The intelligentsia of Sergiev Posad of the early XX century

Perhaps you have visited Sergiev Posad many times and visited the Trinity-Sergius Lavra many times, and it seems to you that you know everything about the city.

On this tour we will take a walk through the quiet, old, central streets and look at the city from a slightly different angle. We will open it through the lives of people who lived or visited here on the eve of the revolution, the Civil War, in the first years of Soviet power. These are outstanding individuals and ordinary people: statesmen and cultural figures, scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, clergymen.

The tour will feature well-known noble names: Khvostovs, Trubetskoys, Samarins, Olsufievs, Mansurovs, Komarovskys and other families, who on the eve of the revolutionary events in Russia come "under the cover of the Monk." The persecution suffered by many of them did not shake their moral choices. Through the trials that fell to their lot, carried to the end of their days faith, purity, inner freedom.

On this tour, I will help you understand how provincial Sergiev Posad is connected with the Big History. You will learn that the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna Romanova founded in our city, in which house the head of St. Sergius of Radonezh was hidden, you will see the preserved house of Father Pavel Florensky, a memorial sign “To those who suffered during the years of persecution and repression.” I will also show you the place where millions of rich Moscow merchants are hidden. And, of course, we will admire the unforgettable view of the Lavra, between the rows of ancient houses - a favorite place of Posad artists.

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