Hieromonk Roman (published on the Vetrovo website)

POEMS 1970s - 1983

Dodder
“The night is bright. Among the birches there is a month..."
“I haven’t expected any consolation from life for a long time...”
“Don’t say - your love has died away...”
“I’m waiting for you in vain...”
“When I go to judgment with my soul...”
Most Holy Theotokos, save us!
“My prayer will overcome everything...”
Psalm 41
"Nailed to the cross by my untruth..."
"I'm lying on a hill..."
“Don’t stop me from crying today...”
“Oh, leave it, no need to disturb...”
“I want for the last time...”
“All the trees have lost their minds...”
“My time has come. The time has come..."
“I’m overwhelmed by the beauty of October...”
Prayer
“The moon wandered doomedly...”
“And my life, neither more nor less...”
“Words about kindness are meaningless...”
“It’s already evening, friends, it’s already evening...”
"What was it? Dream or reality?..”
“Man has many faces, that’s how it is...”
"No one is happy alone..."
“The world before we met was so good...”
“It’s not good to be visiting all your life...”
“Everyone speaks in poetry before they die...”
“I had a dream...”
“I don’t eat a half-bitten apple...”
“I didn’t learn courage from people...”
“I will not violate my love for living things...”
“They drowned up to the top of the willow tree...”
“The star is burning above the maple’s head...”
“The blizzard aches, it aches so sadly...”
Spring

POEMS 1985-1993

“I dream about the same thing...”
“And there is a lot of harvest. There are few doers..."
I bless those who have comprehended the Truth
Cry
“I’ll shut up, shut up, shut up...”
“The greatness of rivers lies in the stillness of the waters...”
“Do not believe those who say: Here is Christ...”
“It’s calm and peaceful in the cemetery...”
“We sow rye and mow quinoa...”
"You have to pay for everything..."
“I won’t sleep today anymore...”
Fog
“Ryabchevsk! Ryabchevsk! Godless hole..."
“But there was no place for me in Russia...”
“I will wash my hands in Desna, in Desna...”
“I no longer crave healing...”
“From a young age, as I remember...”
“Not all the places have been visited yet...”
“And I loved it. And I was loved once..."
“Go away, go away, sadness, sadness...”
“And I visited a great city...”
Father Leonid's house
“So much pain all around, so much pain...”
“I will come to you from the northern lands...”
“And the first snow, and the first snow will melt...”
“In my father’s house, old and abandoned...”
“The soul is filled with sorrow, like water with midnight darkness...”
“What a vastness, and nowhere to run...”
“I say goodbye without having time to find...”
“We are going to our death. Both old and small..."
“What’s all that noise? It’s far away to hear..."
“I put the Future in the verse...”
Jerusalem
“And the Milky Way and the gentle crescent...”
"I was born on an autumn night..."
“I am known in the world as unsociable, gloomy and proud...”
"Thirty-seven is a good number..."
“Oh, the hayloft, my hayloft...”
“And the Church is something more than us...”
“And they passed by...”
Ninth Wave
A drop of truth
“If I had not learned the secret of Communion with God...”
“Do not judge a tree by the leaves that fall from the tree...”
“My day of sorrow! Day of cleansing!..”
“Oh, how I swam for a long time...”
“The earth is a haven of imperfection...”
"When the water closes itself..."
“How I longed for a monastic destiny...”
“Doubt is the child of lack of faith...”
“The soul longed to partake of the Cup of prayer...”
“Prelest is deviation from the Truth...”
“The fear of the Lord is the Abba of abstinence...”
“Blessed is he who has not sold the Truth...”
“Eh, dear! And we have already arrived..."
Don't tear the Truth apart into opinions
House of Sorrows
“Have pity, darling, pity...”
“I will die, but not now...”
“My white temple. The hour of farewell is sad..."
Lullaby
“Without God, a nation is a crowd...”
“You say, contorting your face in suffering...”
“The autumn day was shrouded in drowsiness...”
"Always like this. Under the rustle of falling leaves..."
“But I can’t cling to the damp earth...”
“I will walk on a land defiled by deception...”
“The White Night has prepared a bed in the Pskov region...”
“The nightingale sang, oh, how he sang...”
“And the pain of deception will touch me...”
“And again I’m alone, like a tree in winter...”
"On someone else's side..."
“Get away from me, get away from me, every single one...”
“A lot of knowledge comes with a lot of sadness...”
“Come, soul, to the Young Lady...”
“I’ll throw on my mantle...”
“Oh death! We can't stand your look..."
“No one is holy like You...”
“What is needed for salvation? A little…"
Funeral
Stones of holy altars
"Come, let us please Joseph..."
“And they’re already knocking on me, and they’re knocking again...”
"From dawn to dawn..."
“Leaving home, relatives, my inheritance...”
“I’ll spend the night in a haystack, dig a hole like an animal...”
“I see myself gray-haired in a dream...”
“I’ll light a lamp in the cell”
“The death knell. The deacon censes indifferently..."
“This night, this night I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep...”
“I’ll draw an old house...”
"White Temple over the River..."
"Evangelist by Divine Hand..."
“Pilate watered Christ and His bi...”
“The blind man sang what he had learned from childhood...”
“The lamp is glowing, the candle light is cheerful...”
“I will disappear from the face of the earth...”
“Oh All-Singing Mother! O All-Singing Mother!..”
“Receive your guests, Moscow, with bread and salt...”
"I said that somewhere..."
"Oh my God, my God..."
"Midnight, lunar midnight..."
“Mount Golgotha. I see three crosses..."
“This is the song of the captives, persecuted by the enemy...”
"Bells ringing..."
“The earth will turn from light into darkness...”
“Why are you sleeping, arise, my soul...”
“I thought a lot about my fate...”
“Blessing of the air...”
Sister of Sorrow
"Blessed Virgin Mary..."
Let us stand before the Queen of Heaven
“My joy, the time of repentance is coming...”
"Looking back at my life..."
“The night envelops the roads in darkness...”
“Mother punished Dobrynyushka...”
“Everyone knows this for sure...”
“I have a great dream...”
"Rome rejoices in pagan joy..."
“Fasting with prayer will warm the heart...”
"Thank God, I'm alone again..."
“At this hour, the midnight hour...”
"Everything on earth is for us living..."
“Bom, bom, bom - the morning is disturbed...”
“I will open the Holy Psalter...”
“Let’s put aside care...”
“What, Adam, are you sitting opposite Paradise...”

POEMS 1994-1999

“Putting aside the worldly lyre...”
Prophetic verbs
“And I would like to sing differently...”
“The linden trees are shaking steadily with dew...”
"Jordan! Jordan! A small river!..”
“After the Temple - no thoughts, no words...”
“And my life is worthy of crying...”
“Spring is a jubilant blue…”
“And everything was written before us...”
“Friends, and foes, and others...”
“It’s not proper for monks to tease geese...”
“In spiritual life everything is different...”
“We say that we’re a little lame, dear...”
“The bad weather yesterday seemed to have broken loose...”
“Am I deprived in my distance?..”
“The Lord said: “The eye is a lamp to the body...”
“Like it was covered with wormwood...”
"Oh my God! With Your Blessing..."
“Lack of faith is the mother of sadness...”
“God’s confidant preached good news…”
“Do you remember the Pharisee prayed…”
“He who desires honor will drink in sorrow...”
“My land! Wheatgrass and weeds!..”
“Russia is Light! Russia - Imminent!..”
“I’ll end with joy in God...”
“He complained in a deplorable voice...”
“Unpretentious village life...”
“Listen, Rus'! Snowy Rachel!..”
“What are mountains without peaks?..”
Wanderer
Svaneti
“I was young, like everyone else under the moon...”
“I am a child of the Church and Russia...”
“How empty it would be without You...”
"Christ is risen! But are we with Him?..”
Near the Kosovo field
“Not a day, but a fairy tale! Sun and azure!..”
“And I like winter more and more…”
“The sun has risen. Fine!.."
“And sweeps, and sweeps, and sweeps...”
“What, soul, has the desert given you?”
“A light from a wax candle...”
“Blessed is he who dwells afar off...”
“And we are walking on the edge of a knife...”
“Outside the window there is fringe, fringe...”
“The language of the people is beautiful with wisdom...”
“Finally the snow creaked...”
“Both in the soul and around - enlightenment...”
"Wherever they look for yesterday..."
“Lack of faith is the mother of sorrows...”
"Why does everything sing like spring water..."
Saved
“But I haven’t found a place under the sun...”
“Sadness is not forever, and grief is not forever...”
“Who blames the times, who blames fate...”
“How quickly the buds blossomed...”
“He who does not know more cries for little...”
“And in White Rus' there is snow...”
Procession
"Azure! Azure! Treasured azure!..”
Parents
“The twentieth century is almost on its last legs...”
“And Herod has no hope of salvation...”
“And what’s beyond your reach, you can’t carry...”
“We are not good for a golden heart...”
“Midnight is hallowed by the mystery of the universe...”
“How important it is to know your boundaries...”
“I am absorbing revelation...”
“At least theological science...”
“For what, for what, I don’t know...”
“You can’t pray for the past path...”
"Not everything that moves lives..."
"Art. Creation. Two twin brothers?..”
“Being jealous of the evil will...”
“My dears! What have we done, what have we done?..”
“Humble yourself. And God will forgive you..."
“My dears, this is all!..”
Pray, people!
“I haven’t been hard to touch in life...”
“I’ll go beyond the fields, into the copses...”
“King of Heaven! Creative Power!
“Know-it-all blinding glares...”
“I wouldn’t inadvertently cloud my conscience...”
“Oh, how the birds sing! You can’t sing like that in captivity!”
"When the earth is filled with corruption..."
Lilac dawn
“How long to look for captivating happiness?”
“Oh Serbia - driven to hell!”
“I love looking at star clusters...”
“And tomorrow is the Ascension of Christ...”
