The Cadet Monastery

This audiobook features a radio performance based on Nikolay Leskov’s story “The Cadet Monastery.” It reveals the worldview of the Russian person, with its distinctive strength, faith, compassion, and spirituality. “We didn’t have a shortage of the righteous—and we won’t have one either,” Leskov is convinced. The work by this classic of Russian literature is dedicated to the problems of “moral valor” during a period of “dark” times, which were defended by example by “service people”—educators of the First St. Petersburg Cadet Corps. The author’s memories of his studies there formed the basis of the story.