaning of predictions about Russia in the 21st century has not been fully revealed. Predictions of monk Abel for the period from 2017:
- division of power between 10 rulers (it is possible that the collapse of the state into separate entities is predicted);
- the appearance on the political arena of a faceless sword-bearer who will shed a lot of human blood (he will also provoke the collapse of the country);
- the steering wheel of power will be in the hands of a green-eyed native of the swamp;
- a long-nosed man who will be hated by the people will gather a multi-million army of defenders;
- a maiden with golden hair will drive three chariots;
- Chaos and troubles will be defeated by “Gonchar” when the reins of power belong to him.
There is an opinion that 2017 will mark the beginning of dramatic changes in the history of the state.
The word “crisis” is not mentioned in the manuscripts, but Abel writes that difficult trials await Russia. The end of this period is predicted to be the end of 2017. Many of the events are still ahead, and the future will show whether the prophecies will come true.
The image is associated with the President of the Russian Federation. The prophet predicts that under the rule of V.V. Putin, Russia is destined to become a great power and the center of the Orthodox faith. The elder did not give a name in his predictions, allegedly out of fear of dark forces.
Abel wrote that under the reign of the Titan, “a great destiny is destined for Russia.” In his writings, the monk calls Putin “God’s chosen one,” who has the power to stop the troubles in the country, bring light, and “his name is destined threefold for the history of Russia.”
Abel also mentions that there will be two impostors, but they will not be able to sit on the royal throne, since they are not “messengers of God.” But they will break through to power and rule, although not at the head of the state. The future is depicted as a time of trials that will lead to prosperity. The elder does not reveal the name of the future savior of Russia.
The prophecies found can be interpreted in different ways, and time will tell whether they will come true with accuracy. A fact that is difficult to argue with is that President V.V. Putin really did everything to recognize Russia as the center of Orthodoxy and became a powerful figure in history.
The meaning of the number in Abel’s drawings - 2024 - has not been fully deciphered. What will happen this year, humanity will be able to find out quite soon.
Russian prophet monk Abel Prophecies during the monarchy of Catherine II and Paul I Predictions under the kings Alexander I and Nicholas I Historical chronicles about the Russian monk Abel The life and suffering of the father and monk Abel About the life of Abel. Magazine "Russian Antiquity", 1875 Soothsayer Abel. Magazine "Russian Archive", 1878 Interrogation of the monk Abel in the office of the Secret ExpeditionMonk behind a book Painting by Tropinin Vasily Andreevich, Contemporary of the Russian prophet monk Abel Prophecies of Abel during the reign of Catherine II and Paul I Prophet in his Fatherland The life and deeds of Abel during the monarchy of Catherine II and Paul I Abel (Vasily Vasiliev) 03/18/1757, Akulovo village, Tula province - 11/29/1841, Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery, church prison, Suzdal “His life passed in sorrows and cramped conditions, persecutions and troubles, in fortresses and strong castles, in terrible judgments and in difficult trials...” “The Life and Sufferings of Father and Monk Abel,” published in 1875. “These books of mine are amazing and amazing, and those books of mine are worthy of surprise and horror” Abel - Paraskeva Potemkina There were and are prophets in our fatherland, but only: “as you know, our Parnassus is Yelabuga, and the Kastalsky stream is Kolyma.” So the Russian Nostradamus had a hard time.
But even among them, the monk Abel, who received the nickname “Prophetic”, stands out with his mystery, tragedy and surprisingly accurate and terrible predictions. The life of this monk does not fit into the usual framework of dates of birth and death. Yes, this is not just life, but real living.
As he himself boldly defined it, writing in the 20s of the 19th century, twenty years before his death, “The Life and Suffering of Father and Monk Abel.” The audacity is that the lives belong to the saints. So, by calling his biography this way, the monk seemed to equate himself with the saints. The first who dared to call his life-writing a life was the rebellious and frantic archpriest Avvakum. But he consciously went against church reforms and thereby opposed himself to the church.
Monk Abel did not oppose himself to the church; moreover, he always remained a deeply religious person who revered the church. The archpriest and the monk-foreteller were united by a firm confidence in their destiny, a readiness to follow to the end the path determined from above, accepting torment and deprivation. Habakkuk - sending curses and thunderous anathemas to the tormentors, Abel - resignedly and patiently. But both did not deviate one step or word from their prophecies. And you have to pay for this at all times.
It is no coincidence that this phrase “life and suffering” appeared. Abel's prophecies concerned Russian history over a huge period of time - from the reign of Great Catherine to Nicholas II. And perhaps further.
According to some statements - until the very end... But first things first. And first, let’s open the plump volume of the dictionary of biographies of Brockhaus and Efron: “Abel is a monk-fortuneteller, born in 1757. Peasant origin. For his predictions of the days and hours of the death of Catherine II and Paul I, the invasion of the French and the burning of Moscow, he was repeatedly imprisoned, and in total he spent about 20 years in prison. By order of Emperor Nicholas I, Abel was imprisoned in the Spaso-Efimevsky Monastery, where he died in 1841.”
This is what Abel wrote about himself in “Life,” published in the magazine “Russian Antiquity” for 1875. “This father Abel was born in the northern countries, in the Moscow region, in the Tula province, Alekseevskaya district, Solomenskaya volost, the village of Akulovo, in the year from Adam seven thousand and two hundred sixty and five years (7265), and from God the Word one thousand and seven hundred and fifty and seven years (1757). His conception was the foundation of the month of June and the month of September on the fifth day; and the image of him and the birth of the month of December and March at the very equinox: and the name was given to him, like all people, on the seventh of March.
