Abel of Valaam, born in 1757, became a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church at the age of 28, and during a year-long isolation in the forest God bestowed on him a communication with the spirits knowing the future. They revealed to Abel events to occur in Russia beginning with Empress Catherine II the Great, and through the lives of all the subsequent Tsars to the Communist era, and to our contemporary Russia. Over his lifespan of 84 years, Abel spent...