Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogolepov () (January 16, 1886 – August 31, 1980) was Russian American theologian and religious writer.
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Biography
Bogolepov was an expert in canon law
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and the history of the church.[Lesley Chamberlain]
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/ref> After the February Revolution
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he was pro-rector of science of Petrograd University.[ He was among the first professors singled out by ]Vladimir Lenin
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for deportation,[Lesley Chamberlain]
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/ref> and eventually in 1922 he was shipped off into exile to Germany on board of a " Philosophers' ship".[Alexander V. Razin and Tatiana J. Sidorina]
"The Philosophers’ Ship"
''Philosophy Now'', issue 31, 2001[ He settled in Berlin and also worked in ]Prague
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. In March 1945 he moved from Berlin to Western Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1951.[ He became Professor of Canon Law are Russian and Church Slavonic languages at the Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York.][
He was interred in the Novo-Diveevo Russian Cemetery, Nanuet, Rockland County, ]New York
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Books
*М.М. Ковалевский, как историк политической мысли. Пг., 1916;
*Православные песнопения Рождества, Страстной и Пасхи. Таллин, 1934;
*Церковь под властью коммунизма. Мюнхен, 1958;
*Toward an American Orthodox Church. N. Y., 1963;
*Church Reforms in Russia, 1905-1918. Bridgeport (Connecticut), 1966;
*Рождество, Страстная и Пасха в православном богослужении. Нью-Йорк, 1973.
References
Literature
*Lesley Chamberlain
Lesley Chamberlain (born 26 September 1951, Rochford, Essex) is a British author who has written in a number of different genres — travel writing, food writing, Russian history, German history, fiction — after beginning as a journalis ...
, Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, St Martin's Press, 2007; UK: The Philosophy Steamer Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, Atlantic Books, 2006
External links
Alexander Alexandrovich Bogolepov
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1886 births
1980 deaths
Doctors of Divinity
Burials at Novo-Diveevo Russian Cemetery
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Soviet expellees