The life of Father Abel was assigned by God eighty and three years and four months; and then his flesh and spirit will be renewed, and his soul will be depicted like an Angel and like an Archangel.” “...In the family of the farmer and horse-driver Vasily and his wife Ksenia, a son was born - Vasily, one of nine children.” Dates of birth are indicated by Abel himself according to Julian calendar. According to Gregorian, he was born on March 18, almost “at the very equinox.” He predicted the date of his death almost accurately - the seer died on November 29, 1841, having lived 84 years and eight months. The peasant son had enough work around the house, and therefore he began to learn to read and write late, at the age of 17, working as a carpenter in a waste trade in Kremenchug and Kherson.
Although he was a farrier “by specialty,” he himself wrote: “You don’t pay much attention to this.” However, there is another reason for his constant long absences to earn money. He later told about it himself during interrogations in the secret chancellery: Vasily’s parents married Vasily against his will to the girl Anastasia, which is why he tried not to live in the village. In his youth he suffered from a serious illness.
During his illness, something happens to him: either he had some kind of vision, or he made a vow that if he recovered, he would devote himself to serving God, but, having miraculously recovered, he turns to his parents with a request to bless him to enter a monastery. He was probably already inclined towards a different life; again, it is no coincidence that in his own words he “was a simple man, without any training, and with a gloomy appearance.” The elderly parents did not want to let the breadwinner go; they did not give their blessing to Vasily.
But the young man no longer belonged to himself, and in 1785 he secretly left the village, leaving his wife and three children. On foot, feeding on alms, he reaches St. Petersburg, falls at the feet of his master - actual chamberlain Lev Naryshkin, who served at the court of the sovereign himself as chief of horsemen. It is unknown what words the fugitive peasant admonished his master, but he received his freedom, crossed himself and set off. The future predictor walks through Rus' and gets to the Valaam Monastery.
There he takes monastic vows with the name Adam. After living for a year in the monastery, he “took a blessing from the abbot and departed into the desert.” For several years he lives alone, struggling with temptations.
“Lord God allow great and great temptations to befall him. Many dark spirits are attacking nan.” And in March 1787 he had a vision: two angels lifted him up and said to him: “Be you the new Adam and the ancient father Dadamei, and write what you saw; and tell me what you heard. But do not tell everyone and do not write to everyone, but only to my chosen ones and only to my saints; Write to those who can accommodate our words and our punishments.
So tell and write. And many other such verbs to him.”* *Quote from the text “Life”, magazine “Russian Antiquity”, 1875, (approx.) And on the night of November 1, 1787 (“...in the year from Adam 7295”) he had another “wonderful and wondrous vision,” which lasted “no less than thirty hours.”
The Lord told him about the secrets of the future, ordering him to convey these predictions to the people: “The Lord... spoke to him, telling him the secret and unknown, and what will happen to him and what will happen to the whole world.” “And from that time Father Abel began to know everything and understand everything and prophesy.” He left the hermitage and the monastery and went as a wanderer through the Orthodox land.
This is how the prophetic monk Abel began the path of prophet and predictor. “He walked around different monasteries and deserts for nine years,” until he stopped at the Nikolo-Babaevsky monastery of the Kostroma diocese. It was there, in a tiny monastery cell, that he wrote the first prophetic book, in which he predicted that the reigning Empress Catherine II would die in eight months. The newly minted fortuneteller showed this book to the abbot in February 1796. And he went with the book to Bishop Pavel of Kostroma and Galicia, since the abbot decided that he had a higher rank and a higher forehead, let him sort it out.
The bishop read and tapped his forehead with his staff. Of course, Abel, supplementing his opinion with an expressive phrase that has not reached us in the original, apparently no one dared to write down such a number of swear words. Bishop Pavel advised the seer to forget about what was written and return to the monastery - to atone for his sins, and before that point to the one who taught him such sacrilege. But “Abel told the bishop that he wrote his book himself, did not copy it, but composed it from a vision; for, being in Valaam, he came to the church for matins, just as the Apostle Paul was caught up into heaven and there he saw two books, and what he saw, he wrote the same...” The bishop was warped by such sacrilege - wow, the blue-footed prophet, he was “caught up” into heaven, he compares himself with the prophet Paul! Not daring to simply destroy the book, which contained “various royal secrets,” the bishop shouted at Abel: “This book is written for the death penalty!
“But this did not bring the stubborn man to his senses. The bishop sighed, spat, swore rashly, crossed himself, and remembered the decree of October 19, 1762, which for such writings provided for the removal of monks and imprisonment.
But it immediately emerged in the bishop’s head that “the water is dark in the clouds,” who knows, this prophet. Suddenly he really knew something secret, yet he prophesied not to someone, but to the empress herself. The Bishop of Kostroma and Galicia did not like responsibility, so he threw the stubborn prophet from his hands into the hands of the governor.
The governor, having read the book, did not invite the author to dinner, but slapped him in the face and put him in prison, from where the poor fellow was taken to St. Petersburg under strict guard, so that along the way he would not confuse people with unreasonable speeches and delusional predictions. In St. Petersburg there were people who were sincerely interested in his predictions. They served in the Secret Expedition and carefully recorded everything the monk said in the interrogation reports. During interrogations by investigator Alexander Makarov, the simple-minded Abel did not retract a single word, claiming that he had been tormented by his conscience for nine years, since 1787, from the day of the vision. He wanted and was afraid “to tell Her Majesty about this voice.”
And so, in the Babaevsky Monastery, he nevertheless wrote down his visions. If it were not for the royal family, most likely the seer would have been ruined or rotted in remote monasteries. But since the prophecy concerned a royal person, the essence of the matter was reported to Count Samoilov, the prosecutor general. How important everything concerning the crowned heads was, follows from the fact that the count himself arrived on the Secret Expedition, talked for a long time with the seer, leaning towards the fact that he was a holy fool. He talked with Abel “in high tones,” hit him in the face, shouted at him: “How did you, evil head, dare to write such words against an earthly god?” Abel stood his ground and just mumbled, wiping his broken nose: “God taught me how to make secrets!
