In 1608, at the height of the Russian Troubles, the Polish army of Jan Peter Sapieha, having defeated the tsarist regiments at Rakhmantsevo, approached the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. And exactly 228 years ago, Dmitry Donskoy's regiments left the monastery on the Kulikovo field along the same road. The future cast a shadow over the past. Mystically related milestones touched...