books.google.com - Chekhov and Russian Religious Cultureis an innovative study of the Virgin Mary and the "saintly harlots"--Mary of Egypt and Mary Magdalene--as a cultural paradigm encoded in Chekhov's prose. De Sherbinin establishes the authority of the Marian paradigm in nineteenth-century Russian culture with a comprehensive...http://books.google.com/books/about/Chekhov_and_Russian_religious_culture.html?id=w6qCCpYK1TsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareChekhov and Russian religious culture
