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. Book Reviews . BOOK REVIEWS Brenda Meehan. Holy Women of Russia: The Lives of Five Orthodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today. San Francisco: Harper, 1993. x, 182 pp. $17.00. Saint's life as exemplar-both as spiritual tradition and historical source-is updated in Brenda Meehan's book Holy Women of Russia: The Lives of Five Or- thodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today. This meticulously documented - group biography examines the lives of five extraordinary women, which collec- tively span the nineteenth century, from 1812 to 1915. Coming from different so- cial backgrounds, living in different areas of the Empire, the drama of each wom- an's individual struggle for spiritual growth and fulfillment takes place against the background of a little-known institution of nineteenth-century Russian religious life-the privately founded women's religious community. A refuge for women whose psychological, spiritual and often economic needs could not be met either within the confines of secular society, or within the strictly controlled world of government-sponsored monasticism, such communities developed as a grass- roots response to the official policy of monastic suppression instigated by _ Catherine II in 1767. Through a wide variety of source materials-the letters and ' spiritual writings of the subjects themselves, memoirs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

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Russian History , Volume 23 (1-4): 389 – Jan 1, 1996
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-288X
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. BOOK REVIEWS Brenda Meehan. Holy Women of Russia: The Lives of Five Orthodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today. San Francisco: Harper, 1993. x, 182 pp. $17.00. Saint's life as exemplar-both as spiritual tradition and historical source-is updated in Brenda Meehan's book Holy Women of Russia: The Lives of Five Or- thodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today. This meticulously documented - group biography examines the lives of five extraordinary women, which collec- tively span the nineteenth century, from 1812 to 1915. Coming from different so- cial backgrounds, living in different areas of the Empire, the drama of each wom- an's individual struggle for spiritual growth and fulfillment takes place against the background of a little-known institution of nineteenth-century Russian religious life-the privately founded women's religious community. A refuge for women whose psychological, spiritual and often economic needs could not be met either within the confines of secular society, or within the strictly controlled world of government-sponsored monasticism, such communities developed as a grass- roots response to the official policy of monastic suppression instigated by _ Catherine II in 1767. Through a wide variety of source materials-the letters and ' spiritual writings of the subjects themselves, memoirs

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