John Shahovskoy and Tolstoy
The work of Tolstoy and the Church by Archimandrite John of San Francisco reflects a spiritual duel between the pastor and the count, whose speeches become the preaching of the Russian revolution, which, from the point of view of Archimandrite, has spiritual roots (associated with the denial of the Church, teachings about the resurrection of Christ, mysteries, dogmas, a symbol of faith), the understanding of which his work is devoted to, illuminating the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia as a whole, characterized by the term «state of charm», that is the inability to distinguish the Good and the evil.