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Meat in the Soup. Similar evidence that religion in Russia is alive is provided by one of the latest Soviet novels to reach the West (via an Italian translation). The Miraculous Icon is a 19th century moral tale in reverse: hero sinks down and down into the depths of Christianity, is saved in the nick of time by conversion to clear-eyed atheism...
Villains of the piece are mostly peasant oldsters who launch a religious revival when young Hero Rodka finds a buried icon of St. Nicholas near an abandoned church. From a larger village nearby comes Father Dmitry to read the Bible ("All listened attentively with heavy breathing, but in every face it was plain to read that they understood not one word"). Rodka is finally hooked by religion when he hears awesome reverberations in the church tower just before midnight each night and he staggers home convinced that God exists, muttering: "No more future, no more happiness, all finished." (The noises...
...Icons are not mere paintings, and their painting is not a craft but a liturgical art. The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that every icon partakes of the glory of the prototype, breathing an ineluctable essence of divinity. Although the icon painter uses the material means and arts that are at his command, with prayerful approach he shows the eternal aspects...
IVAN MICHAELSON CZAP President, Icon Society of America Member, Icon Society of Paris The Niconian Society Philadelphia...
Glazanov, an animated young man who likens himself to a combination of icon painter and El Greco, claims no political theories. Nevertheless, political furies have forced him into hiding and denied him means of support. Fortunately, foreign ambassadors patronize him, commission him to do portraits of their families. While such patronage keeps Ilya and Nina alive, it stifles the young man as an artist...