Tikhon of Zadonsk
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Tikhon of Zadonsk was an 18th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer whom the Eastern Orthodox Church glorified as a saint in 1861.
Late 18th-century portrait
Old Russian icon of St. Tikhon.
Monument to Tikhon in Zadonsk (sculptors I. P. Dikunov and E. N. Pak)
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
Tikhon of Zadonsk
…reflected them in the character of Bishop Tikhon in the novel Demons (1871–1872) and in the characters of Alyosha Karamazov and of the Elder Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Tikhon was born Timofey Kirillov in 1724 in the village of Korotsko, in the Novgorod region of Russia. When still an infant, he was given…
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