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Another City

A Journal of Orthodox Culture

Denis Akhalashvili

Grandma’s Icons

May 10, 2020 / Denis Akhalashvili

A Russian Still Life by Irina Vorobyeva

When Communist theorist Antonio Gramsci fled Rome for Russia, he was disappointed to discover that Bolshevism was not going to succeed. He concluded that it was the deeply ingrained Orthodox Christian culture of the Russian people that stood in the way. And as many of our readers can attest, it was the babushkas, those mothers of all mothers and fathers, that most of all kept … [Read more...] about Grandma’s Icons

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