Father Ivan and Father Stefan. Radonezh R.V.

In the same Russian village, two priests served in the parish. One was good, the other was bad. One became a priest by faith and vocation, and the other because of money and human honor. They did not get along, and a war occurred between them, which has been going on from time immemorial in the Church of Christ. And the end of this war was also a primordial, vital.

This story, written in old Russia, was published only once - in the magazine "Bulletin of Europe" in 1881. In modern Russian spelling, it is published for the first time.