Andrey the First -Called. Nebiographical biography experience: Grishchenko, Vinogradov

The book about the Apostle Andrei, by definition, cannot be similar to other books that are published in the ZhZL series, because about the Apostle himself, first called by Christ, we know nothing (or almost nothing). And therefore, the attention of readers is not offered the usual biographical narrative about it, but the novel in which the life of the apostle is the subject of scientific search and fierce disputes occurring in different historical epochs – both at the beginning of the 9th century and in the X century, and today. Who was called Christ to the apostle with Andrei? What happened to him after the events described in the New Testament? What were the lost “Acts of Andrei”? Who was the founder of the episcopal department of the future Constantinople? Did the Apostle Andrei travel in Georgia? Was it to Kyiv, Novgorod and Valaam? Where do his genuine relics rest? These questions torment the heroes of the novel: Byzantine monks and scribes, modern scientists and abductors of ancient manuscripts – they all write and rewrite the life of the Apostle Andrei, which …

Author
Grishchenko Alexander Igorevich, Vinogradov Andrey Yuryevich
Editor
Karpov A. Yu.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2013
Series
The life of wonderful people
Genre
Culture and art figures

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