«Бог мира и любви да будет всегда среди нас!»: архимандрит Иоанн (Крестьянкин) и его «Письма из заключения»
Journal: Сретенское слово
Year: 2025

The article presents the author’s historical, cultural and philological observations on the epistolary of Archimandrite Ioann (Krestyankin) and an analysis of his “Letters from Imprisonment”, which includes materials from the investigative case, messages from the time of exile (1950–1955) and the memoirs by V. R. Kabo “Free Spirit”. The largest part of documents consisted of letters from Kargopollag, where Father Ioann spent the first three years in GULAG in Arkhangelsk region. They show the eve