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Russian Monks on Mount Athos - The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's (Paperback)
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The Holy Mountain of Athos is a self governing monastic republic on
a peninsula in Northern Greece. Standing on the shores of the
Aegean Sea is one of the twenty ruling monasteries that comprise
the republic, that of St Panteleimon, known in Greek as the
Rossikon. It's building, fully restored in recent years, can
accommodate up to 5,000 men, reflecting the scale of the settlement
at its apogee in the nineteenth century and prior to the Bolshevik
revolution in Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 it
has experienced a strong revival and is now one of the most
numerous of the twenty. But the vast buildings that can be seen
today are really only a reflection of the history of the past two
centuries. Much less well known is the fact that the history of a
Russian presence on Athos goes back more than one thousand years.
This is the first comprehensive account of this in the English
language. The author has been able to draw from previously
inaccessible archival materials in gathering the wealth of
information he shares in this work. The history of the community is
not described in geographical isolation but shown as interacting
with the much wider worlds of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and
the modern nation state of Greece, together with that of the
Russian homeland whose political character is constantly evolving.
There are shown to be three distinct phases in this history: From
the tenth to the twelfth centuries when Russian Athonites inhabited
the ancient Russian Lavra of the Mother of God, also known as
Xylourgou. Then the six hundred years from the mid-twelth to the
mid-eighteenth century when the ancient Monastery of St Panteleimon
was the Russian house on Athos, more commonly referred to as
Nagorny or Stary Rusik. Finally the most recent 250 years, that are
naturally covered in greater depth thanks to the wider availability
of sources. Amongst the themes explored in the book are ethnic
relations, the Pan-Orthodox ideal, the role of money and political
pressure, sanctity and heroism in adversity, and the importance of
historical memory and precedent. The author seeks to arbitrate
fairly between often strongly opposing ethnic viewpoints. It
examines in detail the fluctuating fortunes of the monastic
community of St Panteleimon during the past 250 years when its
ethnic identity was frequently questioned. It is a history that has
been blighted by Greek-Russian quarrels, mass deportation of
dissenting brethren, troubles in the Caucasus, and even tangential
implication in the present-day dispute between the Ecumenical and
Moscow Patriarchates over Ukraine. This text will be invaluable to
both academic historians and the general educated reader who does
not possess specialist knowledge. It is complimented by a timeline,
glossary, comprehensive bibliography, index, full colour
illustrations and photographs.
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