Porfiri Korneevich Ivanov was an original thinker and unique healer, researcher and practitioner who was able to unite body and cognizance with Nature. He felt that a person should not be dependent on medicines to heal his body of various illnesses and maladies. In place of medicines Porfiri proposed to people that they take responsibility for their own illnesses, utilizing air and body and ground to achieve this. Porfiri Ivanov had a unique and almost miraculous ability to heal people of various illnesses, and the stamina to endure the worst of exposure to the elements, including extreme cold. By becoming one with Nature a person could also become one with God. Daniel H. Shubin has written several books on Russian history, biography and philosophy.

Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaievich Bugaev, the most prominent symbolist author in Russian history, and symbolism's greatest promoter as a new genre of Russian literature. Bely had deep religious and philosophic convictions, studying the great religious texts of history and the influential philosophers. He was the greatest promoter of anthroposophy in Russia, having studied under Rudolf Steiner in Europe. Beyond this, Bely graduated from Moscow University in honors, completing physics and mathematics curriculums and later studying history and language. He was a genius beyond our comprehension. His untimely death at age 53 was due to a brain aneurysm caused from stress for his refusal to capitulate to Soviet demands and become a socialist writer. This volume is his life, as well as a history of symbolism, and it includes a selection of his symbolist writings translated from Russian into English. Daniel H Shubin has written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

Concordia Evgenievna Antarova was a unique woman of especially firm character. After much study and dedication with a natural singing talent, Antarova rose to become Soviet Russia's greatest opera star. She possessed a singing and performance talent that could not be suppressed or equaled. During her later life, she acted as a mentor for those wanting a future in the arts. At the same time Antarova had a second life of a deeply spiritual person. Nonetheless, she and her husband were arrested and exiled to concentration camps, and where her husband died. After her release and during her isolation in her Moscow apartment, she received inspiration and revelation that culminated in her massive novel Two Lives, about the search for a spiritual life that transcended the corporeal life. At the same time, she promoted a life for the the benefit of family, society and nation. Daniel H. Shubin has translated several books from Russian into English and authored many on Russian philosophy, religion and history.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovski was the founder of Soviet astrophysics and cosmonautics. He was a self-taught scientist and inventor, a schoolteacher, a cosmic and futurist philosopher, and a science fiction writer. His important designs include dirigibles formed with a metallic shell with a unique navigation system, the jet propulsion engine, the use of rockets for space travel, high altitude balloons, air-cushion vehicles, high-speed trains, and heavier-than-air aircraft. This book is a portrait of this extraordinary man and his extraordinary mind. It provides a sketch of his life and an introduction to his views and ideology, and a collection of original translations of his scientific concepts of the universe and space travel, his cosmic and socialist philosophy, as well as his most popular science fiction story. Daniel H. Shubin translated many books from Russian into English and authored many on Russian history, philosophy and religion.

From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel H. Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 4-volume series. The events, people and places that created the institution of Russian Orthodoxy are presented objectively and intensively. Included in these volumes is research on the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries, the influence of Catholicism and Protestantism on Russia, and the presence of Judaism. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity with the involvement of tsars and prelates, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This third volume deals with the era of the Synodal government of the Russian Orthodox Church, and discusses the various dissenters and the sectarian groups of the 18th and 19th centuries. The period 1725 to 1894. Daniel H. Shubin has translated and written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel H. Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 4-volume series. The events, people and places that created the institution of the Russian Orthodox is presented objectively and intensively. Included in these volumes is research on the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries, the influence of Catholicism and Protestantism on Russia, and the presence of Judaism. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity with the involvement of tsars and prelates, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This second volume, deals with the Patriarchal Period, from 1586, the year of Tsar Ivan IV death, to 1725, the year of Tsar Peter the Great's death. Daniel H. Shubin has translated and written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel H. Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 4-volume series. The events, people and regions that created the traditions of Russian Christianity are presented objectively and intensively, describing the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church. Included in these volumes is research on the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries, the influence of Catholicism and Protestantism on Russia, and the presence of Judaism. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity with the involvement of tsars and prelates, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This first volume, deals with the period from Apostle Andrew to the death of Tsar Ivan IV, a period of almost 1600 years. Daniel H. Shubin has translated and written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel H. Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 4-volume series. The events, people and places that created the institution of Russian Orthodoxy are presented objectively and intensively. Included in these volumes is research on the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries, the influence of Catholicism and Protestantism on Russia, and the presence of Judaism. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity with the involvement of tsars and prelates, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This fourth volume deals with the Russian Orthodox Church during the 20th Century, from the ascension of Tsar Nicholas II in 1894, to Premier Mikhail Gorbachov's Edict of Freedom of Conscience in 1990. Daniel H. Shubin has translated and written several books on Russian history, religion and philosophy.

After the death of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in 1584, Boris Godunov governed from the backround during the 13-year reign of the borderline-retarded Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, and then for almost seven years in his own name. But the effects of his security forces on Russian society took their toll. After Godunov's death, Vasili Shuisky became tsar, then imposter princes were provide by rivals, and False Dmitris and other contenders fueled the flames. Enemies were brutally tortured and removed from the world altogether. At the same time the Russian Patriarchate was created with Job the first patriarch. The invasion of Poland added to the miseries of Russia, until the invaders were defeated. This Era of Upheavals, also known in Russian history as the Time of Troubles, came to a close only when Mikhail Romanov was crowned tsar in 1613. Daniel H. Shubin has translated and published several books on Russian history, philosophy and religion.

Little is known regarding prisons located inside Russian Orