studieff

Updated: November 16, 2024

But, instead of being depressed by this tacit refusal, he brightened up and plied us with a series of questions, until he really seemed to take a temporary interest in life, in place of his permanent official interest in death alone, or chiefly. Service was in progress, in accordance with the canons of the Studieff monastery, adopted by St. Fedosy in the eleventh century.

Isabel Florence Hapgood - Russian Rambles