It is a number of years since I read Schmemann, including his diaries just after they appeared in English 10 years back. All my instincts tell me that he will not ‘work’ in contemporary Russia. It is difficult to put into words, but it is like something to do with what happens to cultivated Russians 20 or so years after they or their parents leaving Russia. There is a ‘rough sharpness’ which is lost.
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