Description
Correspondence, speeches and writings, and photographs, relating to the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian émigré affairs.
Background
Stefan Liashevskii was born in Taganrog, Russia, on June 17, 1899, and educated at the Novecherkassk tekhnikum, graduating
in 1934. He worked as senior geologist for the Azov-Black Sea Trust in Rostov-on-Don until he was arrested in 1936 and imprisoned
in a Siberian concentration camp for three years. On his release, Liashevskii returned to working as geologist. In 1943, however,
he was ordained to the priesthood by the Russian Orthodox Church. As the Reverend Stefan Liashevskii, he immigrated to Germany
in 1944, where he served in various parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, including the Saint Prokopius
church in Lübeck. Liashevskii arrived in the United States in 1957 and served briefly in the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate
before being assigned to a parish in Maine under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. He was also a
biblical scholar, historian and writer, publishing several works on various topics, including biblical archeology and lives
of the saints.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.