"Ashore the Divine river" - one of the best works of С. А. Нилуса (1862 -1929). The most considerable part of book plugs in itself a diary that an author conducted from 1909, giving life in Оптиной the deserts. Such form of narration allows to be dipped in the atmosphere of that time monasterial life, understand wisdom and simplicity of the оптинских old men directed to God and finding solitary shelter in a saint monastery. In addition, in a book told about Саровском and Дивеевском monasteries. As well as all works of Нилуса, his diary is full presentiments of catastrophe, imminent at that time on Russia, and alarms for the fate of Homeland.