“And the winter forest is especially solemn...”
“Living life is not a field to cross...”
“We are not supposed to die in bed...”
"My old friend. When at the end of the day..."
"Moon. Freezing. And no one around..."
Gentlemen the actors
"I'll go where the ships are..."
“The moon has turned the earth blue…”
“The candle is burning. Psalter on a lectern..."
"Exhausted from losses..."
"The earthly embodiment of purity..."
“Apparently, until my death breath...”
“My house is filled with uncleanness and darkness...”
“May everything be done by the Grace of the Lord!..”
“The village of Ryabchevsk! Fatherland without ringing!..”
"When the clock strikes twelve..."
“It looks like autumn has returned...”
“I was sailing on an old barge...”
“How did we live? They ruined themselves..."
“My neighbors are rinsing me…”
“I am not consoled by the fact that I am forced to leave...”
“Tuning in to the high wave...”
“Blessed is he who, filled with silence...”
“As Eve disobeyed of old...”
“What I have created in my own name, I will mercilessly destroy...”
“Moon and snow. And rustling sounds in the distance..."
“At the word “forty” something broke off...”
“And all I have left is a turn, and only...”
“When they kill me, rejoice with me...”
“But I’m no longer drawn to my father’s house...”
“Pechersk monk (I think Miron)…”
“Two firebrands smoked pitifully...”
“Great Russian! What height…"
“I didn’t preserve God, I couldn’t...”
“May this sorrow pass away...”
“We are being carried somewhere into impenetrable darkness...”
“All of Russia has become the Kulikovo field...”
“And on this earth no one can make it in time...”
“The day of death is better than the day of birth!”
"Hearing God's command..."
“My old elm, you are no longer…”
“Any extreme is the road to destruction...”
“Behold the Bridegroom comes at midnight...”
“Do not remember either good or bad...”
“Holy night! Bliss and peace..."
“I want to remain silent, humbled for everyone and everything...”
“The arrogant mind strives for the Truth...”
"The color is blue and the color is green..."

Creativity – spiritual poems and songs

Alexander began writing poetry in the best years of his youth, and even then she stood out for her poetic literacy and musicality.

Until the 80s of the twentieth century, the creator was an adherent of Yesenin’s lyrics, but later everything changed - he began writing more spiritual poems, more suitable for his position. The clergyman has reached impressive heights in the literary field - he is the bearer of many awards and the holder of an endless number of prizes.

In the early 90s, the clergyman published collections of lyrics “Russian Kukol” and “Hearing God’s Command” after receiving permission from the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II.

The poems turned out to be so beautiful that they began to be set to music and performed by the most famous Russian pop singers, among whom the amazing Kuban Cossack Choir stands apart.

For this purpose, some celebrities (for example, Sergei Bezrukov) visited the monk’s monastery to obtain his personal permission. However, one of the surprising things about the recluse is that he does not recognize copyrights.

One of Roman’s largest works is the book “There Is My Serbia,” which tells the story of a hermit’s trip to a war-torn country in 1999 and describes his impressions of what he saw there. An interesting work that exposes the vices of power and human suffering should not be ignored either in Serbia, about which the story is being told, or in Russia.

