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Tonight being the exact same night as the catastrophic event described here, I thought to post this example of St Feofil's prescient warning to Met Philaret of Kiev : Soon after this, Vladika was again in Kitayev and, meeting Feofil in the monastery courtyard, stopped him and said: "Well, misc...

I never liked Nikolai Berdyaev, even the name makes me feel uncomfortable. I never knew much about him except that he was a big liberal. Having read that he wrote fiery accusations against ROCOR probably at the bidding of his YMCA cronies, I began to wonder who he was. Probably readers of this site...

Oh, sorry, I missed your 2 inputs, d9popov. Thanks for contributing information to help all of us gain a better picture of the YMCA's activities amongst the Russian emigres. So the 1st Serbian Patriarch during the stay of the Russians in Yugoslavia was bought off ? I had no idea. Did this allegianc...

I hope there will be monuments - if not chapels dedicated to - the White Army and its rightful resistance to the outlaw Bolsheviks. And, rather than all the boring never ending emphasis on The Great Patriotic War, instead the focus should include a retrospective look at famous figures who were invo...

Strangely [ to me ], the YMCA and its affiliated organizations operated in newly Soviet Russia with a little persecution, being American capitalists. But still carried on the pre-revolutionary endeavors, whether for good or for ill. Tomorrow being the anniversary of the dreadful Bolshevik Revolutio...

To be balanced, here is the contention of a pro-YMCA writer regarding the usefulness of the YMCA Press to the Russian Orthodox Church : The [ YMCA ] Press played a major role in preserving an important aspect of prerevolutionary Russian culture in Western Europe during the Soviet period until the r...