“After much doubt, they decided to report the fortune teller to the queen. Catherine II, having heard the date of her own death, felt ill, which, however, in this situation is not surprising. Who would feel good with such news?! At first, she wanted to execute the monk “for this daring and riotousness,” as provided for by law. But still she decided to show generosity and by decree of March 17, 1796, “Her Imperial Majesty... deigned to indicate this Vasily Vasilyev...
put in the Shlisselburg fortress... And the above-mentioned papers written by him are sealed with the seal of the Prosecutor General and kept in the Secret Expedition.” Abel spent ten months and ten days in the damp Shlisselburg casemates. In the casemate, he learned the news that shocked Russia, which he had known about for a long time: on November 6, 1796, at 9 o’clock in the morning, Empress Catherine II suddenly died. She died exactly the same day, according to the prediction of the prophetic monk. Pavel Petrovich ascended the throne.
As always, with a change of power, officials also changed. The Prosecutor General of the Senate also changed; this post was taken by Prince Kurakin.
While sorting out especially sensitive papers, he came across a package sealed with the personal seal of Prosecutor General Count Samoilov. Having opened this package, Kurakin discovered predictions written in terrible handwriting, which made his hair stand on end. What struck him most of all was the fulfillment of the fateful prediction about the death of the empress. The cunning and experienced courtier Prince Kurakin knew well Paul I’s inclination towards mysticism, so he presented the “book” of the prophet who was sitting in the casemate to the emperor. Quite surprised by the fulfillment of the prediction, Pavel, quick to make decisions, gave the order, and on December 12, 1796, striking the imagination of the monarch, smelling of the mold of the Shlisselburg casemate, the predictor appeared before the royal eyes...
One of the first to meet Abel, who left a written testimony about this, was none other than A.P. Ermolov.
Yes, yes, that same Ermolov, the future hero of Borodin and the formidable pacifier of the rebellious Caucasus. But that comes later. In the meantime, the disgraced future hero, who served three months in the Peter and Paul Fortress due to false libel, was exiled to Kostroma. There he met A.P.
Ermolov with a mysterious monk. This meeting, fortunately, was preserved not only in Ermolov’s memory, but was also captured by him on paper. “...A certain Abel lived in Kostroma, who was gifted with the ability to correctly predict the future. Once, at the table of the Kostroma governor Lumpa, Abel publicly predicted the day and night of the death of Empress Catherine II. And with such amazing accuracy, as it later turned out, that it was like a prophet’s prediction.
Another time, Abel announced that he intended to talk with Pavel Petrovich, but was imprisoned in the fortress for this insolence. Returning to Kostroma, Abel predicted the day and hour of death of the new Emperor Paul I. Everything Abel predicted literally came true.” As already mentioned, the heir to the throne, Paul I, was prone to mysticism and could not ignore the terrible prediction, which came true with terrifying accuracy.
On December 12, Prince A.B. Kurakin announced to the commandant of the Shlisselburg fortress Kolyubyakin to send prisoner Vasiliev to St. Petersburg. The audience was long, but it took place face to face, and therefore precise evidence of the content of the conversation has not been preserved. Many claim that it was then that Abel, with his characteristic directness, named the date of Paul’s own death and predicted the fate of the empire two hundred years in advance. It was then, allegedly, that the famous will of Paul I appeared. In some articles dedicated to the seer, his prediction to Paul I is given: “Your reign will be short.
On Sophronius of Jerusalem (a saint, the day of remembrance coincides with the day of the death of the emperor) in your bedchamber you will be strangled by the villains whom you warm on your royal bosom. It is said in the Gospel: “A man’s enemies are his own household.” The last phrase is a hint at the participation of Paul’s son, Alexander, the future emperor, in the conspiracy. I think, based on further events, it is unlikely that Abel predicted Paul’s death, because the emperor showed sincere interest in him, treated him kindly, showed his affection, and even issued the highest rescript on December 14, 1796, ordering Abel to be defrocked at his request and tonsured a monk. Then, instead of the name Adam, he takes the name Abel. So this prediction is clean water literature, not supported by any contemporary evidence.
All other predictions of the prophetic monk are confirmed by interrogation reports and testimonies of contemporaries. For some time, monk Abel lived in the Nevsky Lavra. The prophet is bored in the capital, he goes to Valaam. Then, unexpectedly, the eternal recluse appears in Moscow, where he preaches and prophesies for money to everyone.
Then, just as unexpectedly, he leaves back for Valaam. Finding himself in a more familiar habitat, Abel immediately takes up his pen. He writes a new book in which he predicts... the date of death of the emperor who caressed him.
Like the last time, he did not hide the prediction, introducing it to the monastery pastors, who, after reading it, were frightened and sent the book to Metropolitan Ambrose of St. Petersburg. The investigation carried out by the Metropolitan yields the conclusion that the book “was written secret and unknown, and nothing is clear to him.” Metropolitan Ambrose himself, who was unable to decipher the predictions of the prophetic monk, reported in a report to the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod: “Monk Abel, according to the note he wrote in the monastery, revealed it to me. I am enclosing this discovery of his, written by himself, for your consideration. From the conversation I did not find anything worthy of attention, except for the insanity in the mind revealed in it, hypocrisy and stories about my secret visions, from which the hermits even come to fear.
However, God knows.” The Metropolitan forwards the terrible prediction to the secret chamber...
The book is placed on the table of Paul I. The book contains a prophecy about the imminent violent death of Pavel Petrovich, about which during a personal meeting the monk either wisely kept silent, or there was no revelation to him yet. It is even indicated exact date death of the emperor - allegedly death will be his punishment for an unfulfilled promise to build a church and dedicate it to Archangel Michael, and the sovereign has only as long to live as the letters should be in the inscription above the gates of the Mikhailovsky Castle, which is being built instead of the promised church.
