Fr Terentyev, who carries out his ministry in a church that was once a former administrative office and then a dental clinic and which is dedicated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker, told the author the story of two hunters who had come to him for baptism. They had related to him that once, through an accident, they had been stranded without any equipment in a temperature of 40 degrees below zero and were resigned to freezing to death. One of them remarked, “If I get out of this alive, I think I’ll bloody well get baptised.” Almost immediately an elderly hunter, surprisingly well equipped, slid down the slope towards them; he lit a fire, fed them, helped them change out of their wet clothes, then disappeared the following morning after telling them “not to forget their promise”.
