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There is an outstanding book "Near the Monastery Walls" by Sergei Volkov, one of the last graduates of the old Moscow Theological Academy. In my opinion, one of the best works about the Church and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra of the period of the revolution. Volkov knew Saint Tikhon, Hieromartyr Hilarion Troitsky, listened to Florensky's lectures, saw the closure of the Lavra in the 1920s and its opening after the war, taught, and became beggar. He died in the 1960s without having a family and spent his entire life working on diaries and memories, most of which have disappeared. But even what has been preserved and published in the form of the above book amazes with the volume of knowledge and amazing language, poetic, soft and deep, which marked the era of modernity.
But not only that is attractive. He was replaced by family, household amenities, friends, social circle of the book. He was a man who read all his life voraciously, who in the most bleak years obtained, bit by bit, rare, often forbidden books, analyzed them, got used to them, communicated with them as with living people. Reading, organizing what he read, analyzing texts and ideas became for Volkov the main and main business of life.
The records contain several thousand (!) Books, brochures and articles from the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. Volkov recalled how he returned to books during the difficult war years. “I again plunged into the world of knowledge and truly aesthetic pleasure. And again, as once upon a time in the academic years, I was carried away by all this. Antique World, Middle Ages and Renaissance; Goethe, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac; Persian, Japanese and Chinese poets; the history of China and Egypt, philosophical and archaeological journals, memoirs, works, travel - everything came to life for me again. I read new and re-read old books ... Books are material clots of the world mind and world soul - you were true teachers and companions in life. The Academy and Florensky, symbolists, mystics, dreamers, visionaries, poets, musicians - you are the joy and color of the world, teachers, mentors, friends, loved ones and relatives! All the people who came into close contact with me, who influenced me with their kindness, sympathy, affection, wisdom, all teachers, friends, acquaintances, students, comrades - I see, I remember and are grateful to you ”- he enthusiastically described his attitude to books. “How would I like to know,” he wrote, “what people like Romain Rolland, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Bernard Shaw, Herbert Wales, Aldington, Feuchtwanger think and say now? What books did they publish, what did they say about this war and about the people and life of our days in general? And I - a contemporary of these talented and deeply respected people dear to my mind and heart - do not hear their voices and their heartbeats "on such days." It is insulting and bitter. And you hear different chatter from all sides, and on the radio, and through newspapers and magazines ... "
Among those records that I had to see, there are whole sections - poetry (Knyazhnin, Soloviev, Agnivtsev, Merezhskovsky, Severyanin, Gumilyov, Pasternak, Teffi and dozens of other names), art history, prose (hundreds of titles - from Olesha, Ilf and Petrov, Bely, Antokolsky, Veresaev to Morua, Gashek, Locke), ancient history, medieval history, modern history, bibliography and, finally, philosophy - Russian and Western, which he knew brilliantly. He made careful extracts from various books about those he knew - first of all, about Florensky, whom he idolized. This is not counting the most varied periodicals and occasional brochures and articles. Separately, a list of "books that I would like to have" was compiled. Among them are Mandelstam, Muratov, Marienhof, Rolland, Nietzsche, Spengler ...
To "feel" that distant, tragic, densely saturated and wonderful time, you need to read not so many authors. Among them, no doubt, Sergei Volkov.

The arena of her struggle?

Regarding the upcoming meeting. And - what is considered a success and not a success. It seems to me that we are in captivity of the post-Soviet understanding of what is success and not success. And that success is some kind of agreement. The situation has changed. All agreements and successes were at our expense. And in fact, they were not successes. I personally would think that if Putin unambiguously and firmly, although quite correctly, indicates to Biden that the era of such an interpretation of success is over, it will already be a success for us.

An era passed, single-celled organisms became talk show hosts, and coffee continued to test my patience.

We live in an era that feels capable of achieving anything, but does not know what exactly. She owns everything, but not herself. She was lost in her own abundance.

There is no past as such, the past is what the modern period can be considered a completely normal era.

The past is an era in the form of historical half-erased myths, which now seem to us to be complete nonsense.

The era when the East blindly adopted the models of the West is over. Just as, I hope, the era when Russia followed the logic of the West and proceeded from them that there are global interests, not national ones, has ended. Today, thank God, the world is changing...

at night the only time is the luxury and glitter of lights

They say it's the age of technology. This is a mistake. This is an era of manipulation. Intrigue is my horse.

only bureaucrats and hucksters.

Don't worry, Serafoll. Today, I will kill you and take away the title of Leviathan that belongs to me by right. Then the Office will become the god of the new world, though only as a symbol. And the "system" and all the laws will be recreated by us. Michael, Azazel, Sazeks Lucifer - the era of your reign has come to an end.

The era in which we needed gods has come to an end. God is not needed, God does not exist. Prayer to God will do nothing. Our time is too important to waste on this. At the moment, civilization is advancing and developing at an ever faster pace. Thus, I declare that the God we have always known is only a creature, and by giving up our belief in him, we can prove that God does not exist.

Our world is an era of cruelty, violence, and when a person falls into such a funnel, he feels this power of evil on himself.