Dostoevsky said that ‘beauty will save the world.’… When these words were spoken, Russia did not yet know what artistic treasures it possessed…. [Yet, our ancient] icon painters saw this beauty, by which the world will be saved, and immortalized it in paints.” (E. Trubetskoi, 1915; machine translation)   If there is in Dostoevsky a…

Previously in the ​​Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the Mother of Jesus was there…”   ” Whenever a person gazes upon an object he receives in himself an image of that object. Those who gaze at the true God receive in themselves the properties of the divine nature. Those who…

Motto: „In the face of such icons as the Vladimir one, it is easiest to understand why the veneration of the Mother of God plays such an exceptional role in the history of Christianity… Mankind in the image of the Mother, grieving for the crucified Son, saw the most complete embodiment of that element of…

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from The Idiot,…

{From the fact that in real life certain people, at a certain stage of spiritual development, and presumably after a certain number of ascending steps taken on the Ladder of askesis and/or suffering, can embody the ‘all are guilty for all ethics’  profitably for themselves and others, it does not seem to follow that anyone,…

Previously in the _Dostoevsky for Parents and Children_ series:   Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel _Poor Folk_, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I])   An Honest Thief (from _Stories of a Man of Experience_, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V])   Nellie’s Story (from _The Insulted and Injured_, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI])   At The Select Boarding School (from the…