"" Blessed are those who believe, - the warmth of his light "(Griboedov" Woe from Wit ")
From the story of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov "Episcopal Justice":
"It does not feel superfluous to say that in no one of the persons of whom I have to say here (of course, also a Jew), there was no apostate, or indifferent toward religion.
As for Prince Hilarion Illarionovich Vasilchikova, the governor-general of Kiev, his religious beliefs to me, of course, close to unknown, but I think that it was orthodoxy no less than every orthodox Russian dignitary - and maybe even a little bit more, and some . Simple, direct and warm his soul was looking for support in the faith of the people, the people that for the Russian people do not like our native Orthodoxy throughout the inviolable purity and soundness of his teachings.
One highly respected business people and the governor-general management - Andrey Drukart. He was then officer on special assignments for Vasilchikova Prince (later in the post Sedletskii lieutenant governor, he took part in the final destruction of the union). Drukart - Russian-born Lithuanian provinces - had a double portion of the passion to Orthodoxy, which for him was not only faith, but a kind of spiritual banner of the Russian nationality. In addition to performance efficiency, was an excellent reader Drukart in a dramatic way, and a gifted actor. I have not heard of anyone who would read Shakespeare's Hamlet better than it used to read Drukart.
I grew up in his native noble family in the city of Orel, the father, the man is very intelligent, much-read and expert in theology, and his mother, a pious and devout, I learned from the best of religion and at the time of the famous rabbis about. Euphemia A. Ostromyslenskogo, a good lesson that it is always appreciated. Unsteadiness in the religious circles in which I was then rotated in Kiev, is not it, and I was as I was learning to orthodox thinking of my own father and of my superior zakonouchitelya ".
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