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Alice Haisman's avatar

Though I’m an avid reader of substack and have gone even deeper into it for a place to hide, perhaps, since the most recent election, I ran across your post by accident while doing some research on ‘oldest Russian books’ - great post. The poem is indeed heart breaking considered in the context of both the span of Russian history and the particular fate of Navalniy and soon others…

Thank you- I’m glad I ran across your substack.

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David Friedman's avatar

Is it possible that the poet's "The world is a city in which the church" refers not to the Orthodox Christian church that he was a priest of but "the world's church," meaning the way in which the world treats people?

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