Optina pustyn yavilas sredotochiem dukhovnoy zhizni Rossii v XIX veke. Pod okormleniem optinskikh startsev nakhodilis mnogie deyateli russkoy slovesnosti, filosofii, iskusstva. V chastnosti, adresatami prepodobnykh startsev byli svyatiteli Filaret moskovskiy i Filaret kievskiy, Sergiy Lyapidevskiy, Ignatiy Bryanchaninov, suprugi Kireevskie, Vl. Solovev, S. P. Shevyrev, M. P. Pogodin, grafini Obolenskaya, Panina, Osten-Saken, knyazya Shakhovskie, Miloradovich, pisatel N. V. Gogol, literaturnyy kritik Pavel Annenkov i mnogie drugie svetskie i dukhovnye litsa, ostavivshie zametnyy sled v istorii...
Optina pustyn yavilas sredotochiem dukhovnoy zhizni Rossii v XIX veke. Pod okormleniem optinskikh startsev nakhodilis mnogie deyateli russkoy slovesno...