The daily life of Solovki. From the monastery to the elephant

The everyday life of the Solovetsky archipelago, or just islands, as the Solovki living on it call, amazingly incorporates a variety of eras in the history of Russia. And therefore, the book proposed by the attention of the reader equally naturally combines stories about the existence of a variety of people: our contemporaries and ascetics of piety of the XV-XVI centuries, archers of the governor Meshcherynov, who were dealt with the participants of the famous Solovetsky sitting of the second half of the 17th century, and Jung Great Patriotic War, prisoners of the Solovetsky special purpose camp and Chekists from the environment of Maxim Gorky, who visited Solovka in 1929. On the island in the White Sea, the time seemed to stop, and when we are here, we can fully feel it, make sure that everyday life on Solovki is not at all vain everyday and household routine, but something more is that there is not on the mainland Thinking. Here, everyone becomes part of the story and part of the space that the ancient Sami called Saivo, which means "island of the dead"