And those shoes he is shown wearing nowhere near a shop? Baskakov insists they are counterfeit. “I fixed buckles on almost all of them myself. Those shoes are cheap, but they look festive. I wanted some festivity in my clothes to cheer up after services,” the priest said.The cleric said a doctor told him once that changing things in his life was good for wellbeing, so that’s what he did. And now, “my fame is in my shame”.
