Description

This book, published in Russian in Kiev (present-day Ukraine) in 1890, describes the life and work of Bishop Vladimir (1852‒1931), who served as the head of the Russian Orthodox mission to North America in the years 1888−91. Vladimir’s appointment to the post on December 20, 1887, ended a six-year period during which the mission had been governed from Saint Petersburg. Vladimir’s official title was archbishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, but he was also active in Orthodox matters in other parts of the United States. He ...