This small monastery was situated in the forest only few kilometers away from the Kamtchatka's famous hot springs bathing resort Paratunka. It was a monastery only for men, where at the time of my visit lived two young monks. They told me, that a second monastery exists in Kamchatka only for women. I visited the monastery first time on the way to the southern volcanoes. Back from the tracking we come around by the monks again. We were allowed to take a bath in the hot springs near the monastery and the monks offered us self made "kvas". This is a traditional light alcoholic drink, which is often sold from small tank lorries at the streets of bigger settlements in Siberia. The Russian church is the truly winner of Perestroyka. The most people I met in Kamchatka had a necklace with the cross and professed as Christians. In Petropavlovsk at the time of my visit the foundation of a huge Church with the gold dome was laid. The religious zeal of the Russian people is a little bit surprising, considering, that each religious activity in Soviet Union have been suppressed by the communists for 100 years. The regained religiousness of the Russian have sometimes strange offshoots. Especially in Siberia appeared in the last years many self-called prophets. Some of them grounded parishes consisting of many hundred fellow-believers.