Sated with power. The life story of the Metropolitan of Petrograd Pitirim (Oknova)
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The book of the famous historian S. L. Firsova is devoted to the history of life, church ministry and political activity of the latter in front of the February 1917 Revolution of the Metropolitan of Petrogradsky and Ladoga Pitirim (Window, 1858-1920) A typical synodal bishop, a person who has not distinguished among the fellows on the episcopal ministry by special talents (and scientific, and administrative), whose reputation was seriously corrupted by the closeness of the Siberian "Starta" Gregory Rasputin, the Vladyka remained in church history more like a symbol of timeless than as An outstanding hierarch and preacher. Why? How valid were the reproaches of those contemporaries, who saw the representative of the Dark Forces in the Lord? Why are the current reducing agents of historical truth trying to prove that Metropolitan Pitirim is an innocent sacrifice of the slander"s "enemies of Russia"? The author of the book is trying to find answers to the questions raised, considering the life of Metropolitan Pitirim in the context of time, paying considerable attention to the analysis of rumors and gossip related to his name, and allowing readers to draw conclusions on their own without trying to drive them into the framework initially adopted as the only possible socially - Polytic or sociological scheme. The book addressed to both church historians and a wide range of readers interested in the pre-revolutionary past of our Fatherland and the Orthodox Russian Church is built on the basis of both archival and published material
Author:
Author:Firsa Sergey Lvovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Series:
Series: Religion
ISBN:
ISBN:9785-7429-0386-4
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