Osvobozhdenie ot illiuzii: Zhizn’ i podvig arkhiepiskopa-ispovednika Ermogena [Golubev]
(Freeing Oneself from Illusions: The Life and Achievement of Archbishop-Confessor Hermogenes [Golubev])

By SERGEI BYCHKOV
Moscow, Tethys Publishing-Sam&Sam, 2010, 530 pp.

A classic work by leading Russian ecclesiastical historian Sergei Bychkov. Hermogenes was Vicar of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves. Arrested in 1930 and sentenced to death, he spent a year in solitary confinement then ten years in the GULAG. In the Khrushchev years he resisted the closure of churches. His life exemplifies the story of the Russian church under communism. Richly illustrated.

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