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Istoriya bolee dvukh let blokirovannogo nemetskimi i finskimi voyskami Leningrada privlekaet povyshennoe vnimanie, odnako do sikh por religioznaya zhizn´ blokadnogo Leningrada ostaetsya maloizvestnoy. V knige proslezhivaetsya istoriya obshchin vsekh konfessiy v blokirovannom gorode i vyyasnena rol´ tserkovnogo faktora v oborone Leningrada. Krome togo, byla izuchena religioznaya politika vlastey goroda ee kolebaniya, prichiny izmeneniy, osobennosti v otnoshenii razlichnykh konfessiy, masshtaby repressiy svyashchennosluzhiteley. Kniga osnovana na ranee neizvestnykh dokumentakh rossiyskikh i nemetskikh arkhivov. Monografiya ne tol´ko vo vsey polnote vossozdaet zhizn´ veruyushchikh v blokadnom Leningrade, no i vskryvaet dukhovnyy smysl protivostoyaniya Tserkvi bezbozhiyu i uzhasam voyny. Kniga rasschitana na vsekh interesuyushchikhsya istoriey Rossii i ee religioznykh organizatsiy v XX veke.

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Rodilsya v Leningrade 16 avgusta 1961 g. Doktor istoricheskikh nauk, glavnyy arkhivist Tsentral´nogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Sankt-Peterburga, professor Sankt-Peterburgskoy Pravoslavnoy Dukhovnoy Akademii. Avtor 450 nauchnykh publikatsiy, v tom chisle 53 knig.

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