The impressionable Pavel is furious and gives the order to put the soothsayer in a dungeon. On May 12, 1800, Abel was imprisoned in the Alekseevsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress. But he won’t sit there for long - the clouds around Paul’s crowned head are thickening.
The holy fool Ksenia of Petersburg, who, like Abel, predicted the death of Catherine II, prophesies throughout the city the same thing as Abel - the life span allotted to Paul I is the number of years that coincides with the number of letters in the biblical inscription above the gate. People flocked to the castle to count the letters. There were forty-seven letters.
The vow broken by Paul I was again associated with mysticism and vision. Archangel Michael appeared to the guard in the old Summer Palace built by Elizabeth and ordered to build a new one on the site of the old palace, dedicated to him, the archangel. That's what the legends say. Abel, who foresaw all the secret phenomena, reproached Paul for the fact that the Archangel Michael ordered the construction of not a castle, but a temple. Thus, Paul, having built the Mikhailovsky Castle, erected a palace for himself instead of a temple.
Although in the luxurious halls of the palace, biblical motifs seemed to come to life on tapestries embroidered with gold and silver. The magnificent Guarenghi parquet shone with its graceful lines. Silence and solemnity reigned around the palace. A soft, dim light was poured into the palace halls. The appearance of his great-grandfather, Peter the Great, is also known to Paul, who twice repeated the now legendary phrase: “Poor, poor Pavel!” All the predictions came true on the night of March 11-12, 1801.
“Poor, poor Pavel” died from an “apoplectic stroke” inflicted on the temple with a golden snuffbox. The “Russian Hamlet” reigned for four years, four months and four days, not even reaching the age of forty-seven years; he was born on September 20, 1754. As they say, on the night of the murder, a huge flock of crows fell from the roof, resounding with terrifying cries around the castle. They say that this happens every year on the night of March 11-12. The prophecy of the prophetic monk came true again(!
) in ten months and ten days. After the death of Paul I, Abel was released, sent under strict supervision to the Solovetsky Monastery, forbidden to leave it. But no one can prevent a prophetic monk from doing magic.
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“... About the fate of the Russian State, there was a revelation to me in prayer about three fierce yokes: Tatar, Polish and the future one - the Jewish one...”
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Venerable Abel (Vasiliev) Seer of St. Petersburgabout Tsar Nicholas II(V 1800
g.): “Nicholas the Second is the Holy Tsar, similar to Job the Long-Suffering. He 
will have the mind of Christ, long-suffering and dove-like purity. He will replace the royal crown with a crown of thorns... He will be a redeemer, he will redeem his people with himself - like a Bloodless Sacrifice. And he will be betrayed... as once the Son of God was crucified... And the Jew will scourge the Russian Land like a scorpion, plunder its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best people Russians. This is God’s permission, God’s wrath for Russia’s renunciation of its God-anointed One! Or else there will be more! The Angel of the Lord pours out new bowls of tribulation so that people will come to their senses. There will be two wars, one worse than the other. The people are between fire and flame... But they will not be destroyed from the face of the earth, as the prayer of the martyred King prevails upon them!»
About the future Tsar:“And the Great Prince, who stands for the sons of his people, will arise in exile from your House. This will be God's chosen one, and His blessing will be on His Head. He will be united and understandable to everyone; the Russian heart itself will sense Him. His appearance will be Sovereign and Bright, and no one will say: “The King is here or there,” but: “This is He.” The will of the people will submit to the mercy of God, and He Himself will confirm His calling: His name is destined three times over in Russian History. The two Namesakes were already on the Throne, but not the Royal Throne. He will sit on Tsarsky as the Third. In it lies the salvation and happiness of the Russian state. There would be different paths to the Russian mountain again : And barely audibly, as if afraid that the walls of the Palace would overhear the secret, Abel gave the name. Fear for the sake of dark power, let this name remain hidden until time..."
Information about the monk-seer Abel provides S. A. Nilus, referring to the story of Father N. in Optina Pustyn on June 26, 1909: “In the days of the great Catherine In the Solovetsky Monastery there lived a monk of high life. His name was Abel. He was perspicacious, and had a simple disposition, and because what was revealed to his spiritual eye, he announced it publicly, not caring about the consequences. The hour came and he began to prophesy: such and such a time would pass, and the Queen would die, and he even indicated what kind of death. No matter how far Solovki were from St. Petersburg, Abel’s word soon reached the Secret Chancellery. A request to the abbot, and the abbot, without thinking twice, sent Abel to the sleigh and to St. Petersburg; and in St. Petersburg the conversation was short: they took and imprisoned the prophet in a fortress... When Abel’s prophecy was fulfilled exactly and the new Sovereign learned about him, Pavel Petrovich, then, soon after his accession to the Throne, he ordered Abel to be presented before his royal eyes. They took Abel out of the fortress and led him to the King.
“Yours,” says the Tsar, “the truth has come out.” I love you. Now tell me: what awaits me and my reign?
“Your kingdom,” answered Abel, “will be the same as nothing: neither you will be happy, nor will you be welcome, and you will not die a natural death.”
Abel’s words did not come to the mind of the King, and the monk had to go back to the fortress straight from the palace... But the trace of this prophecy remained in the heart of the Heir to the Throne Alexander Pavlovich. When these words of Abel came true, he again had to make the same journey from the fortress to the royal palace.
“I forgive you,” the Emperor told him, “just tell me, what will my reign be like?”
