A quiet space to be with people who could hold the fullness of the season. The opportunity to be with other people where it wasn’t out of place for me to cry in the pew. No one would wonder if I was okay, or why I wasn’t “Merry and Bright!”. It was a place to come to...
These works, distinguished by a specific child protagonist and being a kind of children’s memoir replete with longing for the abandoned homeland, brought the author fame in exile. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shmelev began to be regarded as the leading Russian Orthodox writer of ...