This account brings to light many primary sources that illuminate the story of St. Herman and the wider context of the little-known history of Russian colonization in the Pacific Northwest.
Metropolitan Anastasy was a leading figure of the Russian emigration following the Communist takeover of his country. These reflections are from his diary during the calamitous post-revolutionary period.
An accessible and well organised synthesis of the ancient Christian understanding of death and the afterlife.
A life of this ascetic and visionary of the Kiev Caves Lavra. Considered by some to be the model for the character of the holy fool in the popular Russian film "Ostrov" (The Island).
The services and prayer texts of the Orthodox Church are ancient and inspirational, and this invaluable reference guides priests, deacons, servers, readers, and singers in the customs and practices of the church.
This biography eloquently recounts the journey of an energetic and talented young man who loved life but who, deeply inspired by his Orthodox Christian faith, was willing to sacrifice it as a testimony to his faith in God.
This is the unlikely history of a centuries old church located at the heart of England's capital city.
Recollections of Jerusalem vividly opens up to us a world very different from our own. It affords the rare opportunity to see major world events through the eyes of one shaped by them, but unable to influence them.
This book brings to an English-speaking audience the spiritual counsels of another Russian monastic of the same period.
A remarkably simple and yet profoundly deep narrative, this translation is an introduction to the remote world of the 19th-century Altai: a mountainous region of southern Siberia possessing unique flora and fauna and peaks rising to nearly 15,000 feet.
This is the classic canon of repentance, chanted in parts over the first four days of the Lenten Fast and in its entirety on the Thursday of the fifth week.
This book offers a short history of the iconOs place in the Russian Orthodox Church and recounts some of the miracles associated with its veneration.