Imereti, Georgia. A monastery built by the Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze builds a house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands in front of a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze and his friends build a house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze and his friends build a house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. A friend of the Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze cooks on a campfire on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze talks to his friends in his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze drinks wine with his friends in his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze is bedding with his friends in his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock in front of his house.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze sleeps in his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. A boy in ecclesiastical garb goes to a monastery.
Imeretien, Georgien. Ein Junge im kirchlichen Gewand läutet in eine Glocke in einem Kloster.
Imereti, Georgia. Believers and a priest are standing in a monastery.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. A boy in ecclesiastical garb goes to a monastery.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze goes into mountains along the tracks to find a rock for his new home.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze climbs a wooden ladder to his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock in front of his house.
Imereti, Georgia. A paper icon hangs on the door of an old monastery.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze cuts bread on a rock in front of his house.
Imereti, Georgia. Two monks descend a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze eats with his friends at a table in his house on the rock.
Imereti, Georgia. In the living room of the Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands a wooden cross from his mother's grave.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze sits in front of a window in his house on a rock.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze and his friend are bedding at his home on a rock.
Imeretien, Georgien. Ein Junge im kirchlichen Gewand läutet in eine Glocke in einem Kloster.
Imereti, Georgia. A friend of the Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands on a rock with a stick in his hand.
Imereti, Georgia. The Georgian monk Maxime Kavtaradze stands in front of the rock with a wooden ladder leading to his house.

Georgia, Imereti. In the greenest part of the small Caucasus lives Maxime Kavtaradze on a 131 ft high  rock and hopes to get sacred someday. As yet, he has not reached it. As yet, he is just a monk with a heavy police file. As yet, he has just built one church, carrying off sin after sin with every stone he dragged. As yet, he is just a heartrending penitent who is afraid of hell. Up here, on the rock of crumbling chalk, he escaped it on 131 ft.