The Unknown homeland : a Samizdat manuscript / translated by Marite Sapiets. [print]

Contributor(s):

Sapiets, Marite

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780872430822

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PG3477
PG3477.S241.U556 1980

Available additional physical forms:

Review: This is the true story of Father Pavel, a Russian Orthodox priest, and his life in the last days of Tsarism and the early period of Soviet rule. It shows Russian Orthodox spirituality in its simplicity, and profundity, earthed in a rich tradition that fills the lives of people who live by it. Father Pavel was born about 1876 and died early in 1932 in exile in Siberia, prematurely aged by prison and suffering.Subject: As a young man, he was called to be a hermit. But after his original studies he became known as a brilliant writer on Pratristics and before making his profession as a monk, he taught for a year in a girls school. At the end of the year there was a graduation ball. In a description which is like something out of War and Peace, he is persuaded to dance by two high spirited girls. He falls in love with one of them and marries. For awhile, they live happily together; she becomes a school teacher while he becomes involved in parish work.Subject: After the October Revolution, Father Pavel's wife repudiates religion and becomes an active atheist. They continue to live together, although his religious books and icons are now banished to the corridor. He is arrested, given a prison sentence, and exiled to Siberia. He is released from prison and taken to a village in the depths of the forest where he lies mortally ill and exhausted by the cruel journey. One of the criminals he has met becomes a spiritual son, and although the church in the village has been shut, he comforts the people from his deathbed.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	PG3477.A1 S27 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001539358

This is the true story of Father Pavel, a Russian Orthodox priest, and his life in the last days of Tsarism and the early period of Soviet rule. It shows Russian Orthodox spirituality in its simplicity, and profundity, earthed in a rich tradition that fills the lives of people who live by it. Father Pavel was born about 1876 and died early in 1932 in exile in Siberia, prematurely aged by prison and suffering.

As a young man, he was called to be a hermit. But after his original studies he became known as a brilliant writer on Pratristics and before making his profession as a monk, he taught for a year in a girls school. At the end of the year there was a graduation ball. In a description which is like something out of War and Peace, he is persuaded to dance by two high spirited girls. He falls in love with one of them and marries. For awhile, they live happily together; she becomes a school teacher while he becomes involved in parish work.

After the October Revolution, Father Pavel's wife repudiates religion and becomes an active atheist. They continue to live together, although his religious books and icons are now banished to the corridor. He is arrested, given a prison sentence, and exiled to Siberia. He is released from prison and taken to a village in the depths of the forest where he lies mortally ill and exhausted by the cruel journey. One of the criminals he has met becomes a spiritual son, and although the church in the village has been shut, he comforts the people from his deathbed.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.