Palestinian Pilgrim. Travel Notes about the Sacred East

Archpriest Alexander (Anisimov), the parish priest from the city of Raisin Kharkiv province, a valid member of the "Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society", was a "ordinary" priest, whose pilgrimages received incredible fame at the end of the XIX century. During his wanderings to the Holy Land, he began to hold "pilgrimage folk readings", which was collected in 1887 to 600 pilgrims in the courtyard of Sergiev Ontieval in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people in the rays of the "magic lantern" listened to the stories about. Alexandra.
Travel notes pass that the unique gift of the narrator who possessed Archpriest Alexander. A person who has once experienced "extraordinary sadness on the Holy Earth"s abandoned and bypassed all the historical sacred places