The Archbishop who won the Stalin Prize

Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Iasenetskii (1877-1961) was already a successful surgeon when he decided to become a priest. Archbishop Luke was the founder of purulent surgery and won the Stalin Prize in medicine in 1946. He wrote many books on medicine and religion. Voino-Iasenetskii survived many arrests, soviet prisons, and camps. When he died, he was archbishop of Crimea and Simferopol`. In August 2000 he was recognized as a saint. This book is a collection of stories from his life based on unique archival documents which were opened just recently. Bibliography. (0.385 kg.). Also available about and by this amazing figure: Lisichkin, V.A. Krestnyi Put` Sviatitelia Luki: Podlinnye Dokumenty iz Arkhivov KGB (2002); Krymskii (Voino-Iasenetskii). “Ia Poliubil Stradanie...": Avtobiografiia (2004); Kolymagin, B.F. Krymskaia Ekumena: Religioznaia Zhizh` Poslevoennogo Kryma (2004); Shevchenko, Iu.L. Privetstvuet Vas Sviatitel` Luka, Vrach Vozliublennyi (2007); Krymskaia Eparkhiia pod Nachalom Sviatitelia Luki (Voino-Iasenetskogo) (2010).