Chapter 2. Notes Of The Life Of The Deceased Priest And Monk, The Elder Zossima, Taken From His Own Words By Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
(a) Father Zossima’s Brother.
Beloved fathers and teachers, I was born in a distant province in the north, in the town of V. My father was a gentleman by birth, but of no great consequence or position. He died when I was only two years old, and I don’t remember him at all. He left my mother a small house built of wood, and a fortune, not large, but sufficient to keep her and her children in comfort. There were two of us, my elder brother Markel and I. He was eight years older than I was, of hasty, irritable temperament, but kind-hearted and never ironical. He was remarkably silent, especially at home with me, his mother, and the se
