The Cadet Monastery

You are offered an audio play based on Nikolai Semenovich Leskov’s story “Kadet Monastery.” It reveals the worldview of the Russian person, with its distinctive strength, faith, compassion, and spirituality. “Among us, the righteous were not lacking—and they will not be lacking,” Leskov is convinced. The work of the Russian classic is devoted to the problems of “moral valor” during the “dark” period, which the “service people”—the instructors who shaped the First St. Petersburg Cadet Corps—defended by their example. The author’s memories of his study there form the basis of the story.