John of Kronstadt and Leo Tolstoy: A Story of One Enmity (Elena Shubina publications, AST, 2013). Tolstoy believed that the faith needed saving from the Church itself, and urged people to pray by ...

St. John of Kronstadt helped me in 1982, when I was subjected to persecutions by the atheist authorities—the Kiev regional plenipotentiary council for religious affairs—and they were actively aided by ...

RBTH presents an excerpt from Pavel Basinsky’s new book that reveals how the destinies of Leo Tolstoy and Saint John of Kronstadt, probably the two most popular figures of the age, are intertwined.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 3.—Father John of Kronstadt has refused to accept honorary membership in the Council of the University of Dorpat, to which he was elected with the view of appeasing the ...

If you had a chance to sit down for lunch with any celebrity, who would you choose?

He was ordained a priest in 2010 and had served at St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox Church in Utica, N.Y., and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Endicott, N.Y., before coming to Norwich. Kalish also is an ...