Reflecting on a Friend’s Book, or a Few Words on the Monograph: S. Yu. Akishin, Professor Alexey Afanasyevich Dmitrievsky: Scholarly Biography. Part 1: 1856–1907. Ekaterinburg: Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary, 2025. 544 pp.: ill. (Sources and Studies in

Abstract

In 2025, a monograph by S. Yu. Akishin, devoted to the biography of Professor A. A. Dmitrievsky, an outstanding church scholar and public figure, was published. The reviewer shares his impressions of the book, noting its scientific value and the significance of the research. It appears that this book about the renowned liturgist may be useful not only to specialists in the history of liturgy and of theologi­cal schools of the past, but also to a wider range of readers interested in the history of the Russian Empire, the Russian Church, as well as in the development of the humanities and education. The book opens a window onto an entire world in which the “Russian Goar” lived and worked.