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Since 1911, the young teacher began giving lectures, which were always popular with listeners. S. Volkov recalled “his brilliant public lectures about the Church and Russia.” “The lectures I heard,” wrote a former MDA student, “contained an introduction to the discipline being studied and were read in excellent language. They had a lot of journalistic element, responses to modern times... He could not calmly narrate, ...but had to burn, ignite his listeners, argue, polemicize, prove and refute. Now I think that apologetics would have suited him better than exegesis. He was never just a theoretician: he was a man of action, always combining theory with practice” 108. It should be noted here that, as mentioned above, at the 1st Department of the New Testament of the MDA, exegesis was taught precisely in an apologetic vein, and the interpretation of the Gospel texts was supposed to include a refutation of “all false and blasphemous theories, now especially zealously disseminated” 109. So the polemical orientation of Vladimir Troitsky’s lectures fully corresponded to the content of the subject of the department he occupied. At the teaching department, Vladimir Alekseevich quickly got used to it and “from the 4th or 5th lecture he began to feel exactly the same as at home,” despite the fact (or maybe because) that he read the lectures from memory and made it a rule: “not to take a notebook even to the academy” 110. The year 1912 became very fruitful in the life and work of Vladimir Alekseevich Troitsky. He teaches, publishes articles, and travels. But, of course, the main event for him this year is the completion and defense of his master’s thesis. Volkov Sergey. Last at the Trinity: Memories of the Moscow Theological Academy. – M.; St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 1995. pp. 112, 114. Journals of meetings of the Council of the Moscow Theological Academy for 1910 // Theological Bulletin. 1911. No. 4. P. 402 (5th page). Troitsky V. A. Letter to the priest. To Leonid and Lydia Arkhangelsky from [early November] 1912 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky.