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* InstantTasteAddiction: Father Augustine, having previously lived in the mountain wilderness since he was four, becomes practically addicted to nut ice cream from the first time he tries it. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he turns out to be an impostor who has never been a monk and has only spent a short while in the mountains, and ice cream has long been his favorite food]].
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* UnexpectedKindness: When stern, autocratic Abbot Gabriel with an infamous HairTriggerTemper suddenly gently and humbly agrees to tonsure Father Michael into the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_Eastern_Orthodox_monasticism#Great_Schema Great Schema]], the brethren of the monastery are [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness as amazed by it]] as they were by Father Michael ''coming back from the dead''.
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* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: When famously HotBlooded Father Gabriel suddenly quietly and humbly agrees to tonsure Father Michael into the Great Schema, the brethren of the monastery are as astonished by it as they were by Father Michael ''coming back from the dead''.
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* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: When famously HotBlooded Father Gabriel suddenly quietly and humbly agrees to tonsure Father Michael into the Great Schema, the brethren of the monastery are practically as astonished by it as they were by Father Michael ''coming back from the dead''.
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* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: When famously HotBlooded Father Gabriel suddenly quietly and humbly agrees to tonsure Father Michael into the Great Schema, the brethren of the monastery are as astonished by it as they were by Father Michael ''coming back from the dead''.
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** Lyubov Cheredova, the spiritual daughter of Hieromartyr Helarion who managed to accompany him to every place of exile except for the last. She lived to be over a hundred, determined to live until she was certain of her confessor getting canonized.
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** Lyubov Cheredova, the spiritual daughter of Hieromartyr Helarion Hilarion who managed to accompany him to every place of exile except for the last. She lived to be over a hundred, determined to live until she was certain of her confessor getting canonized.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Often used by Archimandrite Alipiy against the government. For example, when the authorities try to force the monks to go to polling places during elections (instead of collecting their votes at the monastery), Father Alipiy holds a grand cross procession across the city and a molieben at the polling place. In
Khrushchev’s times, he could have easily been jailed for that, and yet it ''works'' and the monks are allowed to vote at the monastery again.
Khrushchev’s times, he could have easily been jailed for that, and yet it ''works'' and the monks are allowed to vote at the monastery again.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Often used by Archimandrite Alipiy against the government. For example, when the authorities try to force the monks to go to polling places during elections (instead of collecting their votes at the monastery), Father Alipiy holds a grand cross procession across the city and a molieben at the polling place. In
In Khrushchev’s times, he could have easily been jailed for that, and yet it ''works'' and the monks are allowed to vote at the monastery again.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Often used by Archimandrite Alipiy against the government. For example, when the authorities try to force the monks to go to polling places during elections (instead of collecting their votes at the monastery), Father Alipiy holds a grand cross procession across the city and a molieben at the polling place. In
Khrushchev’s times, he could have easily been jailed for that, and yet it ''works'' and the monks are allowed to vote at the monastery again.
Khrushchev’s times, he could have easily been jailed for that, and yet it ''works'' and the monks are allowed to vote at the monastery again.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The monastery's accountant decides to steal $180000 in cash and bolt away to Germany (he holds dual citizenship). However, he decides to do it on the 14th of September 2001, only three days after 9/11, without realising that the security measures on border checkpoints and the meticulousness of customs officials have skyrocketed.
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* JerkassFacade: Archimandrite Nathaniel, the meanest man in the Pskov Caves. After some time, Georgy comes to the conclusion that he simply hides his real spiritual gifts.
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** Mean Father Nathaniel, the monastery’s treasurer and the second one (apart from the abbot) responsible for dealing with the Council, is this trope embodied. [[JerkassFacade Or is he]]?
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** Mean Father Nathaniel, the monastery’s treasurer and the second one (apart from the abbot) responsible for dealing with the Council, is this trope embodied. [[JerkassFacade Or is he]]?he?
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* TurbulentPriest: A RunningGag with Father Raphael, who loved to prank the Council for Religious Affairs.
