Eastern Orthodox Victims of Soviet Repressions: Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Kolchak, Nikolai Lossky, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 142. Not illustrated. Chapters: Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Kolchak, Nikolai Lossky, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Ivan Ilyin, Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch Ambrose of Georgia, Nikolai Berdyaev, Nikolay Gumilyov, Alexandru Baltag, Alexander Hotovitzky, Peter of Krutitsy, Andronic Nikolsky, Andrei Shkuro, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Veniamin, Metropolitan Vasyl, Semen L. Frank, Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Catherine Schneider, Metropolitan Joseph, Alexander Dutov, Viktor Pokrovsky, Hermogenes, Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, Seraphim Chichagov, Philosophers' Ships, Artemie Munteanu. Excerpt: Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (Russian: , November 16 1874 February 7, 1920) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later head of all the anti-Bolshevik White forces during the Russian Civil War. He was also a prominent expert on naval mines and a member of the Russian Geographic Society. Among Kolchak's awards are the golden saber For Valor in the battle of Port Arthur and the Great Gold Constantine Medal from the Russian Geographic Society. Soviet maps depicted Kolchak Island up until the mid-1930s. Kolchak on ZaryaKolchak was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874 into a military family descending from the 18th-century Romanian mercenary Ilia Colceag. His father was a retired major-general of the Marine Artillery, who was actively engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and after his retirement worked as an engineer in ordnance works near St. Petersburg. He was educated for a naval career, graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894 and joining the 7th Naval Battalion of the city. He was soon transferred to the Far East, serving in Vladivostok from 1895 to 1899. He returned to western Russia and was based at Kronstadt, joining the Polar expedition of Eduard Toll on ship Zary...