Russian church. The twentieth century. The Russian Church during the persecution of 1917-39. Evidence. T. 2. In 2 book

The real two -volume man continues the project "History of the Russian Church of the 20th century in the testimonies of contemporaries" and covers the most dramatic period of Russian church history - the period of the revolution and the persecution of the church after it (from 1917 to 1939).
Personal documents - Devters, private correspondence, memoirs (memoirs) - have always been of the most important interest for historical science, including the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. They unusually vividly and vividly reflect the atmosphere of the era, thoughts and feelings of direct participants in events, complementing the texts of official documents. This project - the anthology of excerpts from memoirs, letters and diaries - is first dedicated to Russian church history and is a unique phenomenon. More than a hundred authors, several hundred fragments of texts (some archival documents are published for the first time) represent the reader of an unusually wide panorama of Russian church life by the most bitter and most glorious era - the era