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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination - Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others (Hardcover)
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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination - Iconic Vision in Works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Others (Hardcover)
Series: Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, 3
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Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Konzel'sk, in
Russia's Kaluga Government, was the site of an unprecedented - and
as yet unequaled - period of religious and literary flowering.
Optina Pustyn was a mecca for many of Russia's most prominent
writers and thinkers. Distinguished visitors included Ivan
Kireevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy. This
study explains why Optina and its renowned elders held a special
attraction to Russia's literary giants. It reveals how the elders'
use of language was rooted in the iconic vision of Optina's
fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of contemplative monasticism. It
is the first study to examine Optina's social gravity against the
broad background of nineteenth-century institutions of Church and
Intelligentsia.
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