- The Church Shared the Burden of Life Under Siege with
Its People
By Mikhail Shkarovskiy
About the author: Mikhail Vitalyevich Shkarovskiy, doctor of historical sciences, leading
scientist of the Central State Archive in Saint Petersburg.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, foreign policy circumstances made it necessary for
Soviet authorities to abandon their plan to totally destroy the Russian Orthodox [...]