Description

Na sluzhenii Altaiu (In the service of Altai) is a long, detailed work that recounts the life of Macarius (born Mikhail Andreevich Nevsky, 1835‒1926), one of the most important Russian Orthodox Church missionaries in the Altai (or Altay) Territory of Siberia in the second half of the 19th century. The book includes a number of photographs and poems intended to enhance the reader’s understanding of this remote region. At the end is a short list of words spoken by the native peoples of the Altai and their equivalents ...