“The French will burn your Moscow,” Abel answered and again went from the palace to the fortress... They burned Moscow, went to Paris, indulged in glory... They again remembered Abel and ordered to give him freedom. Then they remembered him again, they wanted to ask about something, but Abel, wise by experience, left no trace of himself: they never found the prophet...
This is how Fr. finished his story. But Solovetsky monk Avele.
About the monk Abel, I have the following written down from other sources:
Monk Abel lived in the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. There is evidence of him in historical materials as a seer who predicted major state events of his time. By the way, ten years before the French invasion, he predicted their occupation of Moscow. For this prediction and for many others, monk Abel paid with imprisonment. For all my long life, - he lived for more than 80 years, - Abel spent 21 years in prison for making predictions. During the days of Alexander I, he spent more than 10 years in Solovetsky prison. He was known to: Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I. They either imprisoned him for predictions, then released him again, wanting to know the future. Abel had many admirers among the nobility of his day. By the way, he was in correspondence with Paraskeva Andreevna Potemkina. To one of her letters asking her to reveal the future, Abel responded like this: “It is said that if the monk Abel begins to prophesy out loud to people, or to whom to write on charters, then take those people and Abel himself into secret and keep them in prisons or jails under strong guard. “... “I agreed,” Abel further writes, “now it is better not to know anything, but to be free, rather than to know, but to be in prisons and under captivity.” But Abel did not remain abstinent for long and prophesied something in the reign of Nikolai Pavlovich, who, as can be seen from the decree of the Holy Synod of August 27, 1826, ordered Abel to be caught and imprisoned “for humility” in the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery. It must be assumed that the seer ended his life in this monastery.
In another letter to Potemkina, Abel informed her that he had composed several books for her, which he promised to send soon. “These books,” writes Abel, “are not with me. They are kept in a secret place. These books of mine are amazing and amazing, and those books of mine are worthy of surprise and horror. And read them only to those who trust in the Lord God».
They say that many ladies, considering Abel a saint, went to him to inquire about suitors for their daughters. He replied that he was not a seer and that he predicted only what he was commanded from above.
“The Life and Sufferings of Father and Monk Abel” has reached our time; it was published somewhere in a timely edition, but due to censorship conditions in such an abbreviated form that everything relating to high-ranking officials was crossed out.
According to this “Life”, monk Abel was born in 1755 in the Aleksinsky district of the Tula province. He was a farrier by profession, but “you pay little attention to this (about farriery”). Yet his attention was directed to the divine and to the destinies of God. “The man” Abel “was simple, without any training, and had a gloomy appearance.” He began to wander around Russia, and then settled in the Valaam Monastery, but lived there only for a year and then “took the blessing from the abbot and went into the desert,” where he began “to add labor to labor and feat to feat.” “Lord God allow great and great temptations to befall him. Many dark spirits are attacking nan.” Abel overcame all this, and for that “the unknown and secret Lord told him” about what would happen to the whole world. Then two certain spirits took Abel and said to him: “Be you the new Adam and the ancient father, and write what you saw, and say what you heard. But do not tell everyone and do not write to everyone, but only to my chosen ones and only to my saints." From that time on, Abel began to prophesy. He returned to the Valaam Monastery, but after living there for a short time, he began to move from monastery to monastery, until he settled in the Nikolo-Babaevsky Monastery of the Kostroma Diocese, on the Volga. There he wrote his first book, “wise and wise.”
Abel showed this book to the abbot, and he took him and the book to the consistory. From the consistory he was sent to the bishop, and the bishop said to Abel: “This book of yours is written with the death penalty,” and sent the book with the author to the provincial government. The governor, having familiarized himself with the book, ordered Abel to be imprisoned. From the Kostroma prison, Abel was sent under guard to St. Petersburg. They reported him to the “Commander-in-Chief of the Senate,” General Samoilov. He read in the book that Abel in a year predicted the sudden death of the then reigning Catherine II, hit him in the face for this and said: “How did you, evil head, dare to write such words against an earthly god?” - Abel answered: “God taught me how to make secrets!” The general thought that he was just a holy fool and put him in prison, but still reported him to the Empress.
Abel spent about a year in prison until Catherine died. He would have stayed longer, but his book caught the eye of Prince Kurakin, who was amazed at the accuracy of the prediction and gave the book to read Emperor Paul. Abel was released and taken to the Palace to the Emperor, who asked for the blessing of the seer:
- Master Father, bless me and my whole house, so that your blessing will be for our good.
Abel blessed. “The Emperor asked him in confidence what would happen to him,” and then settled him in the Nevsky Lavra. But Abel soon left there for the Valaam Monastery and there he wrote a second book, similar to the first. He showed it to the treasurer, who sent it to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg. The Metropolitan read the book and sent it to the “secret chamber where important secrets and government documents" They reported the book to the Emperor, who saw in the book a prophecy about his imminent tragic death. Abel was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Abel sat in the Peter and Paul Fortress for about a year until Emperor Paul died, as predicted. After his death, Abel was released, but not to freedom, but under supervision in the Solovetsky Monastery, by order of the Emperor Alexandra I.
Then Abel received complete freedom, but did not enjoy it for long. He wrote a third book, in which he predicted that Moscow would be taken by the French in 1812 and burned. Higher authorities inquired about this prediction and put Abel in the Solovetsky prison with the following command: “He will be there until his predictions come true.”
Abel had to spend 10 years and 10 months in Solovetsky prison, in terrible conditions.
Moscow was finally taken by Napoleon, and in September 1812, Alexander I remembered Abel and ordered Prince A. N. Golitsyn to write an order to Solovki to release Abel. The order said: “If he were alive and well, he would come to us in St. Petersburg; we want to see him and talk to him about something.” The letter arrived in Solovki on October 1, but the Solovetsky archimandrite, fearing that Abel would tell the Tsar about his (the archimandrite’s) “dirty actions,” wrote that Abel was sick, although he was healthy. Only in 1813 was Abel able to appear from Solovki to Golitsyn, who “was very glad to see him” and began to “ask him about the destinies of God.” And Abel told him “everything from the beginning of centuries to the end.”
