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Author : Scott M. Kenworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199736133
Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.
Author : Scott Mark Kenworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199379415
In the 1830s and 1840s, increasing numbers of Russians renounced the modernized, secularized, Westernized Russia created by Peter the Great in an effort to revive alternative lifestyles based on Orthodox spirituality and values. This effort found expression in a revival of monasticism that began in the era of Nicholas I and would last for the duration of the imperial period, brought to an end only by the cataclysm of revolution and repression of the new Bolshevik regime. Suppressed by the communists, Russian monasticism experienced another revival in the post-World War II era and again in the post-Soviet period, demonstrating that the impulse to renounce the contemporary world for the cloister is a central pattern of Russian religiosity. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of these monastic revivals, presenting a fundamentally new picture of religion in modern Russia. Scott Kenworthy's approach is that of a contextualized microhistory: an in-depth study of one monastic complex, framed within research on monasticism more broadly. The case study here is Russia's largest and most famous monastery, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, near Moscow. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is again experiencing a revival, and monasticism is playing a central role in this resurgence. In the search to recover the past, Russian Orthodox are turning to the nineteenth century revival as a normative model. Numerous Russians are once again renouncing the contemporary world--in this case, both the socialist past and the post-socialist capitalist present--and opting for a mode of life that represents a return to past values. Monasteries are again foci of popular piety as well as of important publishing activities, and their spirituality is regarded as the purest expression of Orthodox ideals. This book provides an essential basis for understanding Orthodoxy in its historical context and its contemporary manifestations.
Author : Bessie Beatty
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9353708044
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Jonathan Dimbleby
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409073468
Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles in an attempt to get to the beating heart of the new Russia. His epic journey takes him from the Arctic city of Murmansk in the west to the Asian port of Vladivostok in the east, and he encounters an extraordinary range of people: urban intellectuals and entrepreneurs, war veterans and migrant labourers, spiritual leaders and aging rock stars, bootleg vendors and fish poachers, loggers in the forests of Siberia and fellow journalists under siege in an increasingly autocratic society. Russia is both a deeply personal odyssey and a mesmerizing account of a country undergoing profound economic, cultural and political change.
Author : Bessie Beatty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Journalists
ISBN : UVA:X000030142
Author : Jeremy Poolman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857206091
The Road of Bonesis the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. Tsars, wars, famine and wealth: all have crossed and travelled this road, but no-one has ever told its story. In pursuit of the sights, sounds and voices both past and present, Jeremy Poolman travels the Vladimirka. Both epic and intimate, The Road of Bones is a record of his travels - but much more. It looks into the hearts and reveals the histories of those whose lives have been changed by what is known by many as simply The Greatest of Roads. This is a book about life and about death and about the strength of will it takes to celebrate the former while living in the shadow of the latter. Anecdotal and epic, The Road of Bones follows the author's journey along this road, into the past and back again. The book takes as its compass both the voices of history and those of today and draws a map of the cities and steppes of the Russian people's battered but ultimately indefatigable spirit.
Author : Konstantin Paustovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714722731
Author : Charlotte Hobson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571340798
Each chapter is a bonne bouche, possessing its own particular flavour, from sweet to acrid-bitter. Hobson's characters are often wonderfully quixotic and so is the spirit she finds everywhere at this crux in Russia's history. She drinks with derelicts, hangs out with gypsies, and watches investigators go about the grim business of exhuming purge victims, and giving them the Christian burial they have been denied for seventy years. Her style is deft: she manages to render the scenes through which she passes with needle-sharp precision.' Financial TimesThis witty and yet deeply moving, acutely observed tale of Charlotte Hobson's year in Russia takes us to the heart of a country many of us continue to be fascinated by and struggle to understand. Or as the TLS put it: 'Hobson writes with such beguiling directness that it is hard not to feel intimate with her and her characters. Few books evoke so much of Russian life, with so little effort.
Author : David Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Railroad travel
ISBN : 1846883709
David Green decides to travel thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Vladivostok on the iconic Trans-Siberian line. On the train and in the many Siberian outposts he stops at he meets a wide range of ordinary Russian people - from a group of Beatles-singing babushkas to soldiers and struggling entrepreneurs - with situations arising that are at times comical, awkward or poignant. Travelling in third class, he learns to adhere to the train's unwritten social codes and to navigate the unfamiliar environment of Siberia, occasionally shadowed by security agents.
Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472845504
An illustrated study of the history of the Moscow Kremlin, a metaphor for Russia, a symbol for its government and an enduring icon of the country. A fortified complex covering 70 acres at the heart of Moscow, behind walls up to 18m high and watched over by 20 towers, the Kremlin houses everything from Russia's seat of political power to glittering churches. This is a fortress that has evolved over time, from the original wooden guard tower built in the 11th century to the current stone and brick complex, over the years having been built, burnt, besieged and rebuilt. Starting with the initial building of a wooden watch tower on the banks of the Moskva river in the 11th century, this book follows the Kremlin's tumultuous history through rises and falls and various iterations to today, supported by photographs, specially commissioned artwork and maps. In the process, it tells a story of Russia, and also unveils a range of mysteries around the fortress, from the 14th-century underground tunnels built to permit spies to enter and leave it covertly through to today's invisible defences such as it GPS spoofing field (switch on your phone inside the walls and it may well tell you you're at Vnukovo airport, 30km away) and drone jammers.
Author : Konstantin Paustovsky
Publisher : Firebird Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0828532249
Author : Константин Паустовский
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction,Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015014454436
Author : Nikita Krivtsov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Moscow (Russia)
ISBN : 0953065006
Author : Steve LeVine
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015077118399
Documents that bloodshed that has stained Putin's two terms as president, while examining the perplexing question of how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence.
Author : Charlotte Hobson
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89081044299
Charlotte Hobson spent her gap year as a student in Voronezh, in deepest provincial Russia. Her arrival coincided with the collapse of this society, as initial optimism about the fall of communism gave way to disillusionment and uncertainy. These feelings are mirrored in the doomed love affair she has with the vodka-swilling Mitya. They too started out in a mood of wild optimism, and felt that anything was possible. Until in the spring the snow thawed, and revealed the black earth beneath.