Pavel Florensky
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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint. During the later twen
Father Pavel Florensky
Mikhail Nesterov's Philosophers (1917), Pavel Florensky (left) and Sergei Bulgakov
Pavel Florensky after his arrest in 1934
Sergius of Radonezh
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Sergius of Radonezh was a Russian Orthodox spiritual leader and monastic reformer.
Pavel Florensky
…Lavra and published his works on ancient Russian art. He was rumoured to be the main organizer of a secret endeavour to save the relics of St. Sergii Radonezhsky whose destruction had been ordered by the government. In the second half of the 1920s, he mostly worked on physics and electrodynamics, eventually…
Icon of Sergius of Radonezh, 17th century
Vision to the Youth Bartholomew, by Mikhail Nesterov (1890).
Sergius of Radonezh blessing by Sergei Kirillov
Sergius of Radonezh blessing Dmitri Donskoi before the Battle of Kulikovo in a painting by Ernst Lissner.