Avtobusniki: Russian Orthodox Pilgrims’ Longing for Authenticity
Avtobusniki: Russian Orthodox Pilgrims’ Longing for Authenticity
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阿夫托布斯尼基:俄罗斯东正教朝圣者对真实性的渴望
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2010
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Kormina Jeanne
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作者:
Kormina Jeanne
“We got into such antiquity [starina]! Real Russia, Rus’! What I liked—it was simple folk standing there. They were selling pies for just three rubles each . . . everything on simple stools. The people were Seto. There are only nine hundred of them left. And they also sold apples—only one ruble for a bowl. One could choose them oneself. . . . I was there on the 4 and 5 of October, only two days. I felt as if I had a week of vacation. Along the way one could see . . . nature, these smells, and our lopsided little grey village cottages [izbushechki] . . . I have learned that eyes relax very well while looking at our Russian landscape. . . . And when approaching the city, it seemed to me that we were driving into hell itself. Chimney smoke, advertisements, tobacco smoking. My God! Where did we drive, into a kind of a pit.” These were the words of Vera, a woman in her early fifties who was working as a cleaner in a small publishing house in St. Petersburg. I found Vera through a friend of a friend who worked at the same organization and recommended Vera to me as an experienced pilgrim and a person who loved talking about her travels and giving advice to people on religious matters. The recommendations proved worthwhile. Vera had indeed participated in more than two dozen pilgrimages since her first trip to the towns of Pechery and Izborsk (Pskov province) in 1996, the subject of the above recollections. She readily agreed to an interview, but there was a problem in identifying a place to meet. Vera did not want to invite me to her home because her husband ridiculed her religious activism and, as I heard later, was a heavy drinker. She did not want to meet at her working place, where she held a position of low prestige. I suggested that we met at her church, but she said she was not a member of any particular parish. Like many new Orthodox