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* TurbulentPriest: TurbulentPriest:
** A RunningGag with Father Raphael, wholoved loves to prank the Council for Religious Affairs.Affairs.
** One day, Father Avvakum, the monastery's gatekeeper, decides he's had enough of unbelievers wandering in the monastery and he won't let in anyone who doesn't know the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#Niceno-Constantinopolitan_Creed Orthodox Creed]]. That lasts until Abbot Gabriel puts a stop to it.
** A RunningGag with Father Raphael, who
** One day, Father Avvakum, the monastery's gatekeeper, decides he's had enough of unbelievers wandering in the monastery and he won't let in anyone who doesn't know the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#Niceno-Constantinopolitan_Creed Orthodox Creed]]. That lasts until Abbot Gabriel puts a stop to it.
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* PatronSaint: A prominent theme, given the book’s nature. St. Seraphim of Sarov is most frequently mentioned, being the patron saint of the Diveyevo Monastery and of Father Seraphim in the Caves.
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* PatronSaint: A prominent theme, given the book’s nature. nature.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov St. Seraphim ofSarov Sarov]] is the most frequently mentioned, mentioned one, being the patron saint of the Diveyevo Monastery and of Father Seraphim in the Caves.Caves.
** Archimandrite Ioann is the Sretensky Monastery’s patron saint in all but name (since he isn’t canonized officially).
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov St. Seraphim of
** Archimandrite Ioann is the Sretensky Monastery’s patron saint in all but name (since he isn’t canonized officially).
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* ChekhovsSkill: Georgy starts as a student at the Institute of Cinematography, which he leaves after finishing the study to go to the monastery, stating it wasn’t a big loss for the institute. Then, many chapters later, the hierarchs find out he is a qualified filmmaker, and he is tasked with filming religious documentaries. [[spoiler:Once, it becomes a key plot point: when he goes to shoot on location in another city, he finds the first clues to the true character of "Father Augustine"]].
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** Archimandrite Antipa, whom the narrator compares to a large kindly bear.
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** Archimandrite Antipa, whom the narrator compares to a large kindly bear.lion.
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* TheAllegedCar: Father Raphael’s ancient vehicle, which he mends so that it can speed up to 150 km per hour.
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* TheAllegedCar: Father Raphael’s ancient vehicle, which he mends so that it can speed up to 150 km per hour. Still, it can break down in the middle of the road.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat:
** The Council for Religious Affairs, constantly demanding papers to permit any sort of religious activity.
** Mean Father Nathaniel, the monastery’s treasurer and the second one (apart from the abbot) responsible for dealing with the Council, is this trope embodied. [[JerkassFacade Or is he]]?
** The Council for Religious Affairs, constantly demanding papers to permit any sort of religious activity.
** Mean Father Nathaniel, the monastery’s treasurer and the second one (apart from the abbot) responsible for dealing with the Council, is this trope embodied. [[JerkassFacade Or is he]]?
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* AndSomeOtherStuff: The author doesn’t go into the "technical details" of spiritual seances, instead focusing on the horrible effect they had on him and his friends.
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* CassandraTruth:
** When Abbot Gabriel sees [[spoiler:"Father Augustine"]], he immediately yells the latter is a [[spoiler:crook]]. Unfortunately, thanks to the Abbot’s [[HairTriggerTemper reputation]], nobody believes him.
** When Father Ioann tries to persuade Valentina Konovalova to [[spoiler:delay her cataract operation until after she spends two weeks at the seaside]], she is irritated because she thinks that [[spoiler:operation]] is a minor matter and all the doctors tell her to get it over with. [[spoiler:She gets paralyzed on the operating table and dies shortly afterwards]].
** When Abbot Gabriel sees [[spoiler:"Father Augustine"]], he immediately yells the latter is a [[spoiler:crook]]. Unfortunately, thanks to the Abbot’s [[HairTriggerTemper reputation]], nobody believes him.
** When Father Ioann tries to persuade Valentina Konovalova to [[spoiler:delay her cataract operation until after she spends two weeks at the seaside]], she is irritated because she thinks that [[spoiler:operation]] is a minor matter and all the doctors tell her to get it over with. [[spoiler:She gets paralyzed on the operating table and dies shortly afterwards]].
