Description

This hagiographic text tells the story of the life and work of Mikhail Glukharev (1792–1847), who took the monastic name Makarii. As a missionary to the Altai Mountains in southwest Siberia, Makarii played an important role in the expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church into Siberia in the early 19th century. Makarii was an Old Testament scholar and a linguist who translated a number of Old Testament texts into local languages. In the process, he discovered that there was not a complete Russian translation of the Old Testament; creating ...