On Youth Day in the city center, the Diocese held a literary quiz “Battle for Hearts”translated

On Youth Day, with the blessing of Archbishop Theodore of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka, the diocesan department for work with youth, together with the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Kamchatka Territory, held a literary quiz “Battle for Hearts” in the center of the city for children from the labor camp. The quiz is dedicated to Russian classical literature.

Four teams competed for the title of the best in knowledge of Russian classics. The winners received prizes from the youth department of the diocese - books. Among the books: the Gospel, the autobiography of Metropolitan Nestor “My Kamchatka” and works of Russian classics in youth covers. The guys from the Orthodox youth helped me run the game.

One of the quiz questions was: “Who was the hero of Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons,” Evgeniy Bazarov?” says priest Roman Nikitin, head of the youth department of the diocese. — Bazarov called himself a nihilist (from the Latin nihil - nothing). He says about himself that he “doesn’t believe in anything” and denies all universal human values ​​and ideals: faith in God, art, moral standards. A medical student who believes that he knows everything only by slightly discovering the beginnings of medicine. This is how Turgenev generally depicted those who appeared in Russia in the 1860s. nihilists...