History of Christianity

Code: 011895
Vsemirnoe Pisanie
Sravnitel`naia Antologiia Sviashchennykh Tekstov
[ Vsemirnoe Pisanie : Sravnitel`naia Antologiia Sviashchennykh Tekstov ]
Moscow: Respublika, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This anthology of sacred texts of old and new world religions was prepared by theologians, philosophers, linguists, and historians from around the world. Many of these texts have never been translated into Russian before.

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Code: 022250
Narodnaia Bibliia"
Vostochnoslavianskie Etiologicheskie Legendy
[ "Folk bible" : Eastern Slavic etiological legends ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

This volume in the series "Traditional spiritual culture of the Slavs" is a collection of narrations of the Bible in Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian folklore. The book includes about 1,300 stories, most of them published for the first time.

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Code: 029088
Seregina, N.S
Slovo o Polku Igoreve" i Russkaia Pevcheskaia Gimnografiia XII Veka

[ "The Song of Igor`s Campaign" and Christian hymnography : ]
Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This monograph compares "The Song of Igor`s Campaign" and Christian hymnography based on an innovative textological method. The author applies the method of intonation-rhythmic and semantic characteristics of Christian hymnography to analysis of "The Song" which helps to find new lexical and semantic characteristics of the text and allows the author to make new comments.

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Code: 020358
Ionina, N.A
100 Velikikh Monastyrei

[ 100 Great monasteries : ]
Moscow: Veche, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

This is a collection of stories about one hundred of the best known monasteries. Most of them are Christian but several Buddhist monasteries are also included. About half of these monasteries are located in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

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Code: 001224
Kolesnikova, V.S
Kratkaia Entsiklopediia Pravoslaviia
Put` k Khramu
[ A Concise encyclopedia of Russian Orthodoxy : The Road to Church ]
Moscow: Tsentropoligraf, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This encyclopedia includes information about Russian Orthodoxy: its history, Church hierarchy, liturgy, sacraments, saints, composition of the Church, its decoration and dress code, history of the best known icons and icon veneration, Christian morality, prayer, holidays and rituals, Easter calendar for 2001-2015, and a short dictionary.

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Code: 006048
Il`in, I.A
O Soprotivlenii Zlu Siloi

[ About resistance to evil with force : ]
Moscow: DAR`, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 14.30

The title of this book is a rephrasing of the famous saying by Leo Tolstoi. The book by the Russian philosopher Ivan Il`in (1883-1954) is an argument with the prevalent philosophy of "non-violent resistance" in the situation when the people who attack your house and country are not strangers but your neighbors, your compatriots.

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Code: 017473
Akafisty Presviatoi Bogoroditse
Raduisia, Radoste Nasha
[ Akathists praising the Mother of God : Raduisia, Radoste Nasha ]
Moscow: Pravoslavnyi Molotvoslov, Lestvitsa, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

Thirty Akathists praising the Mother of God.

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Code: 029813
Vinogradov, A.Iu.; Grishchenko, A
Andrei Pervozvannyi: Opyt Nebiograficheskogo Opisaniia

[ Andrew the Apostle: Attempted non-biographical account : ]
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 36.00

Not much is known about the apostle Andrew Protokletos, or the First-called, one of the disciples of Christ according to the New Testament, and the brother of Saint Peter. Vladimir Monomakh ordered the inclusion of a version of apostle Andrei`s mission and his trip to Russia in the chronicle "Povest` Vremennykh Let" (The Tale of Bygone Years).

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Code: 026640
ARCHEOLOGIA ABRAHAMICA
Issledovaniia v Oblasti Arkheologii i Khudozhestvennoi Traditsii Iudaizma, Khristianstva i Islama
[ ARCHEOLOGIA ABRAHAMICA : Studies in archaelogy and artistic tradition of Judaism, Christianity and Islam ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2009
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 45.00

This is a collection of articles by scholars from Israel, Russia, Serbia, the USA and Ukraine in studies in the archeology and artistic tradition of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean region.

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Code: 002925
Pomestnye Pravoslavnye Tserkvi

[ Autocephalous Orthodox Churches : ]
St. Petersburg - Moscow: Izd-vo Sretenskogo Monastyria, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 45.00

This book is quite original in its design and execution. It is about the fifteen autocephalous Orthodox Churches in their order by diptych: Constantinople, Alexandria, etc. It consists of two chapters.

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Code: 010564
Ioann, St. Petersburg and Ladoga Metropolitan
Samoderzhavie Dukha
Ocherki Russkogo Samosoznaniia
[ Autocracy of mind : Essays on Russian self-consciousness ]
Saratov: Nadezhda, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.50

The author narrates the history of Russia from the conversion until the present time from the Russian Orthodox point of view. Includes bibliographic references.

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Code: 001562
Vavilon i Ierusalim
Blizhenevostochnyi Konflikt v Svete Biblii
[ Babylon and Jerusalem : Middleastern conflict in light of the Bible ]
Moscow: Mikhael Chernoy Foundation, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This book consists of four parts. The first part is an anthology of Russian Orthodox writings about the fate of Israel and Jerusalem. The second part is a translation of the book "Babylon or Jerusalem?" by Jan Willem van der Hoeven.

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Code: 003349
Bibliia
Knigi Sviashchennogo Pisaniia Vetkhogo i Novogo Zaveta: Kanonicheskie
[ Bible : New and Old testaments: Cannonical ]
: Rossiiskoe Bibleiskoe Obshchestvo, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

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Code: 002252
Tiulenev, V.M
Rozhdenie Latinskoi Khristianskoi Istoriografii
S Prilozheniem Perevoda "Tserkovnoi Istorii" Rufina Akvileiskogo
[ Birth of Latin Christian historiography : With supplement of the first published translation of "The History of the Church" by Rufinus from Aquileia ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Olega Abyshko, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 31.20

This is the first Russian study of the history of the Latin Christian historiography (4th-early 5th centuries) and introduction to the Russian audience of several authors of that time. Appendix includes the first publication in Russian translation of The History of the Church by Latin theologian and priest Rufinus (Tyrannius) from Aquileia (345?-410).

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Code: 003617
Blagoslovennaia Optina
Vospominaniia Palomnikov ob Obiteli i ee Startsakh
[ Blessed Optina : Memoirs of pilgrims about the cloisters and elders ]
Moscow: Otchii Dom, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.50

This collection of memoirs is about Optina Pustyn`, the blessed hermitage founded in 15th century near the town of Kaluga, 200 km. from Moscow. Commentaries about contributors.

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Code: 026460
Lebedev, A.P
Brat`ia Gospodni
Issledovaniia po Istorii Drevnei Tserkvi
[ Brothers of our Lord : Researches in the history of the early Church ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Olega Abyshko, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This is the first of five volumes in the series of publications, Issledovaniia po Istorii Drevnei Tserkvi, by A.P. Lebedev (1845-1908), a professor at the Russian Orthodox Seminary and the Moscow University.

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Code: 015054
Semenova, A.N
Dorogami Pravoslaviia

[ By the road of Orthodoxy : ]
St. Petersburg: Nevskii Prospekt, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 9.00

This book is addressed to people who have just turned to Russian Orthodoxy. It explains the seven main sacraments, major feasts, the liturgy and service, the structure of the Orthodox Church, main icons, saints, scriptures and basics of the Old Church language, basic fasts, and prayers for different occasions.

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Code: 018932
Florovskii, Georgii
Vizantiiskie Ottsy V-VIII vv

[ Byzantine Church Fathers : ]
Minsk: Kharvest, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

Archpriest Georgii Florovskii ( 1893-1979) was one of the best known Russian religious philosophers, theologians and historians of the Church. This book continues the book Eastern Church Fathers of the fourth century.

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Code: 025384-2
Shevchenko, Iu.Iu
Khristianskie Peshchernye Sviatyni
Tom 2: Podzemnye Sviatyni Khristianskoi Rusi: Genezis, Funktsionirovanie, Kontekst
[ Christian cave sanctuaries : Volume 2: Underground Sanctuaries of Christian Rus`: Genesis, Functioning, Context ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 87.00

This is the most complete study on underground sanctuaries of Christian Rus`: their genesis, functioning, process of sacralization by Eastern Slavs, religious context and meaning. It is based on numerous ethnographic data and archeological studies.

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Code: 003571
Goricheva, T.M
Khristianstvo i Sovremennyi Mir

[ Christianity and the modern world : ]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 15.00

In this collection of 15 essays published in the 1980’s and 90’s in various periodicals, the author speaks about the Christian tragedy in modern Russia from the position of a true believer, painfully enduring the crisis.

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Code: 028558
Khristianstvo na Severnom Kavkaze
Istoriia i Sovremennost`: Sbornik Statei
[ Christianity in the North Caucasus : History and the present: Collected articles ]
Moscow: IEA RAN, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This book based on archive materials and data gained during field ethnographic research deals with the history and the modern state of Christianity in the North Caucasus. It examines various aspects of Orthodoxy among the Cossacks and peoples of the North Caucasus, as well as forms of the Protestant movement and other Christian movements in the region.

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Code: 023664
Lebedev, A.P
Tserkovno-istoricheskie Povestvovaniia Obshchedostupnogo Soderzhaniia i Izlozheniia
Iz Davnikh Vremen Khristianskoi Tserkvi
[ Church-historical narrations in popular version : From ancient times of the Christian Church ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Olega Abyshko, Kifa, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

Though this book by the world known scholar Aleksandr Lebedev (1845-1908) was written for a wide audience, it is still based on the most recent studies for his time. The book covers the home and family life of ancient Christians.

