person
Seraphim of Sarov
St. Seraphim
also: старец Серафим, elder Seraphim
An early nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox monk and hermit of the Sarov Hermitage, venerated for his ascetic life and, in popular iconography, for befriending a bear in the forest -- the subject of the devotional print hanging in Uncle Pupkin's shabby parlor.
Reading notes
- Both Better §45 the elder Seraphim at Sarov Hermitage
A popular devotional print of St. Seraphim of Sarov and the bear, a common icon-corner or wall decoration in ordinary Russian households of the period.