ALEXANDRA: The Last Tsarina, Crolly Erickson This is historical biography on the grand scale, a sweeping account of a life caught up in the whirlwind of geopolitical events. It is also a more intimate portrait of this enigmatic monarch than we have seen before. With her customary scrutiny, Erickson reveals much about the Empress' complex psychology that will be new even to seasoned readers of Russian history. 384pp $28.00 Hardcover (Saint Martin's - 2001) 7-2001

ALICE: Princess Andrew of Greece, Hugo Vickers Alice is the story of Great Britain’s Princess Alice, who married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903, and from then on led a life overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile. Though the British royal family remained in the ascendant, Alice’s German family ceased to be ruling princes, her two aunts who had married Russian royalty came to savage ends, and her own husband was nearly executed as a political scapegoat. Eventually, Alice was placed in a sanitarium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a “schizophrenic paranoid.” Hers was a life of wealth, power, and tragedy that mirrors the history of royalty in the twentieth century. Includes two 8-page black and white photo inserts. 512pp $18.00 Paper (Griffin - 2003) 3-2005

AN EARLY SOVIET SAINT: The Life of Father Zachariah, Translated by Jane Ellis Father Zachariah was a starets in the 18th century Russian tradition like Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov. He lived for nearly twenty years under Soviet rule and had a profound influence on those who knew him. Despite painful illness and harassing by the NKVD his faith burned ever brighter in old age and he continued to be a source of inspiration to many even after his death in 1936. The Life has passages of a fairy tale quality; dreams, visions, prophecies, miracles and healings are described in a matter of fact way as part of everyday life. They speak to the heart just as forcefully as they did when they were first uttered. 111pp $10.00 Paper (Templegate) 3-2005

ANASTASIA: The Lost Princess, James Blair Lovell $17.00 Paper (St. Martin's) 3-2005

AND HE LEADS THEM: The Mind and Heart of Philip Saliba And He Leads Them offers the reader the writings and speeches of Metropolitan Philip, recording his leadership and stewardship. It is about theology and about life, and how for Metropolitan Philip these concepts are one. It offers an intimate glimpse into his heart and his soul. The pages come alive with his voice and in hearing it, the reader is warmed by God's Spirit. This is not a boring history book of time and era gone past. This book is the story of our life with God, our efforts and God's vision articulated through Metropolitan Philip Saliba. 459pp $22.00 Paper (Conciliar - 2001) 3-2005

ANTON CHEKHOV: A Life - A New Biography of the Great Author and Playwright, Donald Rayfield Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age of forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is aman capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master. 704pp $23.00 Paper (Northwestern - 1997/2001) 4-2001

THE ASCETIC OF LOVE: Mother Gavrilia 2.10.1897 - 28.3.1992, Nun Gavrillia; translated by Helen Anthony A journey into the heart of Love in 94 years and 4 continents. “....Mother Gavrilia was a Nun of the Orthodox Church who became well known internationally for her unique talent as a Spiritual Guide... She was characterized by a quick and lively intelligence which never dimmed with old age. She had both the enthusiasm and spontaneous egerness to help others, at whatever cost in time and devotion. Furthermore she possesed a very remarkable gift for understanding those who came to her for Guidance... - Canon E. Every, 1992 This book is the amazing story of Mother Gavrillia, an upper-class physiotherapist in Greece and England, who left everything behind at age 57 (she died at 94), to serve as a missionary to the lepers and the blind on 4 continents. She was personally acquainted with Mother Teresa, Indira Ghandi and Martin Luther King. 464pp $32.00 Paper (Holy Monastery of Evangelismos - 1999/2000) 3-2005

AT THE CORNER OF EAST AND NOW: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy, Frederica Mathewes-Green A remarkable contemporary tour through the oldest of all Christian faiths continuing the story begun in Facing East by one of America’s most distinctive religious voices. A popular commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and a columnist for Christianity Today, Frederica Mathewes-Green is a unique figure in contemporary literature. In a book eagerly awaited by her growing retinue of fans, she brings readers inside the world’s oldest Christian faith, illuminating Eastern Orthodoxy in amanner similar to Kathleen Norris’s exploration of Benedictine spirituality. An ex-hippe and former social radical, the author often writes humorously about her unusual road from Woodstock to the altar of an Orthodox church where she is the pastor’s wife. At the Corner of East and Now juxtaposes the shifting immediacy of everyday life with the changless grandeur of the Orthodox faith. Weaving her narrative with stories, essays, and reflections on the Church’s sixteen hundred year old liturgy, Frederica Mathewes-Green critiques contemporary culture through the lens of one who seeks to live by the tenets of an ancient spiritual practice. The author offers an engaging and artistic voice - at turns humorous and hands-on, serious and intellectually stimulating. Her supple and highly original style make for an unforgettalbe read. 256pp $14.00 Pape (Jeremy P. Tarcherr- 1999/2000) 3-2005

BISHOP ALEXANDER CHIRA: Prisoner of Christ, Fr. Athanasius B. Pekar, OSBM “Bishop Alexander Chira was imprisoned by the Soviets on February 10, 1949, prior to the suppression ofthe Mukachevo Eparchy. He was condemned to 25 years of prison and hard labor in camps of the Soviet Gulag, since he refused to betray his Catholic faith and join the Orthodox Church. Having been pardoned and released from the prison camp in 1962, he was forbidden to return home. Therefore he made his new home in Karaganda, beyond the Ural Mountains, in Central Asia, where he spent the last five years of his detention working in coal mines. After his release from the labor camp, Bishop Chira remained under constant surveillance of the local secret police (KGB), and was strictly forbidden to perform any priestly functions. Yet he continued his pastoral work under the cover of night, somehow escaping the watchful eye of the KGB. In Karaganda he organized a 15,000 strong Catholic community, mostly of exiled Germans. After persistent efforts, he finally obtained official registration of his community and received permission to build a church in 1977. Only then was he permitted to freely exercise his pastoral ministry. After the dedication of the church, Bishop Chira entrusted the parish to an exiled Lithuanian priest, Father Albinus Dumbljankas, S.J., while he dedicated himself to organizing new parishes. By the time of his death in Kazakhstan in 1982 there were already 12 officially registered Catholic parishes with about 150,000 faithful.” - from the Foreward 30pp $3.00 Paper (Byzantine Seminary Press - 1988) 3-2005

BISHOP GERASIMOS OF ABYDOS: The Spiritual Elder of America, edited by Fr. Peter A. Chamberas When His Grace Bishop Gerasimos of Abydos fell asleep in the Lord on the Feast of the Holy Spirit, 1995, many people recalled his holiness and simplicity of life, referring to him in saintly terms. They remembered his zeal for learning and theological inquiry, his quality as a devout and loyal priest and bishop, his wisdom as a spiritual father that was sought by so many, and, especially his love for the students of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Through these remembrances, questions about his life were asked and many personal recollections were shared about this humble hierarch. Among his few personal belongings, papers were found with the title, "My Life," and a study of the hierarchical prayer of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John. These works by the blessed bishop are included here along with a biography by his nephew, Stylianos G. Papadopoulos, Professor at the Univeristy of Athens, and a reflection by Fr. Ambrose Zographos, one of his spiritual children. 137pp $8.00 Paper (Holy Cross - 1997) 4-2001

BLACK DOG OF FATE, Peter Balakian "In the retrieved testimony of [his ancestors] we can feel a stinging reproach that the 1919 promise of international law—to say nothing of international justice—remains unkept."—Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times Book Review (100 Best Books of 1997). Black Dog of Fate is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian - the firstborn son of his generation - grew up in a close, extended family. At the center of what was a quintessential American baby boom childhood lay the dark specter of a trauma his forebears had experienced - the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915, the century's first genocide. In a story that climaxes to powerful personal and moral revelations, Balakian traces the complex process of discovering the facts of his people's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. In describing his awakening to the facts of history, Balakian introduces us to a remarkable family of matriarchs and merchants, physicians, a bishop, and his aunts, two well-known figures in the world of literature. The unforgettable central figure of the story is Balakian's grandmother, a survivor and widow of the genocide who speaks in fragments of metaphor and myth as she cooks up Armenian delicacies, plays the stock market, and keeps track of the baseball stats of her beloved Yankees. The book is infused with the intense and often comic collision between this family's ancient Near Eastern traditions and the American pop culture of the '50s and '60s. Balakian moves with ease from childhood memory, to history, to his ancestors' lives, to the story of a poet's coming of age. Written with power and grace, Black Dog of Fate unfolds like a tapestry its tale of survival against enormous odds. Through the eyes of a poet, here is the arresting story of a family's journey from its haunted past to a new life in a new world. 292pp $15.00 Paper(Broadway - 1998) 3-2005

BLESSED PAISIUS VELICHKOVSKY: The Man Behind the Philokalia (2nd Edition) Many people today know of the Philokalia, a compilation of mystical, ascetic texts from the ancient Christian tradition which contain teachings on unceasing prayer, interior silence, unseen warfare, and prayer of the heart. Few, however, know of the spiritual Elder who discovered these lost teachings after a painstaking search, and who devoted the rest of his life to disseminating them, putting them into practice, and helping other spiritual seekers to attain union with God through them. This man was Blessed Paisius Velichkovsky. Having lived at the beginning of the modern age, Blessed Paisius has supplied us with a blueprint on how to live like the ancient holy ones even while in the midst of the contemporary atmosphere of confusion, despair, and abandonment of the truth. Today his legacy - brought to America by monks from the Russian Monastery of Valaam, and preserved and cultivated through the eldership of Optina Monastery - is more timely and needed than ever before. Illustrated. 299pp $17.00 Paper (St Herman Press - 1976/2000) 4-2001

THE BOOK OF PONTIFFS OF THE CHURCH OF RAVENNA (Medieval Texts in Translation Series) Agnellus of Ravenna; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis Agnellus’ Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Book of Pontiffs of the Chruch of Ravenna), written in the ninth century, is an essential source for the study of Italian history form the fourth to the ninth centuries. Agnellus seems to have been a well-born priest in the church of Ravenna, and his work is strongly colored by his persoanl experiences. He wrote the book to demonstrate two strongly-held opinions. One was the apostolicity and independence of the Ravennate archbishipric; the other was the moral decline of recent bishops and their erosion of clerical rights. Using the framework of a series of biographies of the bishops of his see, Agnellus presents his highly idiosyncratic view of history. The work is filled with anecdotes, miracle stories, and mini-sermons, as well as information about historical events and artistic and architectural patronage, all of which have made it an invaluable source for those interested in early medieval Italy. Ravenna’s heyday was in the fifth through eighth centuries, when it was the capital first of the western Roman empire, then of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths, and finally of the Byzantine exarchate of Italy. By the time Agnellus was writing, the city and its leaders were struggling to maintian power and prestige in the new Carolingian regime. Agnellus’ work is usually used as a source of information about the illustrious past, and it has been especially useful to art historians who investigate the remarkable monuments that still survive in Ravenna. However, it also provides crucial information about the Carolingian world in which Agnellus lived, a time when the marvels of Ravenna were being copied or literally carried off by emperors who sought to recreate Ravenna’s imperial splendor. This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography. 424pp $35.00 Paper (Catholic University of America - 2004) 3-2005

THE BREATH OF GOD: A Biography of Archbishop Iakovos, George Poulos An excellent biography of an eminent hierarch on the occasion of the celebration of his 50 years in the priesthood and 25 years as a bishop. $11.00 Paper (Holy Cross) 4-2001

BYZANTINE EMPRESSES, Charles Diehl; translated by Harold Bell and Theresa de Kerpely Just as revisions of our view of the Middle Ages have proceeded apace, so have those of Byzantium. The derision of Gibbon, Harnack, and others has given way to vastly more positive evaluations, due to the researches of such as Runciman, Ostrogorsky, Hussey, and the author of our present study, who for years was professor of Byzantine studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. This collection of biographical sketches illuminates the lives of figures that represent almost the whole course of Byzantine history, from Athenais in the fifth century to Anna Savoy in the fourteenth, including Theodora, Irene, Anna Comnena, and others in between. History personalized through the lens of biography. 308pp 30.00 Cloth (Studion - 1998) 4-2001

CATHERINE THE GREAT, Henri Troyat; translated by Joan Pinkham $14.95 (Meridian - 1994) 4-2001

CATHERINE THE GREAT: A Short History (Second Edition), Isabel De Madariaga An eminent scholar of Russian history here presents the most informative, balanced, and up-to-date short study of Catherine the Great and her reign. This edition includes a new preface dealing with recently discovered sources and revised interpretations of the period. 17 illustrations. 256pp $15.00 Paper (Note Bene - 2002) 3-2005

CHEKHOV: The Hidden Ground, Phillip Callow By examining Chekhov’s life within the context of the evolution of his art, the author brings out the hidden ground from which Chekhov’s work sprang and also illuminates the many contradictory and paradoxical elements in his personality. Illustrated. 448pp $20.00 Paper (Ivan R. Dee - 2001) 3-2005

CONSTANTINE CAVARNOS' WORKS SURVEYED VOLUME 1 (Previously Titled: Explorer of Realms of Art, Life and Thought: A Survey of the Works of Philosopher and Theologian Constantine Cavarnos), John E. Rexine In this book, Dr. John E. Rexine, Charles A. Dana Professor of the Classics and Chairman of the Classics Department of Colgate University, focuses on 33 books by Dr. Cavarnos published between 1949 and 1985, discussing them in as many chapters in a clear, concise, and engaging manner. In addition, he gives valuable information about Cavarnos' life and concerns as an educator and writer. Illustrated. 184pp $15.00 Cloth $8.00 Paper- 1985 (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies) 4-2001

CONSTANTINE CAVARNOS' WORKS SURVEYED VOLUME 2 , John E. Rexine In this volume, Professor Rexine reviews 20 books of Cavarnos published after the year 1985. Like his earlier works, these are of a philosophical and religious nature, addressed both to the scholar and the general reader interested in Greek culture of all periods and in Orthodox Christian life and thought. Illustrated. 136pp $15.00 Cloth $8.00 Paper - 1997 (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies) 4-2001

CONSTANTINE XI DRAGAS PALAEOLOGUS: A Biography of the Last Greek Emperor, Marios Philippides This is the first full biography of the last emperor of Byzantium, who died defending Constantinople against the Ottoman Turks. Dr. Philippides has researched sources in many languages to reconstruct his life and his policies and to provide a detailed description of his reign in the years preceding the fall. He establishes that, having ascended the throne of Byzantium, Constantine XI made a concerted effort to restore Greek power in the region through an active diplomacy that sought to ally Constantinople with Serbian and other Christian leaders in order to stem the oncoming Ottoman tide. In the process of researching and reconstructing Constantine's life, the author has produced an important work of scholarship and created a compelling portrait of the last Greek emperor and the circumstances leading to the collapse of the 1000 year old empire. 700pp $85.00 Cloth (Aristide d Caratzas Publishers) 4-2001

CONVERSATIONS WITH NIETZSCHE: A Life in the Words of Contemporaries (Oxford World's Classics), edited with an Introduction by Sander L. Gilman (Cornell University); translated by David J. Parent (Illinois State University) Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Rée, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important for his conversations than for his letters. In Conversations with Nietzsche, Sander Gilman and David Parent present a fascinating selection of eighty-seven memoirs, anecdotes, and informal recollections by friends and acquaintances of Nietzsche. Translated from the definitive German collection, Begegnungen mit Nietzsche, these biographical pieces--some of which have never before appeared in English--cover the entire span of Nietzsche's life: his boyhood friendships, his arrival at the University of Bonn, his appointment to professor at Basel at age twenty-four, the impact of The Birth of Tragedy, his friendship with Wagner, his life in Italy, his confinement at the Jena Sanatorium, and his death. They present the philosopher in dialogue with friends and acquaintances, and provide new insights into him as a thinker and as a commentator on his times, recounting his views on some of the greats of history, including Burckhardt, Goethe, Kant, Dostoevsky, Napoleon, and numerous others. In his selections, Gilman has carefully balanced documents concerning Nietzsche's personal life with others on his intellectual development, resulting in an entertaining and informative book that will appeal to a wide audience of educated readers. 304pp $26.00 Hardcover (Praxis Institute) NOT AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. Named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1988-1989 3-2001

DAYS OF A RUSSIAN NOBLEWOMAN: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821, by Anna Labzina; edited and translated by Gary Marker and Rachel Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, Days of a Russian Noblewoman provides a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By the standards of the day, Anna Labzina was relatively well educated, and she traveled widely through the Russian empire. Yet unlike most writers of her time, she writes primarily as a dutiful, if inwardly rebellious, daughter and wife, reflecting the onerous roles assigned to women in a male-centered society. Labzina was married young to Alexander Karamyshev, who, while regarded in political and scholarly circles of his day, proved to be brutish and abusive at home. A child molester and a gadabout, he caused Labzina much grief, which she vividly recalls in her memoir. Because she moved among aristocratic circles, her reminiscences also bring readers face to face with celebrated figures of politics and literature, including the Empress Catherine the Great and the "Radiant Prince" Grigorii Potemkin. Labzina wrote both her memoir and her diary during her second marriage, to Alexander Labzin, a leader in Russian Freemasonry and in the movement for religious revival. During this time, she became actively involved in the spiritual life of his lodge, the Dying Sphinx. Her accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offer unparalleled glimpses into male and female sensibilities of the time. 208pp $40.00 Cloth / $18.00 Paper - 2001 (Northern Illinois University) 7-2001

DOSTOEVSKY, VOLUME 1: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849, Joseph Frank "Clearly a work in the masterpiece class.... This is not only a great book about the early life of a great writer but probably the best book an American Writer has yet given us on the literatary culture of 19th century Russia." - The New York Times Book Review 424pp $21.00 Paper - 1976/1979 (Princeton) 4-2001

DOSTOEVSKY, VOLUME 2: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Joseph Frank "The first and last thing to say about Joseph Frank's ongining enterprise... is that it is unrivalled in both its ambition and achievement. This is simply the most reliable, detailed, balanced and up-to-date account we have of the most influential novelist of the last 150 years. It is also the most fascinating... The present volume tells the story of transformation. There is hardly a more dramatic one to be found anywhere. It opens with the detention of the bookish 28 year old writer for membership in the radical Petrashevsky circle and closes with his return to the capital 10 years later (in 1859), an ex-convict and ex-soldier who now proclaimed himself a rapturous supporter of the czar. Russian imperial dynasty, and the Russian Christ." - Donald Fanger, The Boston Globe 344pp $20.00 Paper (Princeton) 4-2001

DOSTOEVSKY, VOLUME 3: The Stir of Liberation, 1868-1865, Joseph Frank "Joseph Frank's magnificant third volume... unravels an immensely important and complex period in Dostoevsky's life and , along the way, evokes and explicates the Russia of the mid-19th century.... Frank's effort as a biographer of Dostoevsky has been a unique and successful experiment in the biographical form. - Robin Feuer Miller, Philadelphia Inquirer 412pp $20.00 Paper (Princeton) 4-2001

DOSTOEVSKY, VOLUME 4: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871, Joseph Frank This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time the Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels - "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," and "The Devils" - and two of his best novellas, "The Gambler" and "The Eternal Husband." "Dostoevsky is the genius who has done the most to illumine 19th century Russian psychology and to make the terrifying problems of atheism and nihilism part of the modernism we still grapple with......" - Lesley Chamberlain, The [London] Times 15 halftones. 539pp $20.00 Paper (Princeton) 4-2001

DOSTOEVSKY, VOLUME 5: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881, Joseph Frank This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's celebrated biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky's final years at last won him the universal approval toward which he had always aspired. While describing his idiosyncratic relationship to the Russian state, Frank also details Dostoevsky's continuing rivalries with Turgenev and Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's appearance at the Pushkin Festival in June 1880, which preceded his death by one year; marked the apotheosis of his career - and of his life as a spokesman for the Russian spirit. There he delivered his famous speech on Pushkin before an enormous, emotional crowd: "Our destiny is universality attained not by the sword, but by the force of brotherhood and of our brotherly striving toward the reunification of mankind." This is the Dostoevsky who has entered the patrimony of world literature, though he was not always capable of living up to such exalted ideals. The writer's death in St. Petersburg in January of 1881 concludes this unparalleled literary biography - one truly worthy of Dostoevsky's genius and of the remarkable time and place in which he lived. 15 halftones. 812pp $50.00 Cloth / $20.00 - 2002/2003 (Princeton) 3-2005

ELDER CLEOPA OF SIHASTRIA: In the Tradition of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, Archimandrite Ionichie Balan; translated with additions to the text by Mother Cassiana; introduction by Fr. Roman Braga Monk, abbot, desert dweller, confessor, spiritual father... Fr. Cleopa was all of these and more. This great elder of our own times lived in seclusion in the forested mountains of northern Romania for over eight years, hiding from the communist authorities who sought to imprison or kill him. Like a modern day Saint Anthony, Fr. Cleopa experienced tremendous temptations from the devil during those years as he deepened himself in inner prayer. Upon returning to his monastery in Sihastria, he was besieged daily by thousands of faithful who sought his counsels. Archimandrite Cleopa Illie (1912-1998) has captured the attention of the Orthodox living in the west. With the blessing of Archimandrite Ioanichie Balan, Holy Protection Monastery has translated and widely expanded the text of the Romanian biography of this great elder. This publication includes many of Eldedr Cleopa's counsels on a variety of subjects. The elder's own lively manner of speaking has been conveyed, together with a glimpse into the surroundings, people and times that shaped his life. 40 photographs. 400pp $20.00 Paper - 2001(New Varatec) 7-2001

ELDER GERVASIOS PARASKEVOPOULOS OF PATRAS: His Life and His Pastoral Work, Hierodeacon Cyril Kostopoulos The life and pastoral work of a contemporary saintly priest. 117pp $5.00 Paper (Orthodox Kypseli Publications) 4-2001

THE EMPRESS THEODORA: Partner of Justinian, James Allan Evans Even by modern standards, the Empress Theodora (?-548) had a remarkable rise to power. Born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, she worked as an actress in burlesque theater. Yet she attracted the love of the future emperor Justinian, who, to the astonishment of proper society, made her not only his wife but also his partner in government. Justinian’s respect for and truest in Theodora gave her power in her own right unmatched by almost any other Roman or Byzantine empress. In this book, James Allan Evans provides a scholarly, yet highly accessible account of the life and times of the Empress Theodora. He follows her from her childhood as a Hippodrome bearkeeper’s daughter to her imperial roles as Justinian’s most trusted counselor and as an effective and powerful advocate for the downtrodden. In particular, he focuses on the ways in which Theodora worked to improve the lives of women. He also explores the pivotal role Theodora played in the great religious controversy of her time, involving a breach between sects in the Christian Church. 9 black and white photographs. 176pp $30.00 Hardcover / $20.00 Paper - 2002 (University of Texas) 3-2005

FACING EAST: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy, Frederica Mathewes-Green Like many American Christines, Frederica Mathewes-Green and her family searched for a more authentic faith and a closer connection to God. To their surprise, they discovered their true spiritual home in the enigmatic, Eastern Orthodox tradtion. "Facing East," Mathewes-Green's compelling and fluent tale of an unexpected pilgrimage to an ancient faith, unveils both the face of a church long shrouded in mystery and the strength and spirit of a tradition that is now attracting a phenomenal number of Christian seekers. Guiding readers through the icons, incense, and unfamiliar sacraments, rituals, and rites of the Eastern Church, Mathewes-Green's luminous story describes a faith strongly rooted in the teachings of the early fathers and a tradition that has maintained its integrity and ritual beauty throughout the ages. In her intimate accounts of her family's and fellow parishinoers' discoveries, disappointments, and joys in their newfound church, Mathewes-Green reveals the human heart of Eastern Orthodoxy and the enduring, compelling vitality of its millennia-old faith. 224pp $22.00 Hardcover - 1997 (HarperSan Francisco) 3-2005

FAITH OF OUR SONS: A Father’s Wartime Diary, Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer In 1999, Frank and Genie Schaeffer’s eighteen year old son enlisted in the United States Marine Corps... and then told his parents. John and Frank Schaeffers’ ensuing experiences of leaning how to be a U.S. Marine (and a Marine’s parnet), and of reevaluating their understandings of the words service and duty, were recounted in Keeping Faith: A Ather-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps. Their very personal story struck such a fervent chord amongst many Americans and it inspired personal communications from three American Presidents and propelled the author onto Oprah, 20/20 and Nightline, and their book onto the New York Times extended bestseller’s list. Then on February 18, 2003 - the day the Gulf War II began - John Schaeffer was deployed to the Middle East. Faith of Our Sons is Frank Schaeffer’s moving and timely account of what it’s like to send your child to war, and the powerful emotions and spiritual struggles attendant on that experience (from panic to pride to rage and back again). But as we read the home front story of Frank and Genie Schaefer, punctuated by the occasional treasured call or e-mailed poem from their son, we are also hearing the voices of many others in the same situation. 279pp $25.00 Hardcover - 2004 (Carroll & Graf) 3-2005

FATHER ARSENY, 1893-1973: Prisoner, Priest, Spiritual Father, translated by Vera Bouteneff "Jesus said that he who believes in Him will do the works that He does, and evern greater works, because He goes to the Father (Jn 14:12). Fr. Arseny proves Christ's words. In the demonic desolation of a Soviet labor camp the imprisoned priest conquers nature, casts out demons, remits sins, reconciles sinners, heals the sick, feeds the hungrey, protects the poor, comforts the afflicted, and proclaims release to the captives and liberty to the oppressed. Freed by faith from every human ideology, whether atheistic or religious, Fr. Arseny works the greatest of miracles by God's grace and the prayers of God's Mother: He loves every human being with the love of God Himself." - fromjk the Foreword 288pp $15.00 Paper- 2001 (SVS Press) 4-2001

FATHER ARSENY: A Cloud of Witnesses, Translated by Vera Bouteneff The stories of Father Arseny and his work and life in the Soviet prison camps have captured the minds of readers all over the world. Here, in this second volume, readers will find new narratives about Father Arseny freshly translated from the most recent Russian edition. Through the memories of Father Arseny’s spiritual children, his “cloud of witnesses,” readers once again see the light and compassion of Christ shine through this man of God. 160pp $16.00 Paper (SVS Press) 3-2005

FATHER SERAPHIM ROSE: His Life and Works (Completely Revised Edition of Not of This World: The Life and Teachings of Father Seraphim Rose) Living as a monk in the mountians of northern California, Fr. Seraphim Rose broke the shackles of his times and penetrated into the heart of ancient, otherworldly Christian experience, reconnecting fragmented Western man with his lost roots and showing him the way of return to God. Today his name is known and loved by millions throughout the world, especially in Russia and Eastern Europe, where during the Communist era his writings were secretly distributed in thousands of typewritten copies. This book traces his passionate search for Truth and his spiritual and philosophical development, setting forth his message and offering a glimpse into the soul of a man not of this world. 170 photographs. 1142pp $30.00 Papre - 2003 (St Herman Press) 3-2005

FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY, Alba Amoia A biographical critical assessment of the life and works of the great Russian novelist, political outcast, compulsive gambler and epileptic. 216pp $20.00 Hardcover (Continuum International) 4-2001

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SEA (2nd Printing), George Poulos An informative and fascinating biography of the co-founder and first Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Bishop Athanagoras Cavadas. $9.95 Paper (Holy Cross) 4-2001

FRAGMENTS OF MY LIFE, Catherine de Hueck Doherty Catherine tells in her own words how she was born to wealth in pre-revolutionary Russia, raised among Arab children and pashas in Egypt, French students in Paris, and Russian peasants and aristocrates on her family estate. She shares how she dodged bullets as a nurse duing World War I, barely survived the Russian Revolution, encountered poverty as a refugee and returned from her rags to riches in North America. Then finally, how she gave everything away to serve the poor. She tells of her adventures as a magazine correspondent in pre-World War II Europe, as a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, and as an internationally renowned speaker and writer who dodged rotten eggs and tomatoes, calling for racial and economic justice, ecumenism, and an active role for lay people in the Church. Then she goes on to tell how she fell in love with and married Eddie Doherty, Irish-American newspaperman, and how they together founded Madonna House Lay Apostolate, and became leaders in the development of new forms of Christian community and service in the world. A journey into Catherine's life, disclosing the mysteries of world events that shaped her life; the mysteries of her leadership; the mysteries of her marriage; and, most of all, the mysteries of God's love. 206pp $13.00 Paper (Madonna House) 4-2001

FRANCIS: A Saints Way, James Cowan Internationally acclaimed author James Cowan takes us on a jjourney to beautiful Umbria in northern Italy where the landscape that inspired Saint Francis still exists today. Readers will discover the chapels and caves, the monasteries and grottos, where Frances forged his unique spiritual path. Here, of course, is a portrait of the man who chose the dusty road over book learning, who communicated effortlessly with animals, who crafted universally appealing prayers now recited the world over, who became the first to bear the wounds of Christ, and whose example showed us the way to a life of meditation and self-denial. This volume, though, is not merely a history of Saint Francis' life, but an attempt to enter into the spirit of the man and unlock his larger significance. James Cowan explores new interpretations of Francis' uncompromising asceticism, the internal conflict of a man who chose the active life over the purely contemplative, a man whose restless spirituality took him to the court of Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the time of a fiercely fought battle of the Crusades, a man whose relationship with his spiritual sister Clare may be seen as influenced by fin d'amour and Francis' youthful attachment to the songs of French troubadours, and a man who requested, in his final days, that his Roman patroness Giocoma di Settisole send him almond and honey cookies and "cloth the color of ashes to cover my body." Francis: A Saint's Way places the reader in the geographical, cultural, and historical context of the great man of Assisi and also renders him anew for the modern world. 192pp $20.00 Hardcover- 2001 (Triumph) 4-2001

FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE: Memoirs of An American Immigrant in the Soviet Union, Mary Halasz; Written Together with Piroska E. Kiss and Katalin E. Kiss; With an Introduction by Istvan Deak This book is truly unique! There are numerous accounts of how immigrants arrived on America’s shores and adjusted to life in the New World. But there are very few, if any, examples of the reverse process, that is, of a young American who moves to east central Europe and eventually becomes stuck for the rest of her life in the Soviet Union. From American With Love is a heartrending tale about various stages in the life of a remarkable woman: As a young girl born and raised in Roebling, New Jersey, of Hungarian immigrant parents; As a 17 year old American teenager, who in 1938 goes to the native city of her parents, Uzhhorod, in what was then Czechoslovakia, in order to get married; A a young married women who witnesses the collapse of Czechoslovakia, the annexation of Uzhhorod and Subcarpathian Rus’ by Hungary, and the World War II years of deportation and suffering by local Jews; As a mature women who is subjected to the Soviet annexation of her new homeland in 1945 and who witnesses first hand Stalinist rule, with its suppression of the Rusyn nationality, deportation of thousands of Hungarians, and persecution of the Greek Catholic Church; As the wife of a “political” prisoner imprisoned for 10 years in the Soviet gulag; As a mother and grandmother, who, remaining an American citizen, is forced to endure over four decades of Soviet Communism as well as the continuing hardships of life in an independent Ukraine. Included is an introduction by the Columbia University historian Istvan Deak, who places this tale in a larger historical context. 200pp $30.00 Cloth - 2000 (East European Monographs, No. 564) 7-2001

GEORGES FLOROVSKY, RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL AND ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN, edited by Andrew Blane This book is devoted to the life and thought of Georges Florovsky, a major figure in that remarkable generation of Russians who after the Russian revolution in emigration in Europe preserved and extended the lively cultural heritage of their native land. An an Orthodox Churchman, he was a pioneer leader in the modern ecumenical movement and today is recognized as the most profound Orthodox theologian of this century. This book includes a definitive bibliography of Florovsky's writings and descriptions of the deposits of Florovsky's papers in the library collections of Princeton University and St. Vladimir's Seminary. 16 pages of photographs, index. 444pp $30.00 Hardcover $20.00 Paper (SVS Press) 4-2001

THE HERMITESS PHOTINI, Archimandrite Joachim Spetsieris This is the incredible true story of Photini, a young woman who lived in disguise as a man a hundred years ago. Aflame with love for God, she abandoned the world to live as a hermit. She journeyed beyond the Jordan River and found a cave where she lived in complete seclusion, unknown to the world. With great ingenuity, she managed to survive in the wilderness alone. By faith in God and by wielding the sword of the Jesus Prayer, she vanquished the demons. And through noetic prayer she rose to spiritual heights, where she saw visions of heaven and even acquired the gift of clairvoyance. But her secret life was providentially discovered by Father Joachim in his quest to find holy hermits. In this inspiring book of his, he describes his encounter with the hermitess and tells her life's adventures. This unique book has great spiritual worth since it is not merely a captivating story, but it also includes Photini's deep insights about life and the struggle for spiritual perfection. 136pp $10.00 Paper - 1998 (St Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery) 4-2001

HOLY WOMEN OF RUSSIA: The Lives of Five Orthodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today, Brenda Meehan Against the rich backdrop of 19th century Russia - the lives and spiritual journeys of five holy women offer inspiring, empowering models for individual and collective spirituality. From the widow Tuchkova, hermit Anastasiia, and peasant Matrona Naumova, to the aristocratic Aleksandra Shmakova and the Abbess Taisiia, each of these diverse women craved and created environments that combined monastic solitude with a community of like-minded women. "Rich and poor, middle-aged and young...out of the pain at the loss of a cherished husband and child, or the boredoom of aristocratic social life, or the shattering power of a mystic vision, or the simple but incorrigible habit of giving shelter for the night to the homeless," each woman answered the call to God. Meehan shows the sources and qualities of their holiness, how each woman represented a particular aspect of Orthodox spirituality, and how aspects of women's religious ideals, including community, service, and reconciliation, marked the religious communities they founded. 182pp $11.00 Paper (SVS Press) 4-2001

THE HOUSE ON PALMER STREET, Helen C. Dracos The youngest daughter of a Greek family tells her story of growing up Greek and American in Boston. The family arrived in the United States shortly before World War I. Her father, Rev. Constantine Douropoulos, was ordained by St. Nectarios and was one of the pioneering priests in America. Filled with insights into local history, as well as life in Arcadia, Greece, this is a lively and moving memoir of one family's life in America. 358pp $15.00 Hardcover (Holy Cross) 3-2005

INNOCENT XI: Pope of Christian Unity, Raymond J. Maras The man was a saint; the age was dreadful. The meeting of this saintly man and his time made him immortal. His inner life made him a saint. but he was not only a saint; he had a mission. During his life he had to see that the Christians, instead of battling against the common enemy, fought each other in the Thirty Years War that had reduced the mighty Holy Roman Empire of the Germans to a powerless symbol. The Western world was then only a white man's world and the whites were Christians, but divided into Catholics and Protestants and Orthodox, as well as into nations. While the Frence and the Swedish fought the Germans, the Germans each other, and the French the Spanish, the Italians and the Netherlanders, the Polish and the Russians, and the Hungarians the Austrians, the Ottoman Turks occupied country after country. The Byzantine Empire (Greece and actual Turkey) that included Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, the Wallack countries (actual Roumania), a large part of Hungary, and what is today southern Russia all fell into the hands of the infidel who installed a "new order." The Christians lost their rights, fortunes, and even their religion; also, their marriage laws were waived or rendered without significance; their estates, woods, and houses were burned down, animals seized, children taken in tax as slaves, and young women confined to harems. Church bells became silenced, and the churches were turned into mosques. According to the report to the Holy See, the population of the ocupied countries diminished to one-tenth of the original number in the first fifty years of the conquest. The mission of Pope Innocent XI of the Odescalchi family included the liberation of the Christians from the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. This book focuses on Western Christendom's confrontation with the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. It is primarily a historical study. "In this substantial contribution to our knowledge of early modern Europe, Pope Innocent XI now stands out as one of the pivotal figures of the 17th century as a result of Professor Maras' meticulously researched and clearly expressed biography." - Professor William Miller (Saint Louis University) 356pp $24.00 Hardcover - 1984 (Cross Roads Books) 4-2001

JAMES THE BROTHER OF JESUS, Robert Eisenman Drawing on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other long-overlooked early church texts, the author presents a portrait of James as the leader of all opposition groups in the Jerusalem of his day and spiritual heir to his brother, Jesus. The work further argues that Paul's Hellenized movement was deeply compromised by Roman contacts and that James was the popular Jewish leader of his day whose death triggered the uprising against Rome. . Illustrated. 1112pp $20.00 Paper - 1998 (Penguin) 4-2001

JOHN MASON NEALE AND THE QUEST FOR SOBORNOST, Leon Litvack (The Queen's University, Belfast) John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous Victorian divine, hymnologist, novelist, historian, was noted for his interest in the Orthodox Church, as expressed through his historical writings, translations of Greek hymns, and novels set in the Christian East. The work is based on a wide variety of manuscripts and published sources for the subject, and demonstrates how this leading light in the Anglo-Catholic revival acted as an exemplary interpreter of Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy to the Victorian England of his day. Neale's life and work provide a shining example of how two very different cultures and traditions can approach each other, with fruitful results for both. 320pp $55.00 Cloth- 1994 (Oxford) 4-2001

JOSEPHUS: The Historian and His Society (Second Edition), Tessa Rajak Josephus, author of the Jewish War and the Jewish Antiquities, belongs equally to Jewish and Greco-Roman history. A well-to-do priest and Pharisee at Jerusalem, he was a chronicler of the great changes which took place in the great Jewish revolt of 66-73 against Rome. Tessa Rajak assesses the varied sorce material to produce a sociological account of the Jewish revolt that casts fresh light on Josephus' attitudes, placing his achievement in the context of both Jewish values and the Greek historical tradition. This second edition includes a substantial new Introduction and Bibliography. 272pp $22.00 Paper - 2002 (Duckworth) 3-2005

JOSYP TERELYA: Witness to Apparitions and Persecutions in the U.S.S.R. - Autobiography of Josyp Terelya, Josyp Terelya; Co-authored by Michael H. Brown Josyp Terelya was born in the Ukraine (Soviet Union) in 1943, the son of high-ranking Communist officials. By age 14, Josyp was defending his faith against Communist suppression & became a leader in the Ukrainian underground Catholic Church. At age 18, he began the first of 23 years in Communist prisons. His account of beatings & abuses are dramatic. This is the story of a mystic, a visionary, a suffering servant, a victim of Godless Communism. It is the account of a man who spent much of his life behind bars because of his faith and evangelism. Josyp fought for the cause of Christianity all his life & in the most hostile of circumstances. He became known worldwide. His release from the Communist gulag came from the pleas of President Reagan, President Mitterrand, Pope John Paul II, the International Red Cross and Amnesty International. He told of his experiences to a Congressional Committee in Washington, D.C., October 22, 1987. His life story has become legendary and has been written up in the Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune. Columnist Jack Anderson called him "another Alexander Solzhenitsyn crying out from deep within the Soviet prison system." Many startling photos. 344pp $12.00 Paper - 1991 (Queenship) 3-2005

THE JOURNALS OF ALEXANDER SCHMENANN, 1973-1983, Translated and edited by Juliana Schmemann A number of years have passed since Fr. Alexander Schmemann's untimely death on December 13, 1983, at the age of sixty-three. Many knew Fr. Schmemann through his many-faceted and eloquent gifts as a preacher, professor and priest. His insight into contemporary culture, church life and liturgical celebration has left an indelible mark on many generations of Christians on a global scale. He has bequeathed a rich legacy of published work and a wealth of personal imprressions. These journals offer insight into the quiet, intimate side of his life. They witness to the magnitude of his heart, his absolute humanity. Translated and edited by his wife, Julianna Schmamann, the abridged journals reveal his recollections and experiences, and record much of his formative creative thought on all manner of subjects between the period of January 1973 and June of 1983. In the words of Fr. Schmemann, the "meaning of this journal is not so much a desire to record events, but a kind of visit into myself." They record, sometimes with brutal honesty, his impatience and frustrations with himself and events, but above all, his liberation and freedom "in Christ and His Church." We see a life replete with the effort to call people to live "higher and more openly," to become restored "human beings." One is struck by his singular effort to share the glory and joy that is manisfested in the eschatological experience of the risen Lord through the mystery of the Ecucharist. His love of God, deep faith, and reverent love of family and wife serves as an endless wellspring that shapes his very person. We are enlivened, renewed, and blessed with these tiely journals of Fr. Alexander. 432pp $20.00 Paper- 2000/2002 (SVS Press) 4-2001

KING DAVID: A Biography, Steven L. McKenzie Concluding that King David was indeed a real person, this work presents a close and critical reading of the biblical texts, ancient historical and archaeological discoveries, and other evidence to trace his rise to power and portray him as a monarch, aggressive leader, devious politician and military tactician. 272pp $28.00 Paper- 2000 (Oxford) 3-2001

LETTERS FROM FATHER SERAPHIM: The Twelve-year Correspondence Between hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) and Father Alexy Young Father Seraphim Rose Hieromonk Seraphim Rose is well known to many as anj Orthodox Christian writer. He edited The Orthodox Word and authored numerous articles and several books - including the best-selling Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future and The Soul After Death - before his tragically early death, in 1982, at the age of 48. More personal and spontaneous than his formal writings, these letters reveal the development of many ideas that came to form the core of his teachings. There is the call for ‘less head, more heart,’ and this increasing emphasis on the ‘royal path,’ the need to steer between the dangers of modernism and ecumenism to the left and the more subtle dangers of phariseeism - what Fr. Seraphim call ‘the correctness disease’ - to the right. The letters are instructive, engaging, and strikingly relevant. This correspondence is particularly valuable in revealing for the first time Fr. Seraphim as a spiritual father: unpretentious, never overbearing, guiding, never dictating, always bringing into focus the very essence of Christianity. Here is Fr. Seraphim in the mission fields, and in the daily struggle of monastic life in the northern California wilderness. From these letters there emerges a truthful portrait of Fr. Seraphim in his spiritual maturity, compelling by virtue of who he was as much as by what he wrote. His own unstinting devotion to Christ, after a restless search for truth in his youth, gives weight to his counsel, bluntly expressed in his conviction that today ‘one cannot be a half-hearted Christian, but only entirely or not at all.’ 321pp $20.00 Paper - 2001 (Nikodemos Orthodox Publication Society) 3-2005

THE LIBERATION OF TOLSTOY: A Tale of Two Writers - One Russian Writer's Struggle with Greatness Viewed Through the Prism of Another's (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory), Ivan Bunin; edited, translated from the Russian, with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Vladimir T. Khmekov Written in the 1930;, more than two decades after Leo Tolstoy's death in 1910, this unusual work - equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study - examines the dialogue of two great writers on the proklyatye voprosy, or "damned questions," of life. Though Tolstoy was Ivan Bunin's senior by more than forty years (Tolstoy was born in 1828, Bunin in 1870), they led remarkably similar lives. Both were gentry noblemen who achieved international acclaim as writers; both struggled to balance worldly pleasures with spiritual enlightenment. The dialogue between the two men is an intriguin tapestry weaving passages from Tolstoy's personal, political, and literary writings with those from the memoirs of his wife, family, and friends; references to Western and Eastern philosophers, religious thinkers, and critics; and Bunin's own recollections and analysis of Tolstoy. Bunin conveys the drama of Tolstoy's last days; the politics and events surrounding his funeral; his difficulties with the Russian Orthodox Church and his embrace of Buddhism; his relationship with his eccentric family; and his early love and later hatred of his wife, Sofya. At the same time, this work reflects the drama of Bunin's own difficult circumstances in life and his search for spiritual deliverance. The Liberation of Tolstoy is a multifaceted view of the waning years of two giants of Russian literature and a glimpse of the philosophical and aesthetic legacies of two great minds. 320pp $35.00 Cloth (Northwestern University- 2001) 4-2001

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT: The First Christian Emperor, D.G. Kousoulas A highly detailed and intimate biography of Constantine from his obscure birth to the complex and decisive events of his reign. Includes a complete history of Constantine's long rise to power, his military triumphs, the consolidation of his power, the revolutionary changes regarding Christianity, the events of the Arian heresy, the creation of Constantinople, and the years of consolidation of the Roman Empire and the place of the Christians. Illustrated, with a special illustrated section on coins from the Constantine period. 511pp $25.00 Paper (Routledge - 1997) 4-2001

LIFE IN AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MILITARY PRISON: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan’s Story, Dr. Albert Skarvan; Translated from the Slovak and Edited by Peter Brock Translated for the first time into English, this is the memoir of Dr. Albert Skarvan, a Slovak by birth and national consciousness and a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, who derived his pacifist ideas from Tolstoy’s works. Albert Skarvan’s Memoirs of an Army Doctor reveal the mindset around a century ago of a Tolstoyan antimilitarist, who is regarded today as a figure of some importance in Slovak literature. They also give a unique picture of condition prevailing in military prisons of the Hapsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1895 Skarvan had refused on grounds of conscience to complete his term of conscript service in the Austro-Hungarian army and, as a result, he was tried and sentenced to imprisonment in a military jail. His account of his incarceration has been translated from the Slovak by Professor Peter Brock.. 62pp $9.00 Paper (University of Toronto - 2002) 3-2005

THE LIFE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND HER SISTER SAINT MARTHA: A Medieval Biography, translated, with commentary and introduction by David Mycoff (Cistercian Studies Number 108) The cult of the penitent Magdalene grew rapidly in western Europe in the Middle Ages, as a number of shrines and church dedication attest. This medieval narration traces, in imaginative detail, the lives of the two sisters after the Resurrection of Christ, providing a model for Christian women. 166pp $13.00 Paper (Cistercian- 1989) 3-2005

LITTLE MOTHER OF RUSSIA: A Biography of Empress Marie Feodorovna, Coryne Hall "The first biography in English... for 40 years, factual enough to edfucate... entertaining enough to grab your imagination." - The Herald Empress Marie (1847-1928) lived as dramatic life as any princess on the Russian throne. Born Dagmar of Denmark, she was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia, a love match on both sides, but he died months before the wedding. Out of duty she married his brother who in 1881 became Tsar Alexander III after the assassination of his father. She was the mother of Nicholas II, the last Tsar. She saw the destruction of all she held most dear. Her husband died in his prime; two of her sons died young. During the First World War, against her own advice, the Tsar took command of the army: helplessly she watched the country she loved suffer under the misrule of Empress Alexandra (her daughter-in-law) and Rasputin. Russia was engulfed in revolution. It led to the destruction of the dynasty and of the Church in Russia. Dagmar escaped from house arrest under the Bolsheviks and sailed to England in a British warship. Her word was law among the emigres, her influence upon the Romanovs paramount. She was truly Matoushka, Mother of the Russian P eople. She died in Denmark in 1928. 60 black and white photos, bibliography, and index. 416pp $45.00 Hardcover (Shepheard-Walwyn) Out of Print - Paper Edition Forthcoming 7-2001

LIVING ICONS: Persons of Faith in the Eastern Church, Michael Plekon; Foreword by Lawrence S. Cunningham Living Icons presents an intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this inspiring volume, Michael P. Plekon introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives. The “living icons” Plekon describes were, among other things, priests, theologians, writers, and caregivers to the homeless and poor. One was an artist who became the greatest icon painter in this century; another was assassinated for his teachings in post-Soviet Russia. These remarkable people of faith lived through times of great suffering: forced emigration, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Many of them were criticized, if not condemned, by ecclesiastical opponents and authorities. Yet each demonstrate a unique pattern for holiness, illustrating that the path to sainthood is open to all. With the fall of state socialism, Eastern Orthodox churches and monasteries are being reopened and receiving renewed interest from believers and nonbelievers alike. Plekon calls to our attention people like Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1832), a monk, mystic, counselor, healer, and visionary; Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), a Russian whose writings after Glasnost ultimately led to his tragic assassination; Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a painter, poet, and political activist who was killed in a concentration camp for hiding her Jewish neighbors; and Father Lev Gillet (1893-1980), one of the twentieth century’s greatest spiritual teachers. Living Icons, which includes a foreword by Lawrence S. Cunningham, brings to life the beautiful, and often unfamiliar, spirituality of the Eastern Orthodox Church through some of its most remarkable members. It shows with simplicity and clarity that Christ and the Gospel are often manifested in extraordinary ways in the lives of ordinary people. Illustrated. 20 halftones. 336pp $38.00 Cloth - 2002 / $18.00 Paper (University of Notre Dame - 2004) 3-2005

A MAN SENT BY GOD, D. Tsakonas Inspiring insight into the life of Patriarch Athenagoras. $4.00 Paper (Holy Cross) Out of Print 4-2001/3-2005

MANY WORLDS: A Russian Life, Sophie Koulomzin In her autobiography, Sophie Koulomzin, long honored as a pioneer in Orthodox religious education in America, tells of the many worlds in which she has lived and worked: Russia, Western Europe, America. A fascinating and personal glimpse in the effects of the Russian Revolution, the years of war in Europe, and the adjustment to contemporary life in America. 368pp $12.00 Paper (SVS Press) 4-2001

METROPOLITAN ANDREW SHEPTYSKY (1865-1944), Cyril Korolevksy; translated, revised and edited by Father Serge Keleher Recent changes in Eastern Europe have brought the Eastern Catholic Churches to the ecumenical agenda. Andrew (Sheptytsky), Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 through 1944, is a pivotal figure in the development of the Greek Catholics in the twentieth century. A member of the Austrian Senate and a descendant of an ancient Ukrainian noble family which had become Polish and Roman Catholic, Andrew returned to his ancestral Greek Catholic to become a monk, a priest, and eventualy the Metropolitan. An ecumenist before his time, Andrew was a friend of Lambert Beauduin, Lord Halifax, Cardinal Mercier, Lev Gillet, and a host of others who found him a spiritual father in the patristic tradition. Andrew revived Studite monasticism, first organized in Constantinople before the Iconoclast period and brought to Ukraine in the tenth century by the fathers of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev. Concerned for the spiritual and material welfare of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian emigrants, Andrew visited his people in North and Sourth America, despite the difficulties of travel and his own failing health (he could not walk for the last fifteen years of his life. To encourage the intellectual development of his flock, Andrew organized the Ukrainian National Museum, the Greek Catholic Theological Society, and the Greek Catholic Theological Academy, funding numerous scholarships to enable qualified students to gain higher degrees in the great European univesities. Andrew sponsored ecumenical congresses, brining Orthodox and Catholic scholars together at a time when such meetings were exceptional and suspect. Realizing the crucial role of art in the development of Christian culture, Andrew encouraged and patronized the revival of authentic Byzantine Ukrainian iconography. Throughout his episcopate Andrew was concerned with liturgical renewal, and with developing the liturgical practice of his Church in accordance with the authentic Kievan tradition. He himself published service books to encourage this development, and eventually his efforts resulted in the publication of the series of service books for this tradition promulgated by the Holy See. When Father Cyril wrote this biography, it appeared that the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine at the end of World War II had destroyed Metropolitan Andrew's accomplishments. But four decades later, we see that Andrew built on a solid foundation; his achievements have endured and his ideas are making their way. Andrew above all would rejoice and thank God at the progress of the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. Appendix I: Documents; Appendix II: Uniatism, by Cyril Korolevsky; 24 illustrations and maps; Index. 617pp $30.00 Paper (Eastern Christian Publications - 1927 / 1993) 4-2001

THE MONK OF MOUNT ATHOS: Staretz Silouan 1866-1938, Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) The life and teachings of one of the greatest monks on Mt. Athos - Staretz Silouan - as told by a disciple. Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education consisted of two winters at the village school. But on Mt. Athos he was taught of God and attained a wisdom akin to the that of the Desert Fathers. Orthodox spirituality at its best. 124pp $10.00 Paper (SVS Press) 4-2001

MOTHER MARIA: Her Life in Letters, edited by Sister Thekla Here are Mother Maria's spiritual letters edited by a sister in her community. Written in Mother Maria's unique style, they provide a highly personal entry into the great Christian tradition of Orthodoxy. 144pp $24.00 Hardcover (Peregrina) 4-2001

MUSORGSKY: His Life and Works (Master Musicians Series), David Brown Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of 19th century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, through essentially an ameteur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the whole 19th century. He was also one of the most original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. As Brown illuminates Musorgsky’s work, he also paints a detailed portrait of the composer’s life. He describes how, unlike the systematic and disciplined Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky was a fitful ocmposer. When the inspirration was upon him, he could apply himself with superhuman intensity, as he did when composing the initial version of Boris Godunov. Sadly, Musorgsky deteriorated in his final years. Unemployed and all but destitute, he died at age forty-two. Written by one of the leading authorities on 19th century Russian composers, Musorgsky is the finest available biography of this giant of Russian music. 78 musical examples, 3 line illustrations and 18 halftones. 336pp $35.00 Paper (Oxford - 2002) 3-2005

NOT EVEN MY NAME: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America, A Young Girl's True Story of Genocide and Survival, Thea Halo Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family - as told to her daughter, Thea - and the poignant mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek form a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains. Although Turkey actively suppresses the truth about the slaughter of almost 3 million of its Christian minorities - Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian - during and after World War I, and the exile of millions of others, here is a rare, first-hand account of the horrors of that genocide. But Sano's story is also one of triumph. A brilliant and mesmerizing memoir written in haunting and eloquent prose, Not Even My Name weaves a seamless texture of individual memory that evokes all the suspense and drama of the best told tales. 321pp $25.00 Hardcover (Picador USA - 2000) 4-2001

ONE OF THE ANCIENTS: The Struggles of a Russian Man of Prayer - Elder Gabriel of Pskov and Kazan (The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit Series), Saint Simeon Kholmogorov The life and struggles of a Russian man of prayer., Elder Gabriel (+1915). Offers glimpses into the mystical life, telling of the Elder's unceasing and burning prayer and showing how the spiritual life can be experienced right now in whatever circumstances one is placed. Through the holy life of Elder Gabriel, One of the Ancients portrays an undivided awareness of God, the vision of otherworldliness, perception of the future and even a partial penetration into the mysteries of death - to the life beyond. 46 illustrations. 192pp $10.00 Paper (St Herman of Alaska - 1988) 4-2001

OUR GERONDA: Amphilochios Makris, 1889-1970, the Nuns of Panaghia Eleousa $12.00 Paper (Birth of the Theotokos Monastery) 4-2001

P.A. STOLYPIN: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia, Abraham Ascher This is the first comprehensive biography in any language of Russia's leading statesman in the period following the Revolution of 1905. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 (when he was assassinated), P.A. Stolypin aroused deep passions among his contemporaries as well as subsequent historians. In the twilight of Nicholas II's reign he was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform the socioeconomic and political system of the empire. His efforts in that direction - in agriculture, local administration, religious freedom, social legislation, the legal system - were radically new departures for the Russian state. His detractors disdained him as a power-hungry, coldhearted politician who was unscrupulous in pursuing his own career and would use any means to restore the tsarist autocracy following the frightening turbulence of 1905. Stolypin's admirers, however, argued that he was a man of vision who pursued policies that would have transformed the country into a modern state with social and political institutions comparable to those of the West. By contrast, this book - on the basis of extensive Russian archival documentation only recently available to historians - seeks to provide a balanced portrait of Stolypin that encompasses the complex, even divergent, impulses that motivated him. 29 illustrations, 1 map. 482pp Now in Paperback! $25.00 (Stanford - 2001) 3-2005

PAPA-DIMITRI GAGASTATHIS: The Man of God (1902-1975), translation by Dimitrios N. Kagaris This book is about a holy man of our days, Fr. Dimitrios Gagastathis, a simple priest of the Orthodox Church, who lived in a village of Greece from 1902 to 1975. Fr. Dimitrios was a 'simple' and 'weak' man chosen by God to enlighten others in these difficult times. He had no education - he could not even make a proper sermon - but in his great simplicity and love for God, he became worthy of receiving abundantly God's grace and becoming a living sermon himself. This book contains mostly autobiographical notes taken from the correspondence of Fr. Dimitrios. In these notes, many extraordinary and wondrous things are recorded, which, moreover, are stated with such naturalness and directness, that will perhaps shock or scandalize some. Alfter all, living among the saints is, infortuanately, one of the things our society is not famililiar with, not to mention the confusion that false 'spiritual' men have introduced in it. But the reader has to bear in mind that the present account comes from a most simple and guileless priest, who knew nothing about polished writing, but how "having Christ living in him" (Gal 2:20) could not but reveal everything he experienced as just an "imperative" glorification to God." - from the Preface $7.00 Paper (Orthodox Kypseli Publications) 4-2001

PAUL: A Critical Life (Oxford Paperbacks), Jerome Murphy-O'Connor "Of the books I know that deal with Paul's life, this is by far the most detailed, the most carefully argued, and the most imaginative... This is an amazing book. It is characterized by erudition and precision." - The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 7 linecuts. 432pp $20.00 Paper (Oxford - 1996/1998) 4-2001/3-2005

PAUL MILIUKOV AND THE QUEST FOR A LIBERAL RUSSIA, 1880-1918, Melissa Kirschke Stockdale Paul N. Miliukov was one of the most formidable intellectual and political forces of Russia' late imperial period. A historian of international reputation, Miliukov eventually became the principal theoretician and leader of Russian liberalism. He helped found the country's first liberal political party, led the party's faction in the Duma, and edited an influential liberal daily. In 1917, Miliukov took the lead in organizing the first Provisional Government. Working tirelessly for a liberal order committed to social reform as well as political liberties and the rule of law, Miliukov also strove to reconcile the liberalism and nationalism, championing the rights of national minorities while trying to promote the cohesion of the increasingly fragile empire. Melissa Kirschke Stockdale's biography of Miliukov's life in Russia is the most comprehensive available in any language. Drawing on his enormous published oeuvre and the five thousand folders of his personal archives in Moscow, many never before available to Western scholars, she examines Miliukov's contributions to Russian historiography, liberal thought, and nationality relations, teases out the connections between his historical writing and his political practice, and assesses his career in a European as well as a Russian context. In so doing, she illuminates the dilemmas involved in constructing a workable liberalism in an illiberal climate, dilemmas with a startling contemporary relevance. This is the most comprehensive biography of Miliukov available in any language. 8 black and white illustrations. 376pp $45.00 Cloth (Cornell) 4-2001

PAULINUS OF NOLA: Life, Letters and Poems (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series, Volume, 27), Dennis E. Trout This study offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca. 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. Dennis Trout considers all the ancient materials and modern commentary on Paulinus, and also delves into the archaeological and historical sources to illuminate the various settings in which we see this late ancient man at work. This vivid historical biography traces Paulinus's intellectual and spiritual journey and as the same time explores many facets of the late ancient Roman world. In addition to filling out the details of Paulinus's life at Nola, Trout looks in depth at Paulinus before his ascetic conversion, providing a new assessment of this formative period to better understand Paulinus's subsequent importance within the influential ascetic and ecclesiastical circles of his age. Trout also highlights Paulinus's place in the swirl of rebellions and heresies of the time, in the pagan revival of the 390s, and especially in the development of a new genre of Christian poetry. And, he examines anew Paulinus's relationships with such figures as Jerome, Rufinus, and Augustine. 3 line illustrations, 1 map. 404pp $62.00 Paper (University of California - 1999) 4-2001

THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE: The Life of Maria Skobtsova (Revised edition), Sergei Hackel The life of a Russian emigre nun, Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), in Paris who found glory in the servie of others; the poor, the indigent, drinks, drug addicts, forsaken emigres, and persecuted Jews. Scorning the traditional path of monasticism she gave of herself to all, even to the end - death in a Nazi gas chmber, dying in place of another. A moving and captivating account. $10.00 Paper (SVS Press) 4-2001

PETER THE GREAT: A Biography, Lindsey Hughes Peter the Great (1672-1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life - both public and private - and his reign. Drawing on his letters and papers, as well as on other contemporary accounts, the book provides new insights into Peter’s complex character, giving information on his actions, deliberations, possessions, and significant fantasy world - his many disguises and pseudonyms, his interest in dwarfs, his clowning and vandalism. It also sheds fresh light on his relationships with individuals such as his second wife Catherine and his favorite, Alexander Menshikov. The book includes discussions of Peter’s image in painting and sculpture, and there are two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation up to the present. 16 illustrations. 304pp $30.00 Cloth / $18.00 Paper (Yale - 2004/2004) 3-2005

PILGRIM PRINCESS: A Life of Princess Zinaida Volkonsky, Maria Fairweather This biography brings to life, through it's subject's vibrant personality, a romantic period of enduring fascination. Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna Volkonsky was born in 1789 soon after the fall of the Bastille. A member of one of Russia's oldest families, she became a maid of honor to the Dowager Empress, Maria Feodorovna. At court she was soon noticed by Alexander I with whom, after their love affair, she maintained a deep and lifelong friendship. Married to Prince Nikita Volkonsky, one of the Tsar's aides-de-camp, she travelled across Europe as part of the Imperial suite during the German and French campaigns when she met Goethe. He exceptionally lovely voice and her musical and dramatic talents were widely praised during the peace celebrations in London and Paris and at the Congresses of Vienna and Verona. It was as the hostess of one of the most influential literary and musical salons in Moscow; as 'Queen of the Muses and of beauty' as she was dubbed by Alexander Pushkin, who was a frequent guest together with his friend, the Polish poet Mickiewica; as well as for her closeness to most of the Decembrist revolutionaries, that Zinaida is most remembered in her native Russia. Spirited and powerful though she was, Zinaida had inherited a strong tendency to depression. A lifelong search for spiritual answers eventually brought the Princess to the Roman Catholic Church and to a new life in Rome. Here she at first created another salon, entertaining among the many Russian and foreign artists, Stendahal, Rossini, Donizetti, Glinka andk Sir Walter Scott. Above all Nilolai Gogol became a close friend, working on part of his great novel Dead Souls in the garden of her villa. Although a friend of Popes and Cardinals, Zinaida's growing mysticism and a lifelong wish to help those in need eventually led her to abandon her former life. Taking vows of poverty as a Franciscan tertiary, she gave up the last decade of her life to helping the poor. At her death in Rome, in February 1862, her coffin was followed to its last resting place by crowds of beggars to whom she was known simply as 'la beata.' 316pp $26.00 Hardcover w/dustjacket (Carroll and Graf - 2000) 4-2001

PRAYER AND SERVICE: A Biography of the Servant of God Josaphat Hordshevska, Sister Dominica G. Slawuta, SSMI This biography, divided into elevan chapters, was written by Sister Dominica Slawuta, postulator for the Cause of Canonization. She presents a clear picture of the life and work of her co-foundress. She highlights the human and spiritual virtues of Sr. Josaphata, and gives the history of the foundation (Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate) and the initial development of the Congregation which the Servant of God helped to found in 1892 in the village of Zhuzhel (today Zhuzheliany) in Western Ukraine. The spirituality of Sr. Josaphata was simple and spontaneous, directed towards the essential - to God and His holy will. From the Gospel, which she tried to live fully, she obtained light and strength in all the circumstances of her life. Such a dispositionmade her determined, honest, strong and lovable.
Sister Josaphata united in herself a deeply prayerful life and an intense ministry to the suffering and the spiritually neglected - love of God and love of a needy neighbour. In this way she demonstrated a new way of serving in our Church. Her ability to respond to the call of the Church for continual spiritual renewal and adaptation makes Josaphata a woman for all times. - Ivan Martyniak, Archbishop-Metropolitan for Ukranian Catholics of Poland, from the Preface Illustrated. 171pp $20.00 Paper (Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate, Canada - 1996) Out of Print 4-2001/3-2005

A PRODIGAL SAINT: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (The life and times of a priest from Tsarist Russia venerated in his lifetime and later elevated to sainthood) (Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience), Nadieszda Kizenko "A powerful and multi-dimensional portrait of the controversial Father John of Kronstadt, presented against the backdrop of Late Imperial religious life. Reading this book is like stepping back into the world of a century ago, seeing the concerns, both material and spiritual, which occupied people's lives." Eve Levin, Ohio State University Rarely are we privileged to see the making of a saint, but it is just what this book gives us for John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), a major figure in the religious life of Late Imperial Russia. So popular was Father John during his years of ministry that Kronstadt became a pilgrimage site replete with peddlers selling souvenir photographs, postcards, and commemorative mughs. A Prodigal Saint follows Father JOhn's development from activist priest to venerated spiritual leader and, after his death, to his elevation to sainthood in 1990. Father John represented a fundamentally new type of religious behavior and a new standard of sanctity in Late Imperial Russia. He ministered to the poor of Kronstadt, creating shelters and employment programs and participating in the temperance movement. In the process he acquired a reputation for prayerful intercession that soon spread beyond Kronstadt. When he was asked to minsiter to the dying Alexander III in 1894, his fame became international as he attracted correspondents from the United States and Europe. Kizenko draws upon rich and virtually unknown documents from the Russian archives, including Father John's diaries, thousand of letters he received from his followers, and the police reports on the sect that formed around him. John's diaries are a truly unique source, for they document the making of a modern saint: his struggles with doubt, his ascetical practices, and his growing realization that others saw him as a saint. A Prodigal Son is published in collaboration with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University as part of its Studies of the Harriman Instatute series. It is a pioneering study that contributes to our understanding of lived religion, saints' cults, and modern Russian history. 384pp $65.00 Cloth / $27.00 Paper (Penn State University - 2000) 4-2001

RASPUTIN (Sutton Pocket Biographies), Harry Shukman $10.00 Paper (Sutton - 1997) 4-2001

THE RASPUTIN FILE, Edvard Radzinsky; translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost file from the State Archives turned up, a file that contained the complete interrogations of Rasputin’s inner circle. With this extensive and explicit amplification of the historical record, Edvard Radzinsky has written a definitive biography, reconstructing in full the fascinating life of an improbable holy man who changed the course of Russian history. 576pp $16.00 Paper (Anchor - 2001) 3-2005

RASPUTIN: The Saint Who Sinned, Brian Moynahan Grigory Efimovich Rasputin come to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the “beloved Friend” of Tsar Nichoals and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. Rasputin’s name has become synonymous with evil, but his legend has obscured the facts of his life. In this evocative biography, Brian Moynahan presents us with a flesh-and-blood Rasputin, more fascinating than the myth - a man in whom debauchery coexisted beside a real (if erractic) spiritual sense, a man whose coarseness hid a savvy awareness of human psychology. Drawing on confidential police reports, cabinet meeting memos, and other documents, some available since the fall of the Soviet Union, Moynahan sheds new light on Rasputin’s life and disputes some of the widely held details of his death. The young Rasputin was a drinker, thief, and womanizer. He claimed to have religious visions and became a wandering holyman, preaching that exposure to sin could drive sin out. He stormed the fashinable salons of St. Petersburg, and in 1905 he met Nicholas and Alexandra, who, increasingly despised by the sophisticated, found in Rasputin reassurance that the “real Russia,” the simple and pious peasantry, loved them. Rasputin’s mysterious ability to stop the bleeding attackes of their hemophiliac only son, Alexis, sealed the approval of the domineering Alexandra. With royal patronage, Rasputin became increasingly reckless, partying with prostitutes, peddling influence, plotting the disgrace of those who crossed him. Ever contradictory, he was also a devoted family man, a defender of the poor, and a figure of immense charisma. As Germany battered Russia during World War I, as Nicholas’s ineptitude as a leader became ever more rampant and the masses went hungary, Rasputin seemed to monarchists to be the cause, and not just the symptom, of corrupt governemnt. A group of conspirators gathered - among them a grand duke and a scion of the richest family in Russia - and one of most famous murdes in history was planned. Set against the vivid backdrop of prerevolutionary Russia, “Rasputin” is a portrait of an age as well as of a man. 400pp $30.00 Hardcover / $16.00 Paper (Da Capo - 1997/2000) 3-2005

ST. GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS: An Intellectual Biography, John McGuckin St. Gregory of Nazianzus (ca 330-391) is one of the most important theologians of the early Christian Church and was without question one of the most learned men of his generation. Alongside Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. He worked to bring unity to a church deeply divided by the Arian crisis, and to demonstrate the perennial significance of the Nicene faith. He was the chief architect of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity of co-equal persons in God and an important christological writer whose works were definitive for the Council of Chalcedon. The Fathers of Chalcedon acclaimed him as "Gregory the Theologian," the title by which he has subsequently been known in the Eastern Church. In his dream of a world culture renewed by the spirit of the Gospel he stands as the veritable founding father of the Byzantine religious synthesis, and his own conception of the vision of God as light made him an important authority for Byzantine spiritual writers. This present study is the first critical analysis of the man, his writings and inner life in the English language. It offers definitive insight into the mind of one of the greatest protagonsits of Nicene theology, and through his extraordinary personality, opens a window onto the world of late antiquity and the place of the Christian Church in it. 575pp $36.00 Hardcover/ $23.00 Paper (SVS Press - 2001) 7-2001

SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, Stanley Lane-Poole; Introduction by David Nicolle In the tumultuous history of the Middle East, numerous men have aspired to claim the title of a “latter-day Saladin.” Egypt’s Gamal abdel-Nasser is perhaps the most famous example, an ambitious and charismatic leader who sought to unify all Arabs under one banner. Some have even suggested that this is Osama bin Laden’s ultimate goal - to unite the Muslim dispossessed in a holy war against the West akin to Saladin’s repulse of the crusader states. This modern context makes the publication of a new edition of Stanley Lane-Poole’s classic 1898 work Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem particularly apt. Even after more than 100 years, no biography of the 12 century Muslim ruler provides a better, more balanced appraisal of his life and mission. Stanley Lane-Poole’s Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem represented the culmination of a lifetime of study of Saladin and his times. Readers seeking insight into the Middle East of his day - or ours - should not pass up the opportunity to visit this timeless classic anew. Black and white illustrations, appendices, index. 320pp $40.00 Hardcover (Greenhill) 3-2005

SERAPHIM ROSE: The True Story and Private Letters, Cathy Scott For Orthodox Christians, Fr. Seraphim Rose is "a voice crying in the wilderness." His words have rekindled the love of countless Orthodox for the Church of their fathers. Orthodox all over the world regard him as a saintly prophet and spiritual giant. Cathy Scott, Fr. Seraphim's neice, has collected his private letters, never published before, and incorporated over 140 of them in this new biography. Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters, is the moving story of a spiritual passage from secularism to vibrant faith and saintly monastic asceticism. Scott opens Fr. Seraphim's life and thinking in a new and personal way. She shares memories of the family of Fr. Seraphim - or, as Cathy Scott and his close family and friends knew him, Eugene. The perosn revealed in this book is very human. We discover a more complete picture of the man who became Fr. Seraphim Rose and share in one of the most memorable and inspiring spiritual pilgrimages of our time. Seraphim Rose... is truly a story of rebirth! $24.95 Paper (Regina Orthodox Press - 2000) 4-2001

SHOSTAKOVICH: A Life Remembers, E. Wilson $20.00 Paper (Princeton) 4-2001

SOLZHENITSYN: A Soul in Exile, Joseph Pearce Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s book provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure. From his pro-Communist youth to his imprisonment in the Gulags, his exile in America to his return to Russia, this is the story of a man who has struggled with the most weighty questions of humanity. When a person has suffered the most terrible physical and emotional torture, what becomes of his spirit? Can politics and economics truly provide the answers a modern society needs? If peace and justice are never fully attained, what hope is there for the future? Arguably one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century, Solzhenitsyn has, both before and after the fall of Communism, spoken out against the Russian regime. His faith has deeply informed his literary approach and response to the excesses of modern materialism. On the spiritual, cultural, and sociopolitical level, his writings have much to teach the world. This biography contains previously unpublished prose poems, written by Solzhenitsyn since his return to Russia, and a gallery of rare photographs. 334pp $20.00 Hardcover (Plough - 1999) 3-2005

A SORROWFUL JOY (The Harold M. Wit Lectures - Harvard University, The Divinity School), Albert Raboteau; Foreword by Kimberly C. Patton; Introduction by J. Bryan Hehir Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father was shot and killed by a white man. It was during the 1940s, when blacks couldn’t swim at the same beach or drink from the same water fountain as whites, when the priest gave communion to white Catholics first and made others wait. In a moving account of this life, Raboteau tells how the boy grew into a man, married, became a success a college administrator, then leaned sorrow, lost his way and had to start over again. His is an American spiritual journey that is redolent of sacramental Christianity marking the sacredness of time, place and community. The journey brought him to a conversion that reconciled him to his own past, including his religious heritage, his African roots and family members. In the end his spiritual quest became a journey home, to a human circle that opened to him and brought him to God. 60ppp $7.00 Paper (Paulist - 2002) 3-2005

SURVIVING FREEDOM: After the Gulag, Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belorussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, courtmartialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimed Man is Wolf to Man, Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia, the deadliest camps in Stalin’s gulag system. In this sequel, Bardach picks up the narrative in March 1946, when he was released. He traces his thousand mile journey form the northeastern Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the period after the war, when the country was still in turmoil. He chronicles his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow; his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union; and his trip back to his hometown, where he confronts the shattering realization of the toll the war has taken, including the deaths of his wife, parents, and sister. In a tranchant exploration of loss, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and existential loneliness, Bardach plumbs his ordeal with honesty and compassion, affording a literary window into the soul of a Stalinist gulag survivor. Surviving Freedom is his moving account of how he rebuilt his life after tremendous hardship and personal loss. It is also a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. 20 black and white photographs, 5 maps. 300pp $28.00 Hardcover (University of California - 2003) 3-2005

THEY CALLED HER THE BARONESS: The Life of Catherine De Hueck Doherty, Lorene Hanley Duquin; foreword by Father John Catoir Born at the turn of the century into the wealth and luzury of Russian nobility, condemned to death duing the Bolshevik Revolution, an immigrant to North America, foundress of the Friendship Houses in America and Madonna Houses thorughout the world given to serve the poor, a pioneer in the Civial Rights Movement and a women passionatley in love with God, Catherine de Hueck Doherty remains an enigma ten years after her death. Considered a saint by some (her cause is under consideration) and a charlatan by others, hers is an undeniably extraordianry story. Included are excerpts from diaries, correspondence, photos, and interviews with family and associates. 356pp $15.00 Paper (Alba House) 3-2001

TO A DISTANT ISLAND, James McConkey "We have had many straight biographies of writers in recent years... that leave their subjects curiously diminished. Mr. McConkey's achievement... is to send the reader back to the Russian master with renewed wonder." - Harvey Shapiro, The New York Times In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,5000 miles to Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives. 1 map. 196pp $15.00 Paper (Paul Dry - 2000) 4-2001

THE UNKNOWN HOMELAND: A Samizdat Manuscript (Russian Spirituality Series),, translated by Marite Sapiets This is the true story of Fr. Pavel, a Russian Orthodox priest, his life in the last days of the Tsars and the early period of Soviet rule and his premature death in 1932 in Siberia. This is the true story of Fr. Pavel, a Russian Orthodox priest, his life in the last days of the Tsars and the early period of Soviet rule. Before making his profession as a monk he fell in love with a high spirited girl whom he met at a graduation ball at the girls school where he taught. After the October Revolution his wife repudiated religion and became an active atheist. He was arrested, given a prison sentence and exiled to Siberia. This book show Russian Orthodox spirituality in its simplicity, and profundity, earthed in a rich tradition that fills the lives of people who live by it. 247pp $7.95 Paper (Templegate - 1978/1980) 4-2001

UP FROM SERFDOM: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824, Aleksandr Nikitenko; translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson; Foreword by Peter Kolchin Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a teenager became fiercely determined to gain his freedom. In this memorable and moving book, here translated into English for the first time, Nikitenko recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude as well as the six year struggle that at last delievered him into freedom in 1824. Among the very few autobiographies ever written by an ex-serf, Up From Serfdom provides a unique portrait of serfdom in nineteenth century Russian and a profoundly clear sense of what such bondage meant to the people, the culture and the nation. Rising to eminence as a professor at St. Petersburg University, former serf Nikitenko set about writing his autobiography in 1851, relying on his own diaries (begun at the age of fourteen and maintained throughout his life), his father's correspondence and documents, and the stories that his parents and grandparents told as he was growing up. He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf's existence, illustrated most vividly by his father's lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko's description of the tragedy, despair, unpredictability, and astounding luck of his youth is a compelling human story that brings to life as never before the experiences of the serf in Russia in the early 1800s. 25 black and white illustrations, and 3 maps. 272pp $27.00 Hardcover / $19.00 Paper (Yale - 2001/2002) 6-2001/3-2005

VLADIMIR, THE RUSSIAN VIKING, Vladimir Volkoff Endowed with exceptional talents as a warrior, diplomat and administrator - not to mention a temperament that earned him the epithet 'fornicator immensus' in the chronicles of his contemporaries - Vladimir of Russia (960-1015) began his career at the age of twelve as the Prince of Novgoroad, later to become the benevolent 'Red Sun' in the annals of Russia's past. Volkoff tells Vladimir's story with gusto and humor, describing the years of conquest, violence, polygamy and pagan ritual as the remarkable pricne expanded his rule over the whole of Russia. A shrewd, hospitable and progressive ruler, he adopted the Christian faith from the Greeks one thousand years ago, and was recognized as a saint by all Christian Churches. 384pp $16.00 Paper (Overlook)

WORLD WAR II THROUGH POLISH EYES (East European Monographs Number 604) Maria Szonert-Binienda Intertwining the fate of a country with the life of one Polish family, this book tells the story of a Polish girl who attempted to outwit the Nazis and the Soviets. The events are true and based on extensive oral accounts of the participants and documents released only in Polish and never before available in English, including original Auschwitz letters and Nazi exhumation documents. 360pp $45.00 Cloth (Eas European Monographs - 2002) (East European Monographs - 2002) ( East European Mongraphs Number 604)

WOUNDED PROPHET: A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen, Michael Ford Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Roman Catholic priest, was one of the most beloved and important spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Although he could be profoundly revealing about his personal struggles through bestselling books such as The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Inner Voice of Love, there are still gaps in understanding Nouwen the human being. To remedy this, BBC producer Michael Ford conducted wide-ranging interviews with Nouwen's friends, collegues, and family members. With Wounded Prophet, readers now have their first portrait of Nouwen through his own words and through the eyes of the people who knew him best, and an honest and balanced account of his entire life. One 8 page insert with 24 black and white photographs. 256pp $24.00 Hardcover / $14.00 Paper (Doubleday - 2000) 3-2005

A WRITER’S DIARY: 1873-1881, Volume 1 (Russian Literature and Theory Series), Fedor M. Dostoevsky; Translated and Annotated by Kenneth Lantz; Introduction by Gary S. Morson “Man is a mystery,” Dostoevsky writes, “The mystery must be solved, and even if you spend your whole life attempting to solve it, do not say you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.” Dostoevsky’s immense and chaotic novels are his attempts to understand this mystery through his life, through writing. Remarkable in comparison to many other great Russian writers, he did not create caricatures of people and did not invent fanciful situations in order to apprehend truths, but sank himself deeply into his existence - its perils and emotions, failures and successes, with a far greater sense of reality - describing men and women as they are. He was engaging a real struggle between a real Christ and a real nihilism. The diaries are the place of his ruminations, where he connects the mind that is utterly free in the construction of the worlds of his fiction, to everyday occurrences, the lives of friends and family, fellow writers and artists, his emotions, and thousands of drafts of writing. Here is Dostoevsky in all his complexity, puzzling out, agonizing over what must be said. $50.00 Cloth / $30.00 Paper (Northwestern - 1993/1997) $3-2005

A WRITER’S DIARY: 1877-1881, Volume 2 (Russian Literature and Theory Series), Fedor M. Dostoevsky; Translated and Annotated by Kenneth Lantz $40.00 Cloth / $30.00 (northwestern - 1994/1997) 3-2005

THE YOUNG AUGUSTINE (Revised and Updated Edition), John J. O’Meara When the first edition of The Young Augustine appeared several decades ago, it received an enthusiastic reception and heralded a new era in Augustinian studies. Since then its reputation has grown and it is now accepted as a standard work which no one seriously interested in Augustine can afford to leave unread. Augustine’s formative years, up to his conversion, present a formidable task for a biographer: his was a complex personality blending a strong sensual, spiritual and intellectual traits. He was most certainly a child of his era, an age so difficult to understand and appreciate. Professor O’Meara, with his vast knowledge of the man and his times, has presented a readable and balanced portrait of Augustine as a young man; and his work gives us a clearer understanding of one of the towering figures in the history of Christianity. $15.00 Paper (Alba - 2001) 3-2005