Archpriest Alexei Uminsky was one of Moscow's most famous priests. He hosted a program about Orthodoxy on the city television channel, published books of sermons, and poets, musicians, writers, and artists gathered for holidays and charity fairs at Trinity Church in Khokhly, where he served as rector for 30 years. It was an important place on the map of Moscow for many, where people came for both joy and sorrow. Father Alexei organized special liturgies for patients at the children's hospice, visited prisoners, and befriended people both famous and unknown. All this ended during the war. Now he lives and serves in Paris, and the Russian Orthodox Church has defrocked him.
This book is the story of his life. It tells of his childhood in Perovo in the 1960s, when Gagarin flew into space and five-story buildings replaced the crooked village houses. It tells of his youth among Soviet hippies and Orthodox monarchists. About a priest's journey from the enthusiasm of the 1990s to the catastrophe of the 2020s. But most importantly, about the present. This is a Christian understanding of life in a collapsed world.

Uminsky's co-author is journalist Ksenia Luchenko, author of the book "With Good Intentions."