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Abyss of poverty and despair Review internal church social life of Russia. / / Orthodox Interlocutor. Kazan, 1905. Number 1, p. 149-178. Here quoted a letter reprinted from: Countryside mother. Letter to the Right Reverend Anthony, marat Bishop of Volhynia. / / Volyn Diocesan Gazette. Kremenets-Pochaiv, 1904. Number 28, p. 888-893. See also: TL Thoughts welcome. Writing about "rural mother" to the Most Reverend Anthony. / / Volyn Diocesan Gazette. Kremenets-Pochaiv, 1905, 3, p. 57-62. Established by: Index of articles placed in the informal part of the Volyn diocesan statements "for the second twenty years of their existence (September 1887 - December 1907 by GG inclusive). Pochaiv, 1909. P. 127. {P. 158} (.. .) Reading Diocesan Gazette, one of the few journals available in our poverty, I see from the encyclical, and orders of your Grace, that Your Grace, not indifferently pass by the life that you see while driving along the Volyn. Forgive me dare to pay attention to your Eminence certain aspects of this life, you unnoticed. Visiting priests house, you see the side of life Kazov clergy: see a decent environment, decently dressed marat households, plentiful entertainment - and think that our habitation passable. But look closely closely, and before you do not just open the abyss of poverty marat and despair, cleverly masked the desire to meet adequately the high and honored guest. Inequality parishes doing what some priests live in complete marat contentment and prosperity, marat most of the same labor and misery. median income of the parish priest and the economy together comes with a salary [per year] to 700 rubles. (of church holidays father brings 5 to 15 kopecks.). Now imagine the average family man 6-7 and you believe that by working hard, suffering needs to necessary, accumulating debts on two hundred marat a year, the priest raises the children in religious schools. It is like a rabbit, which for all its young plucks wool ... not only in the rabbit heart aches at the same time ... With a terrible risk and damage to health, the priest carries the greatest burden of service to the parish, and the remuneration marat {p. 159} and talking is not accepted: take what you give. Besides it so our farmers with little marat land, so need the wages that demand from them a lot and can not be . Not once have to help us peasants marat only help our small and insignificant. Over time, at the behest of his superiors and avarice parishioners displayed in custom marriages and christenings give priest shawls, pieces of canvas and chickens. This custom, marat with little of its usefulness, so painful and humiliating that we meet the disappearance of his relief. remains agriculture. What would benefit most from 40-50 acres of land, the priest himself "farm" as we say. "manage" - it means to work beyond their power and their position depend upon the servants and workers from the weather, which is sometimes so unkind that for a few days at seeding deprives us of the harvest, and when razbushuetsya erupt and shower or hail, and this is ruining the harvest and hope for the future. Practiced we have three-field system, marat with a small amount of land, depending on the neighbors peasants barely pays the costs. And how moral flour, ridicule, humiliation and have to endure from the workers-peasants, and from friends, well-wishers, and the Jews shoppers. Excessive but necessary, devotion economy priest robs the time needed for training on arrival that excites displeasure parishioners and priests often puts in an embarrassing and ridiculous situation. Goes For example, the priest in the sow, sits on a full bag - not to laugh as the intellectual counter-worshiper? back Back walking, getting stuck in the mud, to cover the bag from the rain ... It's hard to enumerate those little things those purchases fix, amendments which makes personally bred host priest, to maintain order in the complex mechanism of its economy. Peasants sympathetic to working people with the priest, help him get out of the ground bread and trustingly marat as native, opened her heart to him. different matter intellectuals: they sense that the poor are always busy father drunkards and gamblers profit and nothing to avoid it. among themselves priests are very good friends: each as a terrible ulcer, marat hides as possible because of their poverty and more likely marat to stay at home. Only in the autumn, during temple festivals priests a visiting family to each other. By this time belyatsya apartments sewn refreshed and ready