Then Abel began to go to monasteries again, until he was already in his reign. Nikolai Pavlovich caught by order of the authorities and imprisoned in the Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery in Suzdal, where, in all likelihood, he died.*
* Information about the monk Abel, collected by S. A. Nilus, was recently confirmed by the publication of materials stored in “one of the central archives of Moscow” of the investigative case of 1796. Peasant Vasily Vasilyev (that was the name of the seer in the world) was born in 1757 in the village. Okulovo, Tula province, and died in the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in 1841 (“Literary Russia”, 09/11/1992. p. 14).
Pyotr Nikolaevich Shabelsky-Bork (1896-1952)(Russian officer Imperial Army, monarchist, participant in the First World War. Participated in the liberation attempt Royal Family from Yekaterinburg imprisonment... The author of numerous historical studies about the past of Russia, mainly the reign of Paul I, about whose time he collected a rich collection of rarities (which disappeared during the Second World War in Berlin, where he then lived). After the war, Pyotr Nikolaevich moved to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires). in the early 1930s, under the pseudonym Kiribeevich, he published the “historical legend” “Prophetic Monk”: “A soft light was poured into the hall. In the rays of the dying sunset, biblical motifs on tapestries embroidered with gold and silver seemed to come to life. The magnificent Guarenghi parquet shone with its graceful lines. Silence and solemnity reigned all around.
The gaze of Emperor Pavel Petrovich met the meek eyes of the monk Abel standing before him. They, like a mirror, reflected love, peace and joy.
The emperor immediately fell in love with this mysterious monk, all covered in humility, fasting and prayer. His insight has long been widely rumored. Both commoners and noble nobles went to his cell in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and no one left him without consolation and prophetic advice. Emperor Pavel Petrovich was also aware of how Abel accurately predicted the day of death of his August Mother, the now deceased Empress Catherine Alekseevna. And yesterday, when it came to the prophetic Abel, His Majesty deigned to order that tomorrow he should be deliberately delivered to the Gatchina Palace, where the Court was staying.
Smiling affectionately, Emperor Pavel Petrovich graciously turned to the monk Abel with the question of how long ago he took monastic vows and in which monasteries he had been.
- Honest father! - said the Emperor. “They are talking about you, and I myself see that the grace of God clearly rests on you.” What can you say about my reign and my fate? What do you see with perspicacious eyes about my Family in the darkness of centuries and about the Russian State? Name my successors on the Russian Throne, and predict their fate.
- Eh, Father the Tsar! - Abel shook his head. “Why are you forcing me to predict sorrow for yourself?” Your reign will be short, and I see your cruel, sinful end. You will suffer martyrdom at the hands of Sophronius of Jerusalem from unfaithful servants; you will be strangled in your bedchamber by the villains whom you warm in your royal bosom. On Holy Saturday they will bury you... They, these villains, trying to justify their great sin of regicide, will declare you insane, will revile your good memory... But the Russian people with their truthful soul will understand and appreciate you and will carry their sorrows to your tomb, asking for your intercession and softening the hearts of the unrighteous and cruel. The number of your years is like counting the letters of the saying on the pediment of your castle, in which there is truly a promise about your Royal House: “To this house befits the stronghold of the Lord for the length of the days”...
“You’re right about this,” said Emperor Pavel Petrovich. “I received this motto in a special revelation, together with the command to erect a Cathedral in the name of the Holy Archangel Michael, where the Mikhailovsky Castle is now erected. I dedicated both the castle and the church to the Leader of the Heavenly Hosts...
“I see in it your premature tomb, Blessed Sovereign.” And as you think, it will not be the residence of your descendants. About the fate of the Russian State, there was a revelation to me in prayer about three fierce yokes: Tatar, Polish and the future one - the Jewish one.
— What? Holy Rus' under the Jewish yoke? This will not be forever!— Emperor Pavel Petrovich frowned angrily. - You're talking nonsense, monk...
- A Where Tatars, Your Imperial Majesty? Where are the Poles? And the same will happen with the Jewish yoke. Don’t be sad about that, Father Tsar: the Christ-killers will bear their toll…
- What awaits my successor, Tsarevich Alexander?
“The Frenchman will burn Moscow down in his presence, and he will take Paris from him and call him Blessed.” But the royal crown will seem heavy to him, and he will replace the feat of royal service with the feat of fasting and prayer and will be righteous in the eyes of God...
—Who will succeed Emperor Alexander?
- Your son Nikolai...
- How? Alexander will not have a son. Then Tsarevich Konstantin...
- Constantine will not want to reign, remembering your fate... The beginning of the reign of your son Nicholas will begin with the Voltairian rebellion, and this will be a malevolent seed, a destructive seed for Russia, if not for the grace of God covering Russia. A hundred years after that, the House of the Most Holy Theotokos will become impoverished, and the Russian State will turn into an abomination of desolation.
— After my son Nicholas, who will be on the Russian Throne?
- Your grandson, Alexander II, destined to be the Tsar-Liberator. He will fulfill your plan - he will free the peasants, and then he will beat the Turks and also give the Slavs freedom from the yoke of the infidel. The Jews will not forgive him for his great deeds, they will begin to hunt him, they will kill him in the middle of a clear day, in the capital of a loyal subject with the hands of renegades. Like you, he will seal the feat of his service with royal blood...
“Is that when the Jewish yoke you said will begin?”
- Not yet. The Tsar-Liberator is succeeded by the Tsar-Peacemaker, his son, and Your great-grandson, Alexander the Third. His reign will be glorious. He will besiege the accursed sedition, he will restore peace and order.
