To Northern Athos. Student notes

Annotation to the book "to the" North Athos". Student notes - pilgrim on Valaam "

Essay "to the" Northern Athos "", notes of the student - a pilgrim at Valaam, is the first published work of Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkova, 1880-1961) Genre scenes and household sketches in these notes are adjacent to deep thoughts, apologetic and polemic notes are clearly sounded, literary portraits of people are bright and expressive. The essay was written by a young man for twenty -four years old, a student -manacemic ", a “solid” theologian, freely quoting patristic creations, and at the same time - a cheerful young man, alive and direct, singing Irmos" about the water".
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (ISR16-631-3472).
Compiled by: Svetozarsky A.K