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P. V. Stegniy’s book, Head of the Hermitage, is about the fate of Igumen Serafim (Kuznetsov), who, from 1919–1920, transported from the Urals, through the fronts of the civil war, the coffins of the Alapaevsk martyrs, and the relics of the Grand Duchess Elisabeth Federovna and the nun in her convent, Varvara (Yakovleva), to Jerusalem. The biography of Igumen Serafim and his deep spiritual tie with the foundress of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent is viewed amidst the bigger picture of the tragic end to the Russian empire and the role of the Romanov dynasty in it. The spiritual feat of Igumen Serafim is examined in detail. He spent the final 38 years of his life in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives, next to the church of St. Mary Magdalene, where the relics of the martyrs St. Elisabeth and Varvara were laid to rest. A mystery opens up before us; a lone Russian monk who embraced and preserved the Mighty and Holy Russia for us all.
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