1906 October 6

Born, Vladimir, Russia

1930

Graduated, Moscow State University

1930

Arrested and sentenced to five years in prison camp

1934

Released from prison camp

1941

Drafted

1942

POW camp, Germany

1951

Arrived in the United States

1952

Author, Nevidimaia Rossiia

1954

Author, Rossiia soldatskaia

1955-1975

Taught Russian history, University of Minnesota

1955

Author, The foreign policy of the Moscow Patriarchate, 1939-1953: materials for the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S.S.R.

1962

Author, The two Russian revolutions of 1917

1967

Defended Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota

1976

Author, The great revival: the Russian Church under German occupation

1990

Author, Rol’ tserkvi v sozdanii russkoi gosudarstva: period ot nashestviia tatar do Ivana III

2002 October 8

Died, Minneapolis, MN