Story of archpriest Nikolay Agafonov "Hermit against the will" in the context of modern orthodox fiction literature

There are investigated the issues and poetics of the work by a modern writer archpriest Nikolay Agafonov Hermit Against the Will considered in the context of the modern Orthodox prose. The main theme of the phenomenon is the issue of spiritual evolution of a person revealed in the light of a number of models: disbelief - first attempts of spiritual search and formal piety - true faith.