Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life

English

ISBN: 0884652041

EAN: 9780884652045

Category: History / Europe / Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Publisher: Holy Trinity Publications

Release Date: 10/01/2011

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis:

A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 feet. Native Altai tribesman Mikhail Chelvalkov vividly describes the physical beauty of the region while chronicling many of the encounters that took place throughout his life as the population transformed from competing nomadic pagan tribes to a settled and harmonious Orthodox Christian culture. One of the first native disciples of the Russian Orthodox missionary priest Makarii Glukharev—who was made a saint in AD 2000—Chelvalkov’s testament provides invaluable insights for students of Christian mission, ethnography, geography, and botany.

Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 168