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 RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY
ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION
Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution, by Vera Shevzov. Vera
Shevzov has spent ten years researching Orthodoxy as it was lived in
the years before the 1917 Revolution. In Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve
of Revolution, she draws on a rich variety of previously untapped
archival sources and published works unavailable in the West to
reconstruct the religious world of laypeople. Shevzov traces the means
by which men and women shaped their religious lives in an
ecclesiastical system that was often dominated by bureaucrats and
monastic bishops. She finds vivid displays of resistance to the
official system and equally vivid affirmations of faith. Focusing on
various "centers" of religious life - the church temple, chapels,
feasts, icons, and the Virgin Mary - she traces the rituals, beliefs,
and communal dynamics that lent these centers meaning. Shevzov also
presents the conflicting voices of ecclesiastical officials. She
questions the notion that the only challenge to Orthodoxy at the end of
the ancien regime came from outsiders such as Marxist revolutionaries,
atheistic intellectuals, and urban factory workers. Instead, she shows
that a different but equally great challenge emerged within the faith
community itself. Indeed, the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century is revealed as one of the most dynamic periods in the history
of Russian Orthodoxy, characterized by debates analogous to the
Reformation or the era of Vatican II. This 376-page hardcover with d/j was
published in 2003. Total with shipping is $60.00
 AN ENGLISHMAN IN
THE COURT OF THE TSAR
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the early twentieth century, this
fascinating true-life account reads almost like a novel. Demoralized by
the encroaching liberalism of the Anglican Church, Englishman Charles
Sydney Gibbes travels abroad in a crisis of faith. Finding work as a
tutor to the Russian aristocracy, his world is changed forever when he
receives a personal invitation from Empress Alexandra Fedorovna to
become a tutor to her children. His intimate connection with the
Imperial Family for the next ten years carries him into their
mesmerizing world of elegance and nobility, then is shattered by their
brutal murders at the hands of the Red Army. Following them to Siberia
and later continuing on to China, Gibbes eventually returns full circle
to Great Britain, there dedicating his life as an Orthodox priest to
the memory of the Imperial Family, and the faith he discovered in their
distant homeland. This 296-page hardcover was published in 2000.
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 RISE OF RUSSIA
This book explores in fascinating detail nine centuries of Russian history,
of intrigue, shifting tides of humanity, and sweeping
invasions. These were centuries that made legends of Genghis Khan, the
Golden Horde, and Tamerlane. It is a chronicle of a vastly forbidding
land and an unruly amalgam of peoples, neither Eastern nor Western, nor
even wholly Russian. In his Introduction to this volume, former
Ambassador W. Averell Harriman recalls being told by a Russian writer
that to understand Stalin's Kremlin, it is necessary to understand the
Kremlin of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great and that to understand
them, one had to understand even earlier eras. Rise
of Russia offers the reader a vividly illustrated
guide to these absorbing pages of history. This 187-page hardcover
book was published in 1967 and is a rare find for any student of
Russian history.
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 BLESSED
EUPHEMIA OF SERBIA: THE LIFE OF AN APOSTOLIC ELDRESS
By their nature women are called by God to reflect the spirit of
other-worldliness in this temporal world. Although often hidden from
common view, by virtue of their humility, holy and righteous women have
spiritually illumined the path to heavenly realms in all times. Among
them shines the image of this modern-day heroine, Blessed Euphemia of
Ravanitsa, as it is presented in this biography, lovingly written by
her spiritual daughters. Mother Euphemia is a wonderous charm and power
of spirit. Her external appearance was a reflection of her prayerful
disposition. Her outward activity was boundless: as a young lay ascetic
she preached the Wod of God from village to village; she guided her
large sisterhood and hundreds of lay people through the physical and
spiritual dangers of two World Wars and the communist yoke; she founded
orphanages, educated the young, and translated patristic texts for the
spiritual instruction of her people. Inwardly, Abbess Euphemia lived in
the spirit of the ancient desert Fathers: in fasting, all-night vigil,
and sleeping only in a sitting position. For this, God granted her the
gifts of clairvoyance and healing. A renewer of six monasteries, she
re-established coenobitic monastic life in her country to such an
extent that the monastic rule which she instituted was used in women's
monasteries all over Serbia. Published in 1994, this 144-page paperback
is a treasure and a true testament to a modern-day saint.
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 THE
VATICAN HOLOCAUST
by Avro Manhattan
A sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the
20th century. Startling revelations of forced conversions, mass murders
of non-Catholics, Catholic extermination camps, disclosures of Catholic
clergy as commanders of concentration camps; documented with names,
dates, places, pictures, and eyewitness testimony. Published in 1988,
this 237-page manuscript is a must for any student of World War Two,
Orthodoxy, or Balkan history. Read about the events of the past that
are affecting that area of the world today.
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 NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC
Volume 164
Number 6
December 1983
The Byzantine Empire issue, including these
articles:
1) Rome of the East
2) Gifts of Golden Byzantium
3) Mt. Athos
4) Village from the Past
Marvel at the stunning beauty of Icons from Mount Athos, and relive the
days when Orthodoxy and Byzantium ruled the world.
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