Who is the author?
Archpriest Alexander Shantaev served for ten years in rural parishes in the Yaroslavl diocese, and then was the rector of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Uglich Kremlin. The priest knows firsthand how Russia lives away from megacities, and tells about it with love and pain.
What is the book about?
From the train window we see a small station. How to live here? Every day see this forest, these rickety houses. The rural priest knows how days pass in that bear corner. He is closer to the doctor and teachers, they go to him when there is nowhere to go. Father is a good storyteller. The thread of a leisurely narrative leads us along the railway, through a rare forest and a swamp, to where our Russia sleeps under the autumn rain, under small snow. And he sees in a dream a funny girl asya, church grandmothers with her hands trimmed, a rural policeman and a cashier who sells tickets at a small, god of a forgotten station in the very heart of a large and wonderful country. Unhurried stories – Troy …
Author
Archpriest Alexander Shantaev
Publisher
Nikaya, 2015
Series
Spiritual prose
Genre
Orthodox fiction
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