Posted on 08/15/2022 6:48:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
Below is a machine translated interview that gives a unique insight into Dostoevsky’s relationship to the Orthodox Church, specifically to the Optina Monastery and Elder Ambrose, and the prophecies about the revival of Russia.
The famous Optina hermitage monastery, celebrated by the elders, hosted the "Days of Dostoevsky" for the first time this summer. [See video below for a summary of the events]
Many revelations were given to the great writer through communication with the Optina elder Ambrose, to whom Dostoevsky visited in 1878, after the death of his four-year-old son Alyosha. In an interview, leading Russian Dostoevsky researcher, founder of the Dostoevsky Foundation, and professor emeritus of Moscow State University Igor Leonidovich discusses with RIA News these revelations.
- Igor Leonidovich, what is about today that connects the name of Dostoevsky with the Optina Hermitage, where he came only once in the summer of 1878 to the elder Ambrose?
- During the Days of Dostoevsky in Optina hermitage the foundation stone for the future monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich was unveiled. A part of this stone was brought from Omsk - from his place of punishment. And there is some symbolism in it: it's erected together with Ilyushchkin's stone in The Brothers Karamazov. In the novel, when the boys after Ilyushchkin's funeral gather at the stone, Alyosha Karamazov makes a speech about universal love, about the future, about the fact that the deceased's comrades must not forget him and love each other. There is a certain symbolism in the fact that the participants of Dostoevsky Days gathered exactly at that stone...
- And when will the monument itself be erected?
- Presumably, next summer.
- Should and will "Days of Dostoevsky in Optina Monastery" be repeated, in your opinion?
- Yes, we discussed the idea of making these days......
(Excerpt) Read more at gorthodox.com ...
1878 - keep in mind he only died three years later.
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I am just starting my first Dostoevsky novel, “Crime and Punishment.
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One of his best, in my humble opinion. And i’ve read them all.
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Thank you-I have wanted to, for a long time.
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