Description

The short hagiographical text presented here recounts the life of Makarii (born Mikhail Yakovlevich Glukharev, 1792‒1847), known as the “apostle of the Altay,” and describes his followers. Makarii was a noted linguist and scholar who taught at several seminaries in European Russia before asking to be sent as a missionary to Siberia. He was part of a group that established the Altay (Altai) Spiritual Mission at Biysk. Makarii believed that missionaries would have more success if they had a new translation of the Bible into Russian. He asked the ...