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Like everything on our earthboth the simple and the. Millions of copies of this book have sold in russia. Then, while working in my parish bookstore, person after person would point to it on the shelf, and ask if i had read it. Everyday saints and other stories, the english version of russias numberone bestseller, had its american release on 1 october 2012. Archimandrite tikhon shevkunov is a priestmonk of the.
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