Phenomenon Of Pilgrimage In Russian Culture: From Origins To Present Day
Journal: The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Year: 2022

The paper considers pilgrimage as a phenomenon of Russian culture, exploring the history of the emergence and spread of pilgrimage in Russia, the time of its heyday and decline, and the current state. The authors identify several values that, according to Russian theologians of the 19th–20th centuries, St. Theophan the Recluse, Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), as well as an unidentified author of the religious and philosophical book “Outspoken stories of a wanderer to his Spiritual Father”, o