Otets Sergiy (Father Sergius)

Description

Despite an exceptional youth and a great destiny, Prince Stepan Kasatsky is devastated by his fiancee's infidelity with the Tsar and enters a monastery, where he lives a life of great faith and chastity, though he knows he does not have the capacity for either.

Themes

Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), Monarchies, Monastic orders, Monasteries, Religion, Christianity, Identity, Exclusion and alienation, Celebrity culture, Sexuality, Religious orders, Fables and folktales, Literature