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An absorbing in-depth study of the life of starets Tavrion (Tikhon Batozskii) (1898-1978), who took part in the secret election of the Patriarch in 1926. He subsequently spent nineteen years in labour camps and exile, was freed in 1956, opposed Khrushchev’s religious persecution and closing of churches, and was ‘deregistered’ by the state. He was a father superior of Glinsk Hermitage, confessor at the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaia monastery in Latvia, and greatly influenced the Catacomb church. Based on historical research, a rich memoir literature, and the author’s own meetings with Tavrion. |
