Blooding of the Guns by Alexander Fullerton
Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Konzel'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.
Alexander Fullerton served with distinction as a submarine officer in the British Royal Navy during WWII. One of the foremost authors of modern naval fiction, he has written many novels, including the six-volume Nicholas Everard WWII Saga.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780718114480 |
| ISBN 10 | 0718114485 |
| Title | Blooding of the Guns |
| Author | Alexander Fullerton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
| Year published | 1976-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 239 |
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