Tikhon of Zadonsk

Tikhon of Zadonsk
(1724–83)
   Saint, Bishop and Devotional Writer.
   Tikhon was born into a poor family and he was educated in Novgorod, Russia. He became Bishop of Voronezh in 1763, but he resigned four years later and retired to the monastery in Zadonsk. He was the author of a large number of devotional works, many of which are considered to be classics of Eastern Orthodox spirituality.
   N. Gorodetzsky, Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Inspirer of Dostoevsky (1951).

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