A biographical account of the life of Russian poet Aleksandr Blok.

The Life of Aleksander Blok: The Distant Thunder, 1880-1908 v. 1

Pyman, Avril

Oxford University Press

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Life of Aleksandr Blok: The Release of Harmony, 1908-1921

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Oxford Univ. Pr.

This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. It reassesses the symbolists' achievements in the light of modern research, focusing on their literary works. Prose is quoted in English translation and poetry is given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap for students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, symbolism, modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.

A History of Russian Symbolism

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. It reassesses the symbolists' achievements in the light of modern research, focusing on their literary works. Prose is quoted in English translation and poetry is given in the original Russian with prose translations. There is a valuable bibliography of primary sources and an extensive chronological appendix. This book will fill a long-felt gap for students and teachers of Russian and comparative literature, symbolism, modernism, and pre-revolutionary Russian culture.

A History of Russian Symbolism (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Andrei Bloom (1914-2003) better known as Anthony Bloom, or Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, led an extraordinary life. He was an individual who sought to be in touch with his God yet in solidarity with and responsibility for a tragically disconnected society; a man of God who “knew the world”. From the difficulties of Russian émigré life that conditioned him as “a monk without a monastery”, through the trials and suffering of war and revolution, to his calling as Priest and Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain, he moved between many changing landscapes, striving always to take his bearings in prayer and contemplation. In spite of the collapse of their whole way of life, his parents brought him up to be a generous and courteous friend to those around him. As a surgeon and doctor in German-occupied France, he would provide treatment to those in need irrespective of ethnic or ideological affiliation. In his character, joy in the good and the beautiful was compounded with ardour and tragic depths. This biography explores how Metropolitan Anthony sought the mind of Christ to cultivate and control his own loving heart and occasionally harsh exigence. Avril Pyman draws on a mosaic of available evidence to offer deeper insight into the life and times of a remarkable spiritual teacher, charismatic speaker and priest whose cosmopolitan background, character and experience of science and medicine made a unique and significant contribution to Orthodox Christian thought and practice throughout the world.Table of Contents1. From prince to pauper - Origins and childhood 2. Alienation and Revelation – growing up in exile 3. Conflicting vocations. The formation of a monk ‘in the world’ 4. War – conscription, Resistance, Doctoral Thesis, secret profession as monk under name of Anthony 5. Priesthood, 1949-1957 6. Fame in a Divided World, 1957-1963 7. The International Arena, 1963-1974 8. The Consolidation of the Second Diocese of Sourozh 1974-1988 9. Mission to Russia: ‘glasnost’, ‘perestroika’ and the collapse of the Soviet Union 10. Agony

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Lutterworth Press

The first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose great genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union.&gt;

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Historical

Continuum

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Lindau

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