Vladislav Al’bionovich Maevskii, 1893-1975
Born on April 4, 1893, Vladislav Al’bionovich Maevskii began his literary career early publishing his first work, a travel log, in 1913, after enlisting as volunteer in the Balkan War of 1912-1913. During the Civil War, he joined the White Army as staff captain in 1919, evacuating to Constantinople from the Crimea in 1920, and emigrating to Serbia, where he enrolled in the Theology Department of Belgrade University, graduating in 1931. Maevskii was a close friend of Patriarch Varnava (Rusich), and served both as his secretary and as librarian of the Patriarchal library. In Serbia, Maevskii regularly contributed to Russian émigré periodicals, and published several monographs on topics relating to Russian and Serbian church history, Russian history, and Mount Athos, which he visited several times, and which occupied an important place in Maevskii’s writings.
In 1945, Maevskii immigrated to the United States, having been invited to teach at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, PA. During his time at St. Tikhon’s Seminary, Maevskii invited Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovic), subsequently canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church, to join the Seminary’s faculty. Maevskii taught a wide variety of subjects, both theological and historical, and continued to publish not only books, but also articles in the Russian émigré press to the end of his life.
Vladislav A. Maevskii died on January 16, 1975, in New York.
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