- To whom will he pass on the royal inheritance?
- Nicholas II - the Holy Tsar, like Job the Long-Suffering.
He will replace the royal crown with a crown of thorns; he will be betrayed by his people; as once the Son of God. There will be war Great War, global... People will fly through the air like birds, swim under water like fish, and begin to destroy each other with foul-smelling sulfur. Treason will grow and multiply. On the eve of victory, the Royal Throne will collapse. Blood and tears will water the damp earth. A man with an ax will take power in madness, and the Egyptian execution will truly come...
The prophetic Abel wept bitterly and quietly continued through his tears: And then the Jew will scourge the Russian Land like a scorpion, plunder its Shrines, close the Churches of God, and execute the best Russian people. This is God’s permission, the wrath of the Lord for Russia’s renunciation of the Holy Tsar. Scripture testifies to Him. Psalms nineteen, twentieth and ninetieth revealed to me his whole fate.
“Now I know that the Lord, having saved His Christ, will hear him from His Holy Heaven, with the power of salvation His right hand.”
“Great is his glory through Thy salvation; place glory and splendor upon him.”
“Seven are with him in tribulation, I will destroy him, and I will glorify him; I will fill him with long days, and I will show him My salvation” (Ps. 19:7; 20:6; 90:15-16).
Alive in the help of the Most High, He will sit on the Throne of Glory. And His royal brother - this is the one about whom it was revealed to the Prophet Daniel: “And at that time Michael will rise up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people...” (Dan. 12: 1)
Russian hopes will come true. On Sofia, in Constantinople, the Orthodox Cross will shine, Holy Rus' will be filled with the smoke of incense and prayers and will flourish, like a heavenly crimson…»
A prophetic fire of unearthly power burned in the eyes of Abel the Prophetic. Then one of the setting rays of the sun fell on him, and in the disk of light his prophecy arose in immutable truth.
Emperor Pavel Petrovich was deep in thought. Abel stood motionless. Silent invisible threads stretched between the monarch and the monk. Emperor Pavel Petrovich raised his head, and deep royal experiences were reflected in his eyes, looking into the distance, as if through the curtain of the future.
“You say that the Jewish yoke will hang over my Russia in a hundred years.” My great-grandfather, Peter the Great, about the fate of my rivers is the same as you. I also consider it good for everything that I now prophesied about my descendant Nicholas the Second to precede him, so that the Book of Fates would open before him. May the great-great-grandson know his way of the cross, the glory of his passions and long-suffering...
Seal, reverend father, what you have said, put everything in writing, I will put your prediction in a special casket, I will put my seal, and until my great-great-grandson your writing will be inviolably kept here, in the office of my Gatchina palace. Go, Abel, and pray tirelessly in your cell for me, my Family and the happiness of our State.
And, having placed the presented writing of Avelevo in an envelope, he deigned to write on it with his own hand:
“To reveal to Our Descendant on the hundredth anniversary of My death.”
On March 11, 1901, on the centennial anniversary of the martyrdom of his great-great-grandfather, Emperor Pavel Petrovich of blessed memory, after the funeral liturgy in the Peter and Paul Cathedral at his tomb, Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, accompanied by the Minister of the Imperial Court, Adjutant General Baron Fredericks (soon granted the title of count) and other members of the Retinue, deigned to arrive at the Gatchina Palace to fulfill the will of his deceased ancestor in Bose.
The funeral service was touching. The Peter and Paul Cathedral was full of worshipers. Not only the sewing of uniforms sparkled here, not only dignitaries were present. There were plenty of peasant's homespuns and simple scarves, and the tomb of Emperor Pavel Petrovich was covered in candles and fresh flowers. These candles, these flowers were from believers in the miraculous help and intercession of the deceased Tsar for his descendants and the entire Russian people. The prophetic Abel’s prediction came true that the people would especially honor the memory of the Tsar-Martyr and would flock to His Tomb, asking for intercession, asking for the softening of the hearts of the unrighteous and cruel.
The Sovereign Emperor opened the casket and read several times the legend of Abel the Prophet about his fate and that of Russia. He already knew his thorny fate, he knew that it was not for nothing that he was born on the day of Job the Long-Suffering. He knew how much he would have to endure on his sovereign shoulders, he knew about the upcoming bloody wars, unrest and great upheavals of the Russian State. His heart sensed that damned black year when he would be deceived, betrayed and abandoned by everyone...”
He was a prophet who predicted the main events of the 19th and 20th centuries. The seer Abel also predicted the death of the Romanov dynasty.
During the reign of Catherine II, a monk-seer lived in the Solovetsky Monastery, his name was Abel. Abel began to prophesy about the death of the empress. The walls, even the monastery ones, have ears - for his predictions, Abel was imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress “under the strongest guard.” After the death of Catherine, who died in exact accordance with Abel’s prophecy, the monk was amnestied by Paul I himself. The Emperor wished to meet with the elder and listen to new forecasts from him. Abel described in detail the death of the emperor, and at the same time the unenviable future of the Romanov dynasty.
"Your reign will be short, and I see your cruel, sinful end. You will suffer martyrdom at the hands of Sophronius of Jerusalem from unfaithful servants; you will be strangled in your bedchamber by the villains whom you warm in your royal bosom. On Holy Saturday they will bury you... They, these villains, trying to justify their great sin of regicide, will declare you insane, will revile your good memory... But the Russian people with their truthful soul will understand and appreciate you and will carry their sorrows to your tomb, asking for your intercession and softening the hearts of the unrighteous and cruel. The number of your years is like counting a beech". (Prophecies of Monk Abel)
The prediction that the Russian people will appreciate Paul I has not yet come true. If a survey were conducted today about the attitude of Russians towards past autocrats, Pavel would certainly be one of the outsiders.
