Research Catalog

Title

Journey to freedom / Sergei Ovsiannikov ; translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky.

Author

Ovsi︠a︡nnikov, Sergiĭ, protoiereĭ

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pevear, Richard, 1943-
• Volokhonsky, Larissa

Description

xxix, 255 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Whilst serving in the Soviet army in 1973, Sergei Ovsiannikov was arrested and imprisoned for acts of disobedience under military command. It was while in prison, like Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky, that he began to ponder deeper issues and on release trained to be a Russian orthodox priest. This extraordinary but short book is about his search for true freedom. The issues he wrestles with are profound and, like any confrontation with truth, it caused him great anguish and pain. As Ovsiannikov wrote: 'It was in my prison cell that I lost fear. I realised that if they sent me to a labour camp with a long sentence, it did not matter because I was free. Of course subsequently I came to realise that freedom is not given, you have to take responsibility for it.' It was during this time that he discovered Christianity and decided that this was the real meaning of his life. Later, after a period spent with the Russian Orthodox community in London, Ovsiannikov lived for the last twenty years of his life in Amsterdam in charge of the Russian Orthodox community. Drawing heavily on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pushkin and translated from the original Russian by celebrated translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky with an introduction by Rowan Williams, this brief spiritual book is a small masterpiece of its kind.

Uniform Title

Kniga pro svobodu. English

Alternative Title

Kniga pro svobodu.

Subject

• Liberty > Philosophy
• Liberty > Religious aspects

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Note

• First published in Russia by Nikea, 2018.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Contents

Lost freedom -- Finding yourself -- Through the prism of freedom -- Coming out into liberty.

Call Number

JFD 21-2178

ISBN

• 1472983904
• 9781472983909

OCLC

1151073896

Author

Ovsi︠a︡nnikov, Sergiĭ, protoiereĭ, author.

Title

Journey to freedom / Sergei Ovsiannikov ; translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Translated from the Russian.

Added Author

Pevear, Richard, 1943- translator.

Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781472983916

Research Call Number

JFD 21-2178