Georgy Petrovich Fedotov (, October 1 (13) 1886,

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, – September 1, 1951, New York, US) was a

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religious philosopher, historian, essayist, author of many books on Orthodox culture, regarded by some as a founder of Russian "theological culturology". Fedotov left Soviet Russia under duress for France in 1925, then in 1939 emigrated to the United States where he taught at St. Vladimir Orthodox Seminary, New York, and continued publishing books up until his death in 1951. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1946–1947.

Works

*''Святой Филипп митрополит Московский.'' — Paris: Ymca-press, 1928. — 224 с. *''Святые древней Руси (X—XVII ст.)'' — Paris: Ymca press, 1931. — 260 с. *''The Russian Religious Mind'', New York, Harper & Brother, 1946 *''A Treasury of Russian Spirituality'', omp.& ed. London, Sheed & Ward, 1950 *''St. Filipp, Metropolitan of Moscow : encounter with Ivan the Terrible'', Belmont, Mass. : Nordland Pub. Co. 1978

References

External links

Biography in English at Academia.edu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedotov, Georgy Petrovich 1886 births 1951 deaths Writers from Saratov Russian male essayists 20th-century Russian essayists 20th-century Russian philosophers Soviet emigrants to France Soviet emigrants to the United States 20th-century Russian historians