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In addition, the authorities maintained strict control over the liturgical activities of church hierarchs. Bishop Hilarion was obliged to provide advance notice of the time and place of service to the organizational and accounting department of the Moscow Council 315. This probably simplified the work of informants. And there was something to keep an eye on. The first year of Bishop Hilarion’s bishopric is filled with divine services and preaching. During this time, they served 142 liturgies, more than 142 all-night vigils and delivered 330 sermons. Traveling around the Vereisky district sometimes lasted for a month. “My main business now is preaching,” he says in a letter to his colleague at the academy, Professor Nikolai Nikanorovich Glubokovsky 316. In September-October 1920, Bishop Hilarion was ill with typhus and was unable to be active: “I spent half of October lying down, and half sitting and walking. Since November I have been out into the world” 317. The disease led to complications in the heart, which made themselves felt in subsequent years. Bishop Hilarion’s sermons and even simple participation in divine services warmed the hearts of many Christians during the years of rampant atheism. N.P. Okunev in his “Diary of a Muscovite” recalled the services in the Sretensky Monastery during Lent in 1921: “Bishop Hilarion was attracted there, not by his magnificent hierarchal service, but by participating in the services as an ordinary monk... Well! I'll tell you, and he sang! His voice is most pleasant, clear, sonorous, young... high. Tenor. He sang simply, not according to the notes, but so touchingly and sincerely that I, perhaps, have never heard such a wonderful performance in my entire life.”318 At this time, there, in the Sretensky Monastery, the younger brother of Bishop Hilarion, Archimandrite Daniel, became a canon, and soon became Bishop of Yeletsky, the same one whom Volodya Troitsky in childhood frightened with the danger of remaining unlearned. Bishop Ilari devoted the remaining free time to resolving issues of his flock. By the fall of 1921, another vicar of the patriarch, Bishop Peter (Polyansky) of Podolsk, was once again arrested, and Bishop Hilarion had to replace him in the conduct of the affairs of the patriarchal chancellery. In addition, he participates, and very successfully, in debates with atheists. All his strength was entirely devoted to church service: “Like a prisoner chained to his car - that’s how I live. Not only are there no free days, there is not even a free hour when I could do what I want, and not what I need and need in a hurry” 319. Despite all the difficulties, Bishop Hilarion sees significant benefits in his position: “There is no time to read, no time to write, no time... even to sin. For the sake of the third, perhaps, the Lord arranges such a life for me” 320. He does not lose his usual optimism: “At least they took me to Butyrka for a vacation. This is the only dacha or sanatorium available to us” 321. However, rest of this kind was not far away. In the spring of 1921, Bishop Hilarion again noticed the increased interest of the authorities: “Lately I have had a lot of worries from one provocateur, who is looking for something to blame me for. So far he has not succeeded in anything, but the devil is a very inventive mind in this regard. It is easy to find yourself accused, and you must always be prepared for this.”322 Already in September 1921, for a minor reason, the authorities subjected him to short-term arrest. The chosen vessel: The history of Russian theological schools in previously unpublished works, letters from leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as in secret documents of the leaders of the Soviet state; 1888–1932 / comp., author of foreword, afterword. and comm. M. Sklyarova. – St. Petersburg: Borey, 1994. P. 303. Hilarion (Troitsky), bishop. Letter from the priest To Leonid and Lydia Arkhangelsky dated December 22, 1920 - Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. Okunev N.P. Diary of a Muscovite [excerpt] // John (Snychev), Metropolitan. St. Petersburg and Ladoga. Hieromartyr Hilarion, Archbishop of Verei: Life and Testimonies. – M.: Sretensky Monastery, 1999. P. 29. Hilarion (Troitsky), bishop. Letter from L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated March 23, 1921 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. His own. Letter from the priest To Leonid and Lydia Arkhangelsky dated September 20, 1921 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. His own. Letter from L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated March 23, 1921 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. His own. Letter from L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated May 7, 1921 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky.