Nora Fitzgerald
Russia's greatest contribution to the world over time is not oil or gas or arms. ”Rather it's been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life's emotional and intellectual restlessness, its complexity and intensity.
Antonina Maga
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 2
"To the attentive reader, several Tolstoys exist: in Chertkov's publication we see the accuser, the struggler against monarchy. Another Tolstoy is the doubter, the truth seeker, and that is the image which the modern reader has yet to rediscover."
In the early morning hours of 20 November around 5:30 a two-day drama ended in which a group of about forty rebel monks, followers of the former Bishop Artemije, with the help of a group of civilians who came with them, attempted to carry out a coup in the Diocese of Raska and Prizren and by forcible occupation of monasteries to place under the control of Bishop Artemije monasteries in the north of Kosovo and the Raska region. This was a unique event, unprecedented in the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church because it was not a proclamation of schism by an active diocesan bishop, but the forcible usurpation of a Diocese by a retired Bishop who additionally has been banned by the SOC Holy Synod from conducting religious services.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), S. V. Stepashin
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
The Holy Synod simply cited by its decision a fact that had already taken place—Count Leo Tolstoy excommunicated himself from the Church and completely broke off ties with it. This is something that he not only did not deny, but even resolutely emphasized at every convenient opportunity.
They abandoned their homeland, not knowing how it would all end. But they left their country with firm hope and faith in Russia's rebirth. They departed from Sevastopol defeated, but not crushed. This love for Russia, this loyalty to the Russian idea, was preserved in them, and they passed it on to the next generation.