Sazetak
Abstract:
It can truly be said that, with the violent overthrow of Tsarist Russia in 1917, Holy Russia, with its long tradition of Orthodox spirituality, was brought to an end. Thereafter all that remained was a communist wasteland. Nevertheless there persist in Russia today a number of things which directly recall the Christian past: the most visible is the physical presence everywhere of beautiful (but closed and unused) Orthodox churches; the most spiritual are the icons, which one may view in abundance in certain churches (conserved as museums) and galleries; the most important is the continuing existence (in pitifully truncated and harassed form) of the Orthodox church itself; and the most touching is the continued adherence of many Russians (including a proportion of younger people) to the Orthodox religion
Sažetak:
Uistinu bi se moglo reći da je sa svrgavanjem Carističke Rusije 1917. godine, Sveta Rusija, sa svojom dugom tradicijom pravoslavne duhovnosti, ugledala svoj kraj. Nakon toga, sve što je ostalo bilo je komunistička pustopoljina. Pa ipak, u Rusiji je opstalo mnogo toga što danas izravno podsjeća na tu kršćansku prošlost: u tom smislu, najvidljivija je posvudašnja prisutnost prelijepih (ali zatvorenih i nekorišćenih) pravoslavnih crkava; najduhovnije su ikone, koje se u izobilju mogu naći u izvjesnim crkvama (konzerviranim kao muzejima) i galerijama; najvažnije je nastavljeno postojanje (u tužno prikraćenom i suzbijenom obliku) same Pravoslavne crkve; a najdirljivija je nastavljena privrženost mnogih Rusa pravoslavnoj religiji (uključujući i izvjestan udio mlađih ljudi).