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The Russians on Athos
Artikel-Nr:
9783906766935
Veröffentl:
2001
Seiten:
348
Autor:
Nicholas Fennell
Gewicht:
480 g
Format:
220x150x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Author: Nicholas Fennell graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in Modern and Mediaeval Languages, and gained a Ph.D. at Southampton University. He has been a guest lecturer at Yekaterinburg University on the European Community Tempus Scheme. He has also taught at the University of Toulouse, France, and in Yerevan State University, Soviet Armenia. For the last twenty-seven years he has been a schoolmaster, teaching literature and languages at Winchester College.
Greeks and Russians had coexisted on Athos for eight centuries, but from 1839 to the eve of the First World War their relations disintegrated. This book looks at the causes of this deterioration against the background of Balkan and European history, and examines the Prophet Elijah Skete, with which the modern story of the Russian Athonite community begins and is concluded. Hitherto, most of what has been written about the Russians on Athos has been from either a Greek or a Russian perspective. This book takes an objective view of the conflict. The author breaks new ground by using unpublished archive material, much of which has survived only on his microfilm.
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Contents: Greek-Russian relations in Europe - The Russians on Athos: pre 1841 and after - The Prophet Elijah Skete, its history from its foundation to the present day.