Palestinian pilgrim. Travel notes of the Holy East. Archpriest Alexander (Anisimov)

Archpriest Alexander (Anisimov), a parish priest from the city of Izum of the Kharkov province, a full member of the “Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society”, was an “ordinary” clergyman whose pilgrimage notes received incredible fame at the end of the 19th century. During his wanderings over the Holy Land, he began to carry out “pilgrimage folk readings”, collecting in 1887 up to 600 pilgrims in the courtyard of the Sergievsky farmstead in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people in the rays of the "magic lantern" listened to the stories of Fr. Alexandra.

Putings transmit the unique gift of the narrator, which was possessed by Archpriest Alexander. A man who once experienced “extraordinary sadness on the abandoned holy land” and bypassed all historical sacred places.