| Презентация «Несвятых святых» в Библиотеке Конгресса США 5 октября 2012 года в Библиотеке Конгресса США состоялась презентация английского перевода книги архимандрита Тихона (Шевкунова) «Несвятые святые». Пресс-конференция, на которой присутствовал автор книги, журналисты американских и российских СМИ, представители русской диаспоры, сопровождалась выступлением хора Сретенского монастыря. По окончании презентации отец Тихон ответил на многочисленные вопросы участников конференции и подписал книги всем желающим. Сотрудники Библиотеки Конгресса, организовавшие презентацию, подготовили небольшую выставку, посвященную раритетным изданиям дореволюционных издательств России. Английский перевод книги архимандрита Тихона, имеющий название «Everyday Saints and Other stories» можно приобрести на сайте издательства Pokrov Publications . Фото: Михаил Родионов/Православие.Ru Комментарии читателей 2014-04-19 19:05 Людмила Арбузова : отец Тихон,ваша книга у меня живет самостоятельной жизнью.прочитавший просит разрешения дать прочитать родственникам,друзьям и т.д.в итоге она ко мне приходит раз в полгода и снова уходит.и сейчас она на руках.радость испытываем.православие это религия радости.ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ!людмила. 2014-01-21 10:53 Михаил : Благодарю о.Тихон,очень вдохновляющая книга.Дай Вам Бог написать еще в том же духе. 2013-12-27 15:57 Наталия : Низкий поклон за книгу отцу Тихону. Живу в Якутии. Книга появилась в продаже в лавках при храмах в 2011-12г. Я получила ее в подарок от друзей. А вскоре наш настоятель отец Андрей во время проповеди с амвона советовал прихожанам прочесть эту книгу. Книга ценна еще и тем, что повествует о нашем сегодняшнем времени и о людях, многих из которых мы видели и по ТВ и вживую. Приехала в Украину и у родных увидела ее и здесь эту книгу читают с большим интересом. 2013-05-16 17:58 ЛЮБОВЬ : я молдованка я получяла эту книгу в подарок от моей роботодтельницы на каждой странице этой книги я находила чтото полезное для своей душе СПОСИБО ВАМ ОГРОМНОЕ |
| Photo: pravoslavie.ru His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov, the author of the best-seller Everyday Saints , presented the Chinese translation of his work in Hong Kong on Monday, reports TASS . “Although it’s just a crumb, it’s still our humble contribution to the strengthening of the mutual understanding of the peoples of Russia and China. If it somewhat opens to Chinese readers the most important thing, what we have in the spiritual life in Russia, I’ll consider my mission accomplished,” His Eminence said at the event at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. The initiative to translate the book into Chinese was launched in 2014 . The book release drew diplomats, journalists, public figures, and representatives of the Russian club in Hong Kong and the local Orthodox parish. Professor of Russian philology Liu Wenhai, President of the Chinese Association for the Study of Russian Literature, says he spent nearly a year translating the nearly 400 pages and 200,000 characters. “It is distinguished from many other religious books by the fascinating narrative, the sincere tone, and the absence of strict moral teachings and theological sermons,” Wenhai said. Illustrations for the Chinese translation were handled by Zhou Changsin, who visited Russia and prepared 25 thematic paintings. He is considered the founder of the style of Chinese oil painting characterized by its fine details and expressive tones. Everyday Saints has already been published in 18 different languages and sold 3 million copies, Met. Tikhon noted. The Swedish translation was published just a few days ago as well. Met. Tikhon was also in China in July to present the Chinese translation of the book Word of a Pastor by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. “In China, unfortunately, little is known about Orthodoxy, which is the foundation and core of the spiritual life in Russia. At the same time, we find considerable interest, firstly from educated people, academic circles in China, about what Orthodoxy is,” he said. |
| Revealing secret lives of saints in Russia " s Orthodox literature/Православие.Ru Revealing secret lives of saints in Russia " s Orthodox literature Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, abbot of the small, yet very active Sretensky Monastery. Source: ITAR-TASS. Alisa Orlova One of the most popular books among Russian readers right now could be considered a modern version of The Lives of the Saints, Everyday Saints , a book about the lives of monks and priests written by a monk is sitting on the Russian bestseller lists and selling out its print runs. In September 2011, the Olma Media Group debuted a new book at the Moscow Book Fair. The book was Everday Saints by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, abbot of the small, yet very active Sretensky Monastery, and it tells miraculous – albeit true – stories from the lives of contemporary Orthodox monks and priests. Olma already bet big on the book, giving it a 60,000 copy first print run – five to ten times higher than a standard first printing. Nevertheless, few saw the real miracle coming – the book has made it on to the list of bestsellers in Moscow bookstores and has remained there for many months; there have already been four editions and the total number of copies exceeds 800,000. Online bookseller Ozon.ru has nominated Everyday Saints for the Runet award and it is leading the popular vote for the prestigious«Bolshaya Kniga» (Big Book) Prize. Archimandrite Tikhon’s book has been translated into Serbian, Greek and French, it is being translated into English and talks are underway to have the book translated into German, Italian and French. The book has become a way for ordinary Russians to learn about religious life. The stories do not seem like the typical relgious literature written for neophytes, which combine a Soviet-style didactic tone with tried-and-true parables from the Bible; these are abundant in any Russian church shop. The stories are also unlike the other kind of religious literature common in Russia – more philisophical texts that require some preparation and knowledge of the faith to appreciate. Everyday Saints is a book accessible to all readers. |
| " Everyday Saints and Other Stories " , Russia " s Number One Bestselling Book, Released in English This October MOSCOW, October 5, 2012 Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov). Everyday Saints and Other Stories. Translation by Julian Henry Lowenfeld. Pokrov Publications, 2012. 504 pages, illustrated. ISBN 978-0-9842848-3-2, 978-0-9842848-4-9. Everyday Saints and Other Stories , the English version of Russia " s number one bestseller, was released in the U.S. on October 1, 2012. Archimandrite Tikhon will present the book and answer questions at the Library of Congress in the European Conference room of the Jefferson Building, at 11:00 am, October 5, 2012. He will also be available for select interviews, upon request. A national sales success reminiscent of the Harry Potter phenomenon, this amazing work portrays people the author knew personally who were like Dostoevsky " s starets Zosima. It has already won two Russian national awards: the prestigious " Book of the Year " award, and the Russian Internet Award. There were 30 times more votes for this book in the Internet competition than the next runner-up. The phenomenal success of Fr. Tikhon " s book is " causing a real shock to all the booksellers in Russia, " as one baffled critic has written. This book, written by a priest and modestly displayed in several Moscow bookstores, not only instantly exhausted its print run of 60,000 copies, but also a second printing of 300,000 copies. Those copies left the shelves within one month. Less than a year has passed since the book " s release and the book has been reprinted six times-a total of 1,100,000 copies. The total number of electronic versions purchased is estimated at no fewer than three million copies. Moreover the book is being translated into 10 European languages and will soon be sold all over the world. With recent attacks on the clergy by the media, it is hard to imagine anywhere in Western Europe or the United States where a book written by a priest, about the church, would not only become a runaway national bestseller and leap off the shelves of the all the secular bookstores, but also cause traffic jams on Internet sites. |
| “Everyday Saints” wins popular vote in major Russian literary competition admin 29 November 2012 Moscow, November 27, 2012 The original Russian version of Everyday Saints and Other Stories by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) has won Russia’s highly prestigious “Big Book” literary award for the most popular book. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, November 27 in Moscow. Readers in Russia were invited to vote for their favorite book out of fourteen finalists on the website, Bookmate. The readers were given an opportunity to freely access the text of the book on the site and read it before they entered their vote. There were two first place awards given by “Big Book”—one determined by a jury, the other by popular vote. The jury chose My Lieutenant , a World War II novel by Daniel Graninu, while an overwhelming majority of readers chose the book of stories by the Abbot of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov). This is the second major award earned by Everyday Saints in 2012. In September, it won the “Book of the Year Award” for best prose, also by a wide margin. The book became a runaway bestseller from the time of its release in late 2011, with over a million copies sold. Just a week before the “Big Book” laureates were announced, Archimandrite Tikhon in an online conference stirred even greater enthusiasm among his readers when he confessed that he would not be against writing a sequel. The English version of Everyday Saints was released on October 1, 2012 by Pokrov Publications . Source: Pravoslavie.ru Tweet Donate Share Code for blog “Everyday Saints” wins popular vote in major Russian literary competition admin Moscow, November 27, 2012 The original Russian version of Everyday Saints and Other Stories by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) has won Russia’s highly prestigious “Big Book” literary award for the most popular book. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, November 27 in Moscow. Readers in ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| Everyday Saints and Other Stories being translated into Chinese Source: Pravoslavie.ru Natalya Mihailova 14 June 2014 Shanghai, June 12, 2014. On June 9-11, 2014, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and on the Shanghai International Studies University’s invitation, executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture and Abbot-Superior of the Moscow Sretensky Stavropegic Monastery Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) visited Shanghai. The university’s Russian language and literature department has launched an initiative to translate Archimandrite Tikhon’s book, Every day Saints and Other Stories , into Chinese. Dean of the department professor Chan Zh Li and Archimandrite Tikhon have signed an agreement about translation and publication of the book. The university President professor Cao Deming, teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students were present at the signing. Also negotiations for cooperation between the Patriarchal Council for Culture and the Shanghai International Studies University were held. Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Everyday Saints and Other Stories being translated into Chinese Natalya Mihailova The university’s Russian language and literature department has launched an initiative to translate Archimandrite Tikhon’s book, Every day Saints and Other Stories, into Chinese. Dean of the department professor Chan Zh Li and Archimandrite Tikhon have signed an agreement about translation and ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. |
| Everyday Saints and Other Stories Wesley J. Smith 10 March 2013 March 8, 2013 Thirty years ago, who would have dreamed that a 490-page book by a Russian Orthodox monk would sweep Russia and sell millions of copies around the world? But that has been the deserved publishing history of Everyday Saints and Other Stories , recently translated into English. The book is all the rage among American Orthodox Christians, but deserves a far wider audience. Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and “fools for Christ,” its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions—even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world. The picture from the official site of the book in Russian. The story of “The Difficult Father Nathaniel”—whose photo appears on the cover—is the standout. (In Orthodox monasticism, all monks are called “Father” whether or not they are priests.) The Pskov Caves Monastery ’s eccentric treasurer, an obsessive hoarder who “usually carried an old canvas bag over his shoulders, in which just about anything might be found, ranging from moldy crumbs of dried bread given to him ages ago by some old grandmother, to perhaps one million rubles in cash,” was a power unto himself, both terrifying novices and somehow unanswerable to his own abbot—even as he fully complied with all his assigned duties (known in Orthodoxy as “obediences”). In a hilarious example of masterful rope-a-dope resistance to authority, Fr. Nathaniel repeatedly thwarts attempts by the abbot to inspect his cell. Finally, the dreaded invasion could be prevented no longer. As the abbot enters the room, he asks, “Why is it so dark in here? Don’t you have electricity? Where is the light switch?” Fr. Nathaniel tells him mildly that it is on the right. “Just turn the handle.” Then: |
| “You will not be able to put it down.” A review of “Everyday Saints”, by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) Russian literature has a long history of dealing with Church themes. Pushkin, Leskov and Chekhov come to mind at once. However, these themes are also central in Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and more recently in Pasternak and Soloukhin, and in fact they are present in all Russian literature, as an underpinning and uniting background of spiritual and cultural values. What is original about this book is that the author is not just a very talented writer with a sensitive artist’s heart, but he is also a monk, priest and senior archimandrite in Moscow, the Superior of Sretensky Monastery, Fr Tikhon Shevkunov . And, above all, what is original is that this book has been written now, as a monument to what has risen a generation after the death of three generations of forced – and failed – State atheism. In other words, this book breathes Resurrection. A spiritual child of the ever-memorable Elder Ioann Krestyankin of the Pskov Caves Monastery, Fr Tikhon has made his historic, central Moscow Monastery into a bastion of genuine Orthodoxy, with one of the best choirs in Russia. There is to be found a prominent seminary, with several international students, the best Orthodox bookshop in Moscow and probably the best and biggest Orthodox website in Russia ( www.pravoslavie.ru ), which also has an English-language section . Apart from being a gifted writer, Fr Tikhon is also a film-maker (‘A Byzantine Lesson’), runs the anti-alcohol campaign in the Russian Federation, is responsible for Church-cultural relations, and is a great friend of the Church Outside Russia – we see him regularly. His book, Everyday Saints , is being translated into ten languages, the Greek edition having already appeared. Now we have the English edition of ‘Nesvyatye Svyatye’ (literally, ‘Unholy Saints’). This is a bestseller in Russia, having sold the unprecedented number of 1,100,000 paper copies and millions of electronic copies since it appeared one year ago. It has been read by all, believer and atheist alike, has changed lives, and really is unputdownable, as I know myself when I read it in one more or less continuous eighteen-hour sitting in September 2011. Little wonder that in Moscow it has been awarded the ‘Book of the Year’ prize for 2012. |
