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Kosik Ol'ga

«Silent silences»: the letters of hieromonk Hierarchus (Bocharov) to holy hierarch Athanasius (Sakharov)


Kosik Ol'ga (2012) "«Silent silences»: the letters of hieromonk Hierarchus (Bocharov) to holy hierarch Athanasius (Sakharov) ", Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta. Seriia II : Istoriia. Istoriia Russkoy Pravoslavnoy Tserkvi, 2012, vol. 49, pp. 119-142 (in Russian).

Abstract

The publication is dedicated to the zealous church votary, leading a lot of years in prison, closest friend of prelate Athanasius (Sakharov) — hieromonk Hierarchus (Bocharov). The publication covers 19 letters from the church-historical archive of PSTGU. The letters concern the period between 1954 and 1957. The first published letters were sent from the Bereznikovsk house for invalids, former prisoners, then from Mordovian village Shingarino where his spiritual daughter Nina Vladimirovna Trapani lived, from Moscow and Vladimir where hieromonk passed away.

Keywords

the Russian OrthodoxChurch, persecutions against the church, hieromonk Hierarchus (Bocharov), bishop Athanasius (Sakharov)

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Kosik Ol'ga

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