Abstract
Abstract Solovki Monastery, founded in the first third of the fifteenth century, merged an idiorrhythmic monastic cell life within the community walls with a communal life of monastic labor, church services, and extensive economic activity by the beginning of the seventeenth century. The pious literature of the monastery’s saints’ lives promoted the ideals of both a life of community obedience to pious spiritual leaders, and of an eremitic life striving for stillness (hesychia). Tension between these two monastic ideals is evidenced in subtle ways in the major works of hagiography regarding the monastery’s founders, Zosima and Savatii, its well-known Hegumen Filipp (Kolychëv) and the life of Hegumen Irinarkh. However, a short, little-known Life of Nikifor highlights both tensions and symbiotic relations between the monks and nearby anchorites.
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