The Optina Monastery (Óptina Pústyñ) attracted all levels of - TopicsExpress



          

The Optina Monastery (Óptina Pústyñ) attracted all levels of society, including Russias intellectual and artistic elite. Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the brothers Ivan and Konstantin Aksakov, Konstantin Leontiev – these are but a few of the major artists and thinkers who visited Optina Pustyn. But the monastery is best known for its encounters with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy– encounters that in each case involved a severe personal crisis...
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:11:15 +0000

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