- A
starets (Russian: стáрец, IPA: [ˈstarʲɪt͡s]; fem. ста́рица, staritsa) is an
elder of an
Eastern Orthodox or
Eastern Catholic monastery or
convent who...
- 1897
transformed him. There, he met and was "profoundly humbled" by a
starets (elder)
known as Makary.
Rasputin may have
spent several months at Verkhoturye...
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truth of the
accusation Nicholas' wife
relied on
Rasputin (a
Siberian starets.) The
authority of the tsar, who now
stood as a
moral weakling, sank further...
- dedication. In the
Slavic tradition, the
title of
Elder (Church Slavonic:
Starets) is
normally reserved for
those who are of an
advanced spiritual life,...
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Tadej (Thaddeus) of
Vitovnica (10
October 1914 – 13
April 2003) was a
Serbian Orthodox elder and
published author,
credited for
proposing the idea that...
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Orthodoxy was
reflected in
Russian literature, an
example is the
figure of
Starets Zosima in
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
Brothers Karamazov. In the
Russian Orthodox...
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Seraphim of
Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский; 30 July [O.S. 19 July] 1754 (or 1759) – 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1833), born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín...
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Maksymovych and Osyp Bodiansky. He
intensified his
relationship with a
starets or
spiritual elder,
Matvey Konstantinovsky, whom he had
known for several...
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between him and herself.
Father Zosima is an
Elder and
spiritual advisor (
starets) in the town
monastery and Alyosha's teacher. He is
something of a celebrity...
- romanized: Pravednyy
Feodor Kuzmich Tomskiy, Sibirskiy,
starets) was a
Russian Orthodox starets. He was
canonized as a
righteous saint by the
Russian Orthodox...