About Alexander I
Abel was released in peace to the Nevsky Monastery for a new monastic vow. It was there, at his second tonsure, that he received the name Abel. But the prophet could not sit in the capital’s monastery. A year after his conversation with Pavel, he appears in Moscow, where he gives predictions to local aristocrats and wealthy merchants for money. Having earned some money, the monk goes to the Valaam Monastery. But even there Abel does not live in peace: he again takes up the pen and writes books of predictions, where he reveals the imminent death of the emperor. Abel is brought in shackles to St. Petersburg and locked up in the Peter and Paul Fortress - “for indignation peace of mind His Majesty.” Immediately after the death of Paul I, Abel was again released from prison. This time Alexander I becomes the liberator. The new emperor warns that he sends the monk to the Solovetsky Monastery, without the right to leave the walls of the monastery. There Abel writes another book in which he predicts the capture of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812 and the burning of the city. The prediction reaches the king, and he orders to calm down the imagination of Abel in the Solovetsky prison.
"The Frenchman will burn Moscow down under Him, and He will take Paris from him and call him Blessed. But secret sorrow will become unbearable to Him, and the Royal crown will seem heavy to Him. He will replace the feat of Royal service with the feat of fasting and prayer. He will be righteous in the eyes of God: he will be a white monk in the world. I saw over the Russian land the star of the great saint of God. It burns, it flares up. This ascetic will transform Alexandrov’s entire destiny...". (Prophecies of Monk Abel)
According to legend, Alexander I did not die in Taganrog, but turned into elder Fyodor Kuzmich and went to wander around Rus'.
About Nicholas I
When in 1812 the Russian army surrenders Moscow to the French, and Belokamennaya, as the monk predicted, almost burns to the ground, the impressed Alexander I orders: “Release Abel from the Solovetsky Monastery, give him a passport at all times.” Russian cities and monasteries, supply them with money and clothing.” Once free, Abel decided not to irritate royal family, but went on a trip to the Holy Places: visited Mount Athos, Jerusalem, Constantinople. Then he settles in the Trinity-Sergeyeva Lavra. For some time he behaves quietly, until, after the accession of Nicholas I, he breaks through again. The new emperor did not like to stand on ceremony, so “for the sake of humility” he sent the monk into captivity in the Suzdal Spaso-Efimovsky Monastery, where in 1841 Abel reposed before the Lord.
"The beginning of the reign of Your son Nicholas will begin with a fight, a Voltairian rebellion. This will be a malicious seed, a destructive seed for Russia. If it weren’t for the grace of God covering Russia, then... About a hundred years after that, the House of the Most Holy Theotokos will become impoverished, and the Russian Power will turn into an abomination of desolation"(Prophecies of Monk Abel)
About Alexander II
After Abel's death, his name was not forgotten. By the end of the 19th century, even a certain cult arose among intellectuals: they wanted to make the monk Abel a Russian Nostradamus. God saved - the letter that Abel gave to Paul I was “waiting in the wings” in the Gatchina Palace. According to the emperor's will, it was to be opened 100 years after Paul's death.
"Your grandson, Alexander II, destined to be the Tsar-Liberator. He will fulfill your plan - he will free the peasants, and then he will beat the Turks and also give the Slavs freedom from the yoke of the infidel. The Jews will not forgive him for his great deeds, they will begin to hunt him, they will kill him in the middle of a clear day, in the capital of a loyal subject with the hands of renegades. Like you, he will seal the feat of his service with royal blood...." (Prophecies of Monk Abel)
About Alexander III
The hundred years expired in 1901. Emperor Nicholas and his family arrived at the Gatchina Palace. According to recollections, they were cheerful and cheerful. However, after reading the letter, Nikolai’s mood seriously worsened.
“The Tsar-Liberator will be succeeded by the Tsar-Peacemaker, his son, and your great-grandson, Alexander the Third. His reign will be glorious. He will besiege the accursed sedition, he will bring peace and order.” (Prophecies of Monk Abel)
About Nicholas II
What I read made Nicholas II think seriously...
« Nicholas II - the holy king, like the long-suffering Job. He will have the mind of Christ, long-suffering and dove-like purity. Scripture testifies about him: Psalms 90, 10 and 20 revealed to me his whole fate. He will replace the royal crown with a crown of thorns; he will be betrayed by his people, as the Son of God once was. The Redeemer will be, he will redeem his people - like a bloodless sacrifice. There will be a war, a great war, a world war. People will fly through the air like birds, swim under water like fish, and begin to destroy each other with foul-smelling brimstone. On the eve of victory, the royal throne will collapse. Treason will grow and multiply. And your great-grandson will be betrayed, many of your descendants will whiten their clothes with the blood of a lamb in the same way, a man with an ax will take power in madness, but then he himself will cry. The Egyptian execution will truly come". (Prophecies of Monk Abel)
About the new turmoil
Perhaps knowledge of fate explains a lot in the behavior of Nicholas II in recent years. His humility before his own fate, paralysis of will, political apathy. The emperor saw his calvary and ascended it. And his fate, like the kings who preceded him, was predicted by the monk Abel.
"Blood and tears will water the damp earth. Bloody rivers will flow. Brother will rise up against brother. And again: fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and an internal enemy, godless power, the Jew will scourge the Russian land like a scorpion, plunder its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best Russian people. This is God’s permission, God’s anger for Russia’s renunciation of its God-anointed One. Or else there will be more! The Angel of the Lord pours out new bowls of tribulation so that people will come to their senses. Two wars, one worse than the other. The new Batu in the West will raise his hand. People between fire and flame. But he will not be destroyed from the face of the earth, for he is satisfied with the prayer of the martyred king.". (Prophecies of Monk Abel)