Pe malul râului dumnezeiesc: însemnările unui ortodox, vol. 2

by Sergei Nilus, Teoctist Caia (trad.)

Serghei Alexandrovici Nilus (1862-1929) este un scriitor rus remarcabil. Fiul unei familii de emigranţi elveţieni, Nilus a studiat dreptul şi, după ce a absolvit la Facultatea din Moscova, a ajuns magistrat în Transcaucazia. Întâlnirea cu Sfântul Ioan de Kronstadt, care i-a vindecat o infecţie în gât, l-a transformat profund. În 1907, Nilus s-a mutat la Mănăstirea Optina, unde a trăit până la 1912. În acest timp el a publicat mai multe cărţi duhovniceşti, inclusiv „Pe malul râului dumnezeiesc. Însemnările unui ortodox”.

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus (also Sergiei, Sergyei, Sergius, Serge) was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic. He was responsible for publishing for the first time "in full" 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' in Russia in 1905. It appeared as the final chapter of his book 'The Great within the Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer,' about the coming of the Antichrist. An allegedly abridged version had been published in 1903 in the newspaper Znamya, the text was probably inspired the popular novel Barritz by Sir John Retcliffe (pen name of novelist and agent provocateur Hermann Goedsche), and later rielaborated by Pyotr Rachkovsky and Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski, members of Ochrana, the secret-police force of the Russian Empire, to the definitive version known today of the Protocols.

'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is an anti semitic hoax purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. It was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the US in the 1920s.

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis publicized the text as though it were a valid document, although it had already been exposed as fraudulent. After the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, it ordered the text to be studied in German classrooms. The historian Norman Cohn suggested that Hitler used the Protocols as his primary justification for initiating the Holocaust—his "warrant for genocide".

Nilus circulated several editions of the Protocols in Russia during the first decade of the twentieth century. Though the early prints were in Russian, the Protocols were quickly spread to the rest of Europe by Russian expatriates after the 1917 revolution. Some of them claimed that they provided proof that the Jews were behind the Russian Revolution. By the time Nilus died, Europe had been saturated by millions of copies of the Protocols.

Under the new Soviet government, Sergei Nilus was arrested and briefly imprisoned in 1924, 1925 and 1927. He died on 14 January 1929 after a heart attack. In the USSR, possession of Nilus' books was punished by up to 10 years of imprisonment, as "running anti-Soviet propaganda by keeping anti-Soviet literature".

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