Ivan Mikhailovich Andreev (Andreevskii), 1894-1976
Born on March 14, 1894, Ivan Mikhailovich Andreevskii studied at the Sorbonne from 1912-1914, and graduated from the Psikhonevropatologicheskii institut in St. Petersburg in 1918. As a student, Andreevskii was a participant of philosophical circles, along with Dmitri Likhachev, as a result of which both were sent to the Solovetsk concentration camp; Andreevskii spent five years incarcerated.
In 1950, he arrived in the United States, where he resumed his activities as writer, editor, and academic. For two decades, Andreevskii taught various subjects at Holy Trinity Seminary, and published and edited numerous works, among them O polozhenii pravoslvanoi tserkvi v Sovietskom siuze, O kharaktere nauchno-ateisticheskoi propagandy v Sovietskoi Rossii, and Russkii natsional’nyi kalendar’.
Ivan Mikhailovich Andreevskii died on December 30, 1976, in Jordanville, N.Y.
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