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'''Optina Pustyn''' is a male [[monastery]] near Kozelsk which was the most important spiritual center of the [[Church of Russia]] in the nineteenth century. The monastery was famous for the [[monasticism|monastic]] renewal movement in Russia based on the [[hesychasticism|hesychastic]] tradition that had been largely lost in the Russian monastic experience in the eighteenth century.
[[Image:06-tar270-optina-01.jpg|right|thumb|375px|Optina Pustyn Monastery in Central Russia]]
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