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But even the worm
will turn. . . .
Scholars who have treated the life of the ex-monk Bazhakuloff divide it
into five clearly marked periods: the probationary, dialectical,
political, illumined and expiatory.
The first began in youth when, being driven from his father's house by
reason of his vagrant habits and other incorrigible vices, he entered a
monastery near Kasan. Despite occasional lapses prompted by the hot
blood of his years and punished with harsh disciplinary measures, he
seems to have performed his monkish duties with sufficient zeal. It was
observed, however, that with increasing years he became unduly
interested in questions of dogma. He talked too freely; he was always
arguing. Being unable to read or write, he developed an astonishing
memory for things he had heard and faces he had seen; he brought them
up at inconvenient moments. He grew factious, obstreperous, declaring
that there was much in the constitution of the Holy Russian Church
which ought to be amended and brought up to date.


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