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*Sergei's 1922: Arrived arrival in Paris. Artistic lent itself to artistic exhibitions of Sergei's works, which attracted the attention of the French media.:Frustrated However, he was growing increasingly frustrated by the inability of art to express purity, and however much he tried he couldn't escape this reality.:Saw He also grew to see that rational knowledge as was entirely unable to provide an answer to the biggest question, the problem of death.*In 1924: Due , Sergei came to Sergei's the realisation that Christ's precent precept to love God totally with all of one's being was not merely a psychological thing, but ontological, and ; that this total love was the only way to relate to God; and that love had to be a personal thing by definitional necessity, and the necessity on Holy and Great Saturday of love being personalthat year, Sergei he returns to Christianity on Great Saturday. Experiences He experiences the [[Uncreated Light (]] in a strength unmatched to the end of his life)and, as a result, distances himself from his artartwork.::Sergei then became among the first students of the [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute]] beginsin Paris. Sergei among first students. Was He was lectured by Fr Sergius [[Sergei Bulgakov ]] and [[Nicholas Berdyaev; however]], but while both influenced Sergei, problems with each (Bulgakov's [[sophiology ]] and Berdyaev's anti-[[asceticism, respectively]]), meant that limited the influence they had on Sergei was limitedthe future Elder.*In 1925: Finding , finding formal theological study to be inherently unfulfilling, Sergei leaves the Institute and Paris for to become a monk on [[Mount Athos]].