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Code: 023380-5
Merezhkovskii, D.S. (Dmitrii Sergeevich)
D. Merezhkovskii. Sobranie Sochinenii
Reformatory. Ispanskie Mistiki
[ Collected works : Reformers. Spanish mystics ]
Moscow: Respublika, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

This volume of collected unnumbered works D.S. Merezhkovskii (1865-1941), a famous Russian writer and a religious philosopher, includes his two last trilogies: Reformers: Luther, Calvin, Pascal; Spanish Mystics: St.

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Code: 020681
Azarov, A.A. (Aleksei Alekseevich)
Bolshoi Anglo-Russkii Slovar` Religioznoi Leksiki

[ Comprehensive English-Russian Dictionary of Religious Terminology : ]
Moscow: Flinta, Nauka, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

This dictionary contains over 25,000 words and expressions covering the terminology of all major religions of the world. Many of the words have not been included in previously published dictionaries.

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Code: 001557
Uspenskii, B.A
Krest i Krug
Iz Istorii Khristianskoi Simvoliki
[ Cross and circle : From the history of Christian symbolism ]
Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskikh Kul`tur, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This new monograph by the famous Russian philologist Boris Uspenskii reconstructs religious beliefs reflected in some rituals with use of the Christian symbols. Contents: Right and left in Church ceremonies: Sign of the cross in the Russian Orthodox and Catholic ceremonies; The Structure of sacred space in Moscovite Rus; Solar-Lunar symbolism in the image of Russian temple.

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Code: 006852-1
Klimenko, L.P
Slovar` Perenosnykh, Obraznykh i Simvolicheskikh Upotreblenii Slov v Psaltyri
Chast` 1: Psalmy 1-50
[ Dictionary of figurative, picturesque and symbolic words in the Psalter : Part one: Psalms 1-50 ]
Nizhnii Novgorod: Izd-vo Bratstva Aleksandra Nevskogo, 2000
Language: Russian and Church Slavonic

Price: $ 18.00

This explanatory dictionary includes over 630 words and expressions used in the first fifty psalms in their indirect, figurative, picturesque and symbolic, meaning. Each entry contains an exegetical explanation, quotes from the Psalter and various interpretations of the word from the works of Russian Orthodox teachers.

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Code: 006852
Klimenko, L.P
Slovar` Perenosnykh, Obraznykh i Simvolicheskikh Upotreblenii Slov v Psaltyri
Chast` 1: Psalmy 1-50. Chast` 2: Psalmy 51-100
[ Dictionary of figurative, picturesque and symbolic words in the Psalter : Part one: Psalms 1-50. Part two: Psalms 51-100 ]
Nizhnii Novgorod: Izd-vo Bratstva Aleksandra Nevskogo, 2004
Language: Russian and Church Slavonic

Price: $ 33.00

This explanatory dictionary includes about 1,500 words and expressions used in the one hundred psalms in their indirect, figurative, picturesque and symbolic, meaning. Each entry contains an exegetical explanation, quotes from the Psalter and various interpretations of the word from the works of Russian Orthodox teachers.

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Code: 005373
Slovar` Govorov Staroobriadtsev (Semeiskikh) Zabaikal`ia

[ Dictionary of Semeisky Old Believer dialects of Transbaikalia : ]
Novosibirsk: Izd-vo SO RAN, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This dictionary covers the dialect vocabulary spoken by the descendants of the Semeisky Old Believers, who were expelled from their motherland, and who since the 18th century have been surrounded by other dialects in the remote areas of Transbaikalia.

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Code: 007507
Bogosluzhebnyi Iazyk Russkoi Tserkvi
Istoriia. Popytki Reformatsii
[ Divine Service language in the Russian Church : History. Attempts of reform ]
Moscow: Izdanie Sretenskogo Monastyria, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This book discusses a crucial problem in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church. It represents various positions in the dispute about the Divine Service language and the correction of Church service books in Russia from the 15th to 20th centuries.

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Code: 024449
Shustova, Iu.E
Dokumenty L`vovskogo Uspenskogo Stavropigiiskogo Bratstva (1586-1788)
Istochnikovedcheskoe Issledovanie
[ Documents of the Lvov Assumption Stavropigion community (1586-1788) : Source study ]
Moscow: Rukopisnye pamiatniki drevnei Rusi, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 52.00

The book is based on the unique archive of L`vov Assumption Stavropigion community (L`vov Uspenskoe Bratstvo). The L`vov Uspenskoe Bratstvo was one of the town corporations of the end of the 16th-18th centuries.

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