POEMS 2000-2009

“The world is lustful and favors fornication...”
“I’ll go to bed and there’s a sad star in the window...”
“Life flew by like a miracle bird...”
“Who doesn’t indicate deadlines these days!..”
“The end of the world seems to be near...”
"What's happening to us..."
“The seduced one ecstatically composed...”
“In the village of flashes - the New Year is celebrated...”
“And we have not been living for the first year in the world...”
“Who spends every day in heroic deeds...”
“Do we need the One Whose Nature…”
“Of all the Apostles, Saul is closest to me...”
“Oh, our human dimension!..”
“Love and faith bring back childhood...”
“The stars are becoming more and more joyful for Christmas...”
Grandfather Yazop
“I started composing poetry from a young age...”
“Don’t say that one is not a warrior...”
“A Miracle Word has been given for victory...”
“Insurance is for timid ears...”
“He didn’t live like that, he loved communication, laughter...”
“Soul, have mercy on yourself!..”
“We are called to shine, not to smoke...”
"My soul! You're out of your mind!..”
“The snow lies, they look at the peaks...”
“The world loves to twist your guts…”
“Judas’ illness is no longer a shame...”
“San, as you know, does not save...”
“We didn’t know how to live before...”
“We both hate and love...”
“I’ve been in the Temple twice in my life...”
"Psalms, canons of the All-Night Vigil..."
"All faiths promise consolation..."
“Where can I run away from everyone?..”
“The fathers noticed long ago...”
“Who doesn’t prophesy among us today!..”
“It’s time, it’s time to leave the lyre...”
“We are growing in breadth, we are turning our gaze to the earthly...”
“We are not fit for spiritual life...”
“Beauty does not tolerate beauty...”
“Wind, wind! Where did you gallop to?..”
“How is a person different from cattle?..”
"Christian! What a word!..”
“Earthly happiness is children’s laughter in the house...”
Walk
"Disbelief. Illness or dead end?..”
“The night is so clear today...”
“I’d rather sit down, but I won’t stand in the stall!..”
“But in the Kingdom of Light, feelings are not needed...”
"Did not see? The parent stumbled..."
“They blindfolded Ivan...”
“Who wants to amaze the world with themselves...”
“The Psalter has been holy for many centuries...”
“A God-loving man knows no darkness...”
“Leaving the cloudiness of prayer…”
“Everything is born to praise...”
“Souls are not soiled by flattery...”
“A long time ago, a brother came to a monk...”
“Miru is constant in his aspirations...”
“Communication is also a consolation...”
“Forever and ever!” Scary to imagine…"
“People and nations are in turmoil...”
“But we did not please the world...”
“We can only be realized then...”
“There is only one vessel, and it is not without limit...”
“That passions darken life...”

Biography of Father Roman Matyushin

The future priest was born on a cold November day, the 16th of 1954. His cradle was the village of Ryabchevsk, Trubchevsky district in Bryansk. Little Alexander Ivanovich (the worldly name of the monk) was the son of a teacher teaching natural sciences, Zoya Nikolaevna, and a participant in World War II, Ivan Konstantinovich. In addition to the boy, the Matyushins had two more children - Tamara and Sveta.

Sasha's mother was a true believer. She secretly took the icons out of the suitcase under the bed, let her children kiss them and put them back - in the turbulent post-war times it was impossible to do otherwise. She read the Gospel to her little son. When the children grew up a little, Zoya Nikolaevna, her sister and the kids went to Bryansk to receive Holy Baptism. Even at this stage of his life, Sasha began to think about monasticism.

Alexander Matyushin was always close to literature and creativity, but life forced him to go through numerous trials before it allowed the creator to take up his favorite craft. After entering the Faculty of Philology of the State University in Kalmykia and graduating from it, Sasha worked at a factory producing silicate materials, as a loader at a sawmill, and as a carpenter.

The priest’s next professions were different; they seemed to lead the future hieromonk to his true destiny. Alexander Ivanovich got a job as a music teacher at school, artistic director at the Palace of Culture. However, even working in difficult logging conditions, he could not refuse the gift given from above and was engaged in creativity - he wrote lyrics, prose, and songs.

In 1980, Alexander firmly decided to present his life to the service of God and went to enter the Vilnius Holy Spirit Monastery, and three years later he was tonsured a monk already in the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, taking upon himself the honor of bearing the name Roman (in honor of the Greek saint Roman Sweet Singer). After two years of tireless service, he received the rank of hieromonk.

If suddenly you didn’t know yet, then we advise you to read about the biography of Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov.