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• n  a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church

• Next, the conspirators shot the starets a few times, and that slowed him down.
• He was a very Russian Russian, a kind of starets, or holy man, filled with chiliastic dreams of the future of art, with an eye for promotion and a remarkable ability to get under .
• Small wonder that Malevich is seen, in Soviet terms, as the bridge between tradition and innovation: a sort of starets, a holy man or prophet, whose images invoke deep strands of .