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Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life
Mikhail Chevalkov
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Description for Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life
Paperback. Translation of: Undulbas kerees; originally published in 1864 in Radlov's anthology Samples of the national literatures of the Turkic peoples; published in 1894 in an expanded version in the Moscow missionary journal Orthodox news (no. 5). Translator(s): Warden, John. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGA; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 feet. Native Altai tribesman Mikhail Chelvalkov vividly describes the physical beauty of the region while chronicling many of the encounters that took place throughout his life as the population transformed from competing nomadic pagan tribes to a settled and harmonious Orthodox Christian culture. One of the first native disciples of the Russian Orthodox missionary priest Makarii GlukharevÑwho was made a saint in ... Read more
A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 feet. Native Altai tribesman Mikhail Chelvalkov vividly describes the physical beauty of the region while chronicling many of the encounters that took place throughout his life as the population transformed from competing nomadic pagan tribes to a settled and harmonious Orthodox Christian culture. One of the first native disciples of the Russian Orthodox missionary priest Makarii GlukharevÑwho was made a saint in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Holy Trinity Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780884651840
SKU
V9780884651840
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Ref
99-21
About Mikhail Chevalkov
Mikhail Chevalkov was a pioneer both in his missionary work and in the establishment of the Altai language as a vehicle for literature. He served as a deacon and priest and his translations of the Bible, prayer books, religious songs, and service books we John Warden is a translator and a former lecturer in Russian and Soviet studies at the ... Read more
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