Bøker av Avril Pyman

A biography of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, based on published and unpublished materials, interviews with surviving contemporaries and the author's own experience as a pupil of Russian emigres, of life in the Soviet Union and of the Russian Patriarchal Church in London.

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 given in the original Russian with prose translations.