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Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogolepov () (January 16, 1886 – August 31, 1980) was Russian American theologian and religious writer.Д.А.Баринов, Е.А.Ростовцев
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Biography

Bogolepov was an expert in
canon law Canon law (from , , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical jurisdiction, ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its membe ...
and the history of the church.Lesley Chamberlain
p. 314
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February Revolution The February Revolution (), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup was the first of Russian Revolution, two revolutions which took place in Russia ...
he was pro-rector of science of Petrograd University. He was among the first professors singled out by
Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...
for deportation,Lesley Chamberlain
p. 79
/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
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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,
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, United States.


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

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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


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Alexander Alexandrovich Bogolepov
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogolepov 1886 births 1980 deaths Doctors of Divinity Burials at Novo-Diveevo Russian Cemetery Soviet emigrants to the United States Soviet expellees