Saint Dimitri of Rostov and Dostoevsky

Abstract

Academic literature until now has ignored the possibility of seeing the roots of Dostoevsky’s idea of a God-bearing people in the Saint Dimitri of Rostov’s conception of the passion bearer. But, on the contrary, obvious parallels between the two permit the author to speak of a deliberate coincidence. On the other hand, the two are divided in their conceptions of the reasons for human suffering

Keywords

• SAINT DIMITRI OF ROSTOV
• GOD-BEARING PEOPLE
• CHET’I-MINEI (LIVES OF THE SAINTS)
• PASSION-BEARERS