Avva. Mamin-Sibiryak D.N.

“Before the vessels of the churches were wooden, but the plastan are gold, and now the vessels became gold, so wooden priests...”

these words of the distinctive Russian writer D. N. Mamin Sibiryak said to him by him Through one of their heroes, the most in the best way represent the reader what this book is about. The clash of the old and new type of Russian Orthodox priest, the old and new nature of the confession of faith is the main topic in Avva and other stories included in this collection.