A large body of Orthodox clergy were liquidated in Gorky in 1938 for supposedly belonging to a network of subversive agents headed by Feofan Tuliakov, the Metropolitan of Gorky, Bishop Purlevsky of Sergach, Bishop Korobov of Vetluga and others.
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Korolenko's second collection, " Sketches and Stories " ( 1893 ) saw his Siberian cycle continued ( " At-Davan ", " Marusya's Plot " ), but also featured stories ( " Following the Icon " and " The Eclipse ", both 1887; " Pavlovsk Sketches " and " In Deserted Places ", both 1890 ) inspired by his travels throughout Volga and Vetluga regions that he had made while living in Nizhny.
