Nina Krygina is a candidate of psychological sciences and, part-time, a nun. She gives lectures and conducts conversations on the topic of Russian Orthodox psychology, compares modern social life with religious dogmas and tries to bring people closer to spirituality. Her lectures can be found on many media. She helps people who find themselves in a confusing situation with advice and guides them on the right path.
Nina's childhood
Very little is known about the childhood of the nun and Orthodox psychologist, since there are no sources telling about her biography. One can only learn about the life and family of the abbess from personal conversations, in which she gives examples from her own life.
Origin and birth
A future teacher and candidate of psychological sciences, so famous today for her lectures on a righteous or correct life, Orthodox psychologist nun Nina Krygina was born in 1969 in the Sverdlovsk region in an ordinary Soviet family.
Family
Her parents were ordinary workers, but the peculiarity of the family was their righteousness and true faith in God. In those distant Soviet times, it was not customary to talk about the soul and God; in a country that had defeated capitalism, people did not go to church; if they had found out about this, they could even have been deprived of their party membership card. Atheism was promoted in the USSR. But despite this, the parents were exclusively believers, they prayed, they knew all the rituals and Orthodox traditions.
Mother Nina was not the only child in the family. From her lectures it is known that she has a twin sister, Varvara. In conversations, the nun casually mentioned that Varvara suffered a serious illness as a child, and her mother saved her with constant prayers to the Mother of God, where she asked for healing for her child.
Teenage years and early life
During her school and student years, Mother Nina was an ordinary worldly person. It is known that she strived to get a decent education and build, like everyone else, a personal life.
Getting higher education
Mother Nina was always purposeful and well-read. She was interested in human psychology, she tried to understand the reasons for certain actions of people, their aspirations and true desires. That is why, while still young, she decided to enter the psychology department of one of the Moscow universities.
Teaching activities
After graduating from the capital's higher educational institution, she returned to her small homeland and began teaching psychology at Magnitogorsk University. As a teacher, she interacted with students and discussed many modern problems related to family values. It was then, while working at the university, that she gained life experience and even then began to think about family structure, raising children and other issues that later formed the basis for her lectures.
At Magnitogorsk University she became a professor of psychological sciences and defended her PhD thesis in psychology.
Personal life
The nun mentioned several times in her conversations that earlier, despite the disapproval of her elders regarding her lover, she still married her chosen one. The husband was not so religious and did not support her in her desire to be closer to God and to the Orthodox life according to God's commandments. During their marriage, they had a boy. Having become an adult, he, having weighed all the arguments, made his own choice - to go to a monastery. Thus, those close to the preacher shared with her her desire to live for the benefit of other people.
Mature age
Nina Krygina lived in the world like everyone else, but already in adulthood she decided to devote herself to serving the Lord and worldly people.
Life in the monastery
She became a novice at the Sredneuralsk convent, and later became a nun. This monastery is engaged in charity work, helping socially vulnerable segments of the population and people in difficult life situations: helping lonely elderly people, orphans, destitute and poor people, mothers raising children on their own, refugees, the sick and disabled. The monastery supports them both spiritually and financially. Nina Krygina, as a nun of this monastery, together with her sister Varvara Krygina, who is the abbess, and other nuns also provide all possible support to those in need, coming to their aid when they can only rely on God.
Lectures
Modern man, due to developed technology, the emancipation of women, dependence on money and false information, forcing people to be selfish, have lost contact with God, lost the road to peace and inner harmony. In her lectures, the nun gives answers to questions that are relevant to everyone: family relationships, love and relationships with others. Indeed, in our age there are many divorces, quarrels with loved ones, problems related to mutual understanding with others and understanding of life itself. The preacher in her conversations explains as clearly and simply as possible where these moments come from and how you can deal with them.
Life in the monastery
Today Nina Krygina is a resident of the Sredneuralsky convent, built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Spreader of the Loaves.”
This monastery is engaged in various kinds of social activities, helping the elderly, orphans, the disadvantaged and the poor, single mothers, refugees, the disabled and providing them with all kinds of assistance, spiritual and material.
The nun sisters are also engaged in educational activities, and they visit kindergartens and schools in the city of Sredneuralsk and the entire Sverdlovsk region.
Sermons and lectures by Nina Krygina
In fact. The preacher has quite a lot of topics with which she speaks. However, they are all connected by one thing - this is the family: the relationship between spouses, in particular young ones; parenting; perception and interaction with relatives; and the power of women.
These topics are in many ways close to every listener, since disputes and even problems arise for almost everyone. The nun explains where everyday disputes come from, and what to do to avoid and overcome them, and how to create a happy marriage.
In her lecture “The Warmth of the Hearth,” she reveals the secret of a happy marriage, which lies in the ability to forgive one’s other half and the desire to give everything to one’s loved one, that is, sacrifice. The family rests on these two pillars. If a husband and wife constantly take offense at each other and accumulate grievances, they will soon develop into hatred and indifference. Indeed, today young boys and girls are growing up to be selfish people. The thing is that in the past there were many children in families, and they knew how to forgive and share with their brothers and sisters. Nowadays there are few children in families, and they get used to being in the center of the whole world. And having already formed their own family, it is difficult for them to share their primacy with the other half. The lecture also talks about sacrifice, that spouses should strive to give their time, care, and energy in order to make the other person feel comfortable. It is understood that the desire to help must come from both spouses.
In the lecture “On the upbringing of girls and boys,” the author talks about the upbringing of children from the perspective of the Orthodox tradition regarding gender differences. Today it is fashionable to criticize Domostroy for the fact that women were only obliged to raise children and care for their husbands. However, in the age of women's emancipation, when weak girls can earn no less than men, the role of the breadwinner is divided equally. Who is raising the children? Nannies, kindergartens and schools. The nun says that girls and boys cannot be raised the same. The boy must understand that he is the future breadwinner and breadwinner; in the future, he must be able and willing to support his family and take care of the well-being of his own offspring. Today, there is a different trend when men abandon children, hide from child support, and do not want to support their own sons and daughters. All because they were not given proper education. Girls need to be raised so that when they grow up, they know how to listen and respect their husband, not be selfish and rush after fashion, as is customary today, but strive to devote all their time to the family.
In the conversation “We must speak delicately about delicate things,” the author reflects on the issue of early sexual relationships between young people, which he calls “trial” marriage. The nun says that when young people begin their relationship not with romance and manifestations of care, respect, admiration and other blessed feelings, but with passion and bed, then their soul does not have time to learn to love and the relationship turns out to be more physiological than spiritual. Then the girl gets pregnant, and the newlyweds get married, a baby is born, and the husband and wife do not even have time to understand whether they really love each other, whether they are suitable, whether life together is possible. They were united by the desire to have fun and become adults. Therefore, “trial” marriages, that is, pre-nuptial relationships, discourage a person from looking for that congenial companion and are frequent causes of divorce.
In the lecture “To women whose husbands suffer from alcoholism,” the nun says that for real Russia, the drunkenness of men, fathers of families, has become a real tragedy. Previously, in tsarist times, men did not behave this way. The Soviet matriarchy was to blame for everything, under which the man lost his former authority as the only supplier and breadwinner. Now women can also support their families, and in case of conflicts, quarrels and divorces occur. Children often stay with their mothers, and all they need from their fathers is maintenance. Men accept this situation as humiliation and see themselves as unnecessary.
The author turns to women and asks them to pay attention to their drinking husband, and not consider him a barbarian, to let him understand that it is difficult for the family without him, not to demand, but to elevate him in their own eyes, so that he understands his importance for his loved ones. This is how you can save men from the desire to lose themselves in wine.
The nun also reflects on female vampires who seek to humiliate a man and make him believe in the worthlessness of his life. Such women only blossom because their husbands lose their vitality. Often it is in such cases that men begin to kiss the bottle.
In the lecture “On Clinical Death,” Nina Krygina examined the data of various scientists about the state of the soul after death and about people’s lives after, for some reason, the soul returned to their body.
In the lecture “On Fashion,” the teacher talks about the inability of some women to dress correctly. Every representative of the fair sex strives to look beautiful and well-groomed, but sometimes excessive sexuality in the form of too short skirts, unimaginably deep necklines and translucent clothes is mistaken for beauty. A woman should not look approachable, and when choosing fashionable clothes, you should not get carried away with things that are standard for the time or season, which will scream about sex. Being beautiful and fashionable does not mean looking approachable.
The conversation “Sorrow and Sickness” says that most often the causes of our illnesses are the sins we have committed. Having committed a bad act, a person experiences pangs of conscience, and his body becomes ill. Only by repenting of one’s wrongdoing, reviewing one’s previous life and understanding one’s previous mistakes, can a person be cured.
This is a list of only part of the conversations and sermons of the nun, who seeks to help people who find themselves in complicated life situations. Also, listening to her conversations can help you understand a lot and, perhaps, avoid difficulties in the future.
Proceedings
Long ago, nun Nina began giving lectures on psychology, and, thanks to the series of lectures “The Warmth of the Hearth,” she gained fame. Then her articles “On Women’s Emancipation”, “On the Role of the Media in the Destruction of Traditional Sex Role Models”, etc. appeared. Next was her speech on the topic “The Royal Family - the ideal of a Christian family” and other, no less interesting and useful topics.
In her speeches, Nina Krygina mainly carries faith in God, which is harmoniously synthesized with her professional activities and life experience. It makes a deep impression on a large audience of listeners because it brings enormous saving benefits.
However, there are also critical people who do not accept her lectures, since she has to touch on issues of sexual relations between spouses. However, this does not bother her, since she already had experience of family life.
But here we must also note her charm, attractiveness, charisma and inner beauty that emanates from her. At her performances, you get the feeling that she is constantly listening to herself and only then giving information that comes from within.
Recordings of her conversations are distributed by the Center for the Protection of Motherhood “Cradle” of the Yekaterinburg Diocese, the Office of Social Ministry. “Parental education” was also organized using her methodology.
