Description

The hagiographical work presented here recounts the life of Varlaam (born Vasiliy Fedorovich Nadezhin, 1774‒1846), a monk who lived on the Russian border with Mongolia and ministered to the local population in that region. Varlaam was born into a peasant family in the region of Nizhniy Novgorod in European Russia. In 1811, he went on a pilgrimage to the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (also called Kiev-Pechersk Lavra). Traveling without any documents, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia. Upon arriving at his place of exile, he began ...