Women of the catacombs : memoirs of the underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia / edited and translated by Wallace L. Daniel, foreword by Roy R. Robson, preface by Archpriest Aleksandr Men. - 1 online resource (xxxix, 207 pages) : illustrations. - NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies .

Translation of selections from Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia's Katakomby XX veka.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Fr. Serafim -- Fr. Pyotr Shipkov -- My Journey -- My Childhood and Youth.

"This book offers an intimate portrait of two courageous young Russian women and their struggles to maintain their integrity and personal values in Stalin's Russia, from the 1930s to the 1950s" --



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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Soviet Union--Biography.


Christian martyrs--Soviet Union--Biography.
Persecution--History.--Soviet Union


Electronic Books.

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