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Nestor was born in Crimea (now in present-day Ukraine) in 1960. As a young man, he concentrated on developing his wrestling, boxing and martial arts abilities. He was always distant from his family, had a keen awareness and stood out above his peers. Neither he nor his family knew at the time, but two of his great-uncles served at Pochayiv Lavra (Monastery), one as a married [[priest]] and the other as a revered [[monk]].
In the early 1980s, in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, an atheist and communist Russiastate, Nestor travelled traveled to Odesa to work as an apprentice to paint religious murals. However, it seems that Nestor was motivated less by spirituality than by the need to work, because it was at this time that his friends, the older artists, would begin to inspire him with stories of righteous [[monastic]]s, spending 1000 years glorifying God in this life. Despite the government of the time, Nestor saw the world's vanity and desired to flee it in order to arrive at ancient Christianity.
==Pochayiv Lavra==
