By the way, the article in Jordanville's Orthodox Life publication is taken from Fr Michael Polsky's book on the New Martyrs.
He, interestingly, draws attention to similarities in the thinking of Rocor's first First Hierarch Metropolitan Anthony and Archbishop Hilarion [Troitsky]. Fr Michael Polsky seems to feel that two were in close harmony in their Church views.
The article in Orthodox Life has so much more life in it. It is by turns gripping, tragic, touching, inspiring.
The Orthodox Word article by MP Met John of St Petersburg seems to have taken much of its material from Fr Michael Polsky but presented it in a far less engaging way. The effect is a certain flatness. One does not feel on the edge of one's chair in concern about Archbishop Hilarion's fate the way one does when reading the Fr Michael Polsky version.
I noticed a tremendous difference, which may have its roots in the fundamental difference between Rocor and the Moscow Patriarchate.
The first full of life and vibrancy. The second prosaic, stilted, not natural, some deadness.