Many worlds : a Russian life / Sophie Koulomzin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koulomzin, Sophie, 1903-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Koulomzin, Sophie, 1903-2000.

Koulomzin, Sophie.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Biography.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

326 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1980.

Summary:

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: childhood on family estates in Old Russia; the hardships of revolutionary Moscow; life in the Russian emigration in Western Europe and as a foreign student in America; the challenge of combining marriage and a family with service in the Church; making a new life in America after world War II; returning to Russia, this time as a tourist. She shares with us the experiences -- and the wisdom -- of a lifetime. In doing so, she gives us in microcosm the history of a fascinating generation.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Happy Kingdom 7

Chapter 2 The Break 1917-1920 39

Chapter 3 Estonia 1920-1922 73

Chapter 4 Berlin-Paris, 1922-1926 97

Chapter 5 Letters from America, 1926-1927 125

Chapter 6 Building a New Life, 1927-1939 149

Chapter 7 Russians, French and Germans At War, 1939-1943 179

Chapter 8 La Seguiniere, 1943-1945 231

Chapter 9 Postwar Interim: Paris, 1945-1948 259

Chapter 10 Our Life in the United States, 1949-1970 273

Chapter 11 Russia, Revisited, 1970 303.

ISBN:

0913836729 :

OCLC:

6554961