Today we will talk about a wonderful Orthodox author. Olesya Aleksandrovna not only published many interesting books, useful for reading to every Christian. She is also a teacher at the Gorky Literary Institute . The merits of Olesya Nikolaeva include membership in the Writers' Union. But let's talk about everything in order.
How did it all start?
The biography of Olesya Nikolayeva, like each of us, begins with our own birth. The future writer saw the world in 1955. It was a beautiful summer day. On June 6, the air in Moscow was warm, it smelled sweetly of something mysterious. This day gave the world Olesya Alexandrovna.
Her childhood passed in Moscow. Like everyone, Olesya Nikolaeva went to school, entered and graduated from college. Yes, not some, but the one in which he now teaches.
By the way, a couple of interesting facts about the writer:
- Poems began to be written at the age of seven. Prose - at the age of fifteen.
- Born in the family of a front-line writer.
- The real name at birth is Olga. Olesya is a creative pseudonym.
Creative activity
Creativity in the biography of Olesya Nikolaeva is devoted to its largest section. As we said above, the girl began to write at the age of seven. And her first publication was published in 1972. The very first collection of poems came out in 1980. It was called the "Garden of Miracles." Eight years later, Olesya Alexandrovna became a member of the Writers' Union. In parallel, she taught at the university.
After 10 years, in 1998, Olesya Nikolaeva became the head of the journalism department and gave a course of lectures on Orthodoxy in creativity. Few people know, but this woman was broadcasting on the Spas channel in the early 2000s.
One of her most interesting books on Orthodoxy is Heavenly Fire. This is a cycle of stories in which God's providence in human destinies is clearly visible. In one of these stories, Olesya Alexandrovna talks about a miracle that happened specifically to her. And this cannot be ignored.
Personal miracle
By the age of 25, Olesya Nikolaeva was a happy married woman and the mother of two children. At 28, she became pregnant with her third child. Once in the winter, she and her children were going to Vespers. Before leaving the house, we decided to drink tea. The woman began to light the stove, and a piece of burning sulfur from the match flew straight into the eye. Immediately a huge thorn was formed.
Here Olesya Alexandrovna sits at home with young children, there is a severe frost on the street. Meanwhile, a phone call rings. Monk Leonid called, a great friend of the family. He was wretched from the womb of his mother: a woman was in the face, but in fact - a man.
Olesya Nikolaeva does not know what to do. I asked Father Leonid for prayer help. He advised to drip olive oil in the eye, but do not go to the hospital alone. The woman obeyed, and the next morning her husband returned from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. And he immediately drove to the hospital. Yes, only the doctor looked at the spouses as insane. Olesya Alexandrovna didn’t find anything in the eye.
Two weeks later a new misfortune occurred. Olesya fell ill with purulent bronchitis. She should give birth in a month, because of this they will not take to the hospital. And they don’t take to the hospital because of bronchitis. In general, the woman understood that her end was coming. This is scary: to die at 28 years old, being pregnant and leaving her husband with two young children.
When Olesya Alexandrovna began to completely suffocate, an ambulance took her to the hospital. And then the child decided that it was time for him to be born. At that time, as Oles Nikolayev was in the birth pangs, her husband kept calling Monk Leonid with requests for prayer help. For almost two days the poor monk prayed for the health of the woman in labor. Begged. Olesya gave birth to a healthy girl, called Anastasia. And a year after the birth of Nastya, father Leonid died.
Such miracles sometimes happen in life.
Author's prose
- "The keys to the world."
- L'infirme de naissance.
- "Men, Tekel, Fares."
- "Nothing wrong".
- "Tutti."
- "Captive Cherub."
- Kuks from the family of seraphim.
- Corfu.
- "Disabled childhood."
- "Wonderful stories."
- "Heavenly fire" and other stories.
Poetry
- "Garden of Miracles."
- "On the ship of winter."
- "Fig tree".
- "Here".
- Rien d'autre que la vie.
- "Apology of man."
- AMOR FATI.
- "Spanish letters."
- "200 horses of heaven."
- "500 poems and poems."
- "To Heavenly Jerusalem."
- "Hero".
Personal life
What can be said about the personal life of Nikolaev Olesya? She has been married for a long time. Her husband is a priest. Yes, yes, a real priest. Very famous, by the way. Vladimir Vigilyansky is the author of several Orthodox books. The spouses have three adult children: the eldest daughter Alexandrina, son Nikolai and the youngest daughter Anastasia.
Summarize
We talked about the Orthodox author Oles Nikolaeva (her photo in the article). We highlight the main aspects:
- The first collection of poems came out in 1980.
- Olesya Aleksandrovna - member of the Writers' Union and lecturer at the Literary Institute.
- Her works are a reflection of human relations with God, life in Christ, let’s say so.
- Married, has three children.
That's all we wanted to tell about Oles Nikolaeva. Read her books, they are unlikely to leave their readers indifferent.