The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian literary imagination
iconic vision in works by Dostevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others
by Leonard J. Stanton
"Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Kozel'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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Christian influences, History, History and criticism, In literature, Kozel'skaia Vvedenskaia Optina (Monastery), Kozelʹskai︠a︡ Vvedenskai︠a︡ Optina (Monastery), Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian literature, Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ, Russian literature, history and criticism, Christianity and literature, Literatur, Religiöses Bewusstsein, Schriftsteller, Rezeption, Letterkunde, Russisch, Russisch-Orthodoxe Kerk, Invloed, Optina PustynTimes
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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian literary imagination: iconic vision in works by Dostevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others
1995, P. Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian literary imagination: iconic vision in works by Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and others
1995, Peter Lang
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"An annotated bibliography of Optina publications" (p. [265]-276).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and index.
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