Tag: William Brumfield
Valdai: natural beauty and spiritual vision
William Brumfield, special to RBTH - 20/4/13 Just off the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway, Valdai today attracts visitors much as it did in the past – ... Read More
Bringing Moscow spiritual authority to the North
23/3/13 William Brumfield, special to RBTH Once a bulwark of the Muscovite state in the Russian North, today the Savior Prilutsky Monastery is both a ... Read More
Orthodox monasteries return to glory
William Brumfield 20/10/2012 Few Orthodox monasteries in Russia can claim a more illustrious history than the one founded to the northwest of Moscow in 1479 ... Read More