The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare
close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its
priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history.
The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the
1920s and played a significant part in Russian national life for
nearly fifty years. Adherents to the Orthodox faith often referred
to the catacomb church as the "light shining in the dark." Women of
the Catacombs provides a first-hand portrait of lived religion in
its social, familial, and cultural setting during this tragic
period. Until now, scholars have had only brief, scattered
fragments of information about Russia's illegal church organization
that claimed to protect the purity of the Orthodox tradition. Vera
Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia and Elena Semenovna Men, who joined the
church as young women, offer evidence on how Russian Orthodoxy
remained a viable, alternative presence in Soviet society, when all
political, educational, and cultural institutions attempted to
indoctrinate Soviet citizens with an atheistic perspective. Wallace
L. Daniel's translation not only sheds light on Russia's religious
and political history, but also shows how two educated women
maintained their personal integrity in times when prevailing
political and social headwinds moved in an opposite direction.
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