| Review of the French Edition of “Everyday Saints” Jean-Claude Larchet On April 3, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) presented the French edition of his best-selling book, Everyday Saints and other Stories in Paris, at the libairie La Procure. This edition, entitled, Père Rafaïl et autres saints de tous les jours was translated by Maria Luisa Bonaque. The well-known French Orthodox theologian, Jean-Claude Larchet, wrote a review of Fr. Tikhon’s book, which has been translated into English for us. Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), born in 1958, is an important and influential figure in the Russian Orthodox Church not only because he is reputed to be the confessor of Vladimir Putin (who needs a confessor like everyone else) and Executive Secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, but also because of his activity as abbot. Commissioned in 1994 by the Pskov-Caves Monastery, where he became a monk, to create a metochion in Moscow, he turned the previously abandoned Sretensky Monastery (on Lubyanka, not far from the infamous KGB building) into one of the most dynamic and radiant monasteries in the capital. This monastery, in the years since its inception (it became stravopegial in 1995), has managed to attract numerous people of all stripes and especially many young people, who today still make up the bulk of the crowd that gathers to attend liturgical services. Abbot Tikhon has founded a choir of high quality whose style is particularly characterized by its dynamic tempos. He has opened a seminary (of which he is rector) on the premises. He has created an Internet site, www.pravoslavie.ru , which remains the most important of the Russian Church, constituting a reference source on all areas of the life of the Orthodox Church (it contains, notably, the texts of the daily liturgical services along with iconographic illustrations and ad hoc musical arrangements). It is well anchored in Orthodox tradition, unlike the competing website Bogoslov.ru, which is heavily affected by Western influences. He has created a publishing house that is today the most important in Russia. He has also opened the best religious bookstore in Russia and the finest store for icons and religious art in Moscow. |
| “This one—on standby!” A story for volume two of Everday Saints Ivan Rogov In spring of 2014, Pravoslavie.ru published an appeal by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) to readers with an offer to combine efforts and write the second volume of Everyday Saints . The site has received a large number of readers’ stories since then, many of which were published on the Russian sight. The hero of today’s story is a soldier who can really be called a hero: Alexander Petrovich Zhukov has been awarded the medal of the “Golden Star” as a Hero of the Russian Federation. Here is the astounding story of his courage and steadfastness in the faith. You, too, are encouraged to send your stories to: kniga@pravoslavie.ru Alexander Petrovich Zhukov I met Alexander Petrovich Zhukov in the same educational group (adult graduate school). He was modest a man of few words, above thirty years of age, with a medal of the “Golden Star” Hero of Russia on his suit jacket. We (his classmates) first noticed a remarkable character trait of his when he removed his mark of distinction before taking his session exams. It was “so that they would give me realistic grades,” he would answer simply when asked why. We never mustered the resolved to ask him about his heroism, but when we read about him in open sources we were convinced that he really was a Hero of Russia. Winter, 2000. A counter-terrorist operation during the second Chechen war. A group of special forces fell under a fire storm, and only an immediate evacuation could help. The rescue operation was headed personally by the leader of the search and rescue service of military aviation for the Central Caucasus military region, lieutenant colonel Zhukov, who had already participated in scores of military operations (paratroop landings in the enemy’s rear to search and save the crews of downed fighter planes and helicopters, evacuation of encircled Russian divisions, gathering and removing the wounded), including in the first Chechen war. After disembarking from the helicopter in order to organize a rescue operation, under conditions of increased firing and with the aim of saving the lives of those who they had succeeding in lifting onto the helicopter, he gave the command to depart, while he himself stayed behind. |
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