Ambrose of Optina
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Ambrose of Optina was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in the 1988 convention of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Icon of St. Ambrose of Optina
Portrait of Ambrose of Optina
Shamordino Convent was founded by Ambrose
The Brothers Karamazov
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The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazo
Ambrose of Optina
…placed in the Vvedensky Church of the Monastery; in 1998, they were moved to the church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. Elder Nektary of The Brothers Karamazov referred to Ambrose as "an earthly angel and a heavenly man." Ambrose is supposed to have been seen surrounded by the uncreated light more than once…
The first page of the first edition of The Brothers Karamazov
Optina Monastery served as a spiritual center for Russia in the 19th century and inspired many aspects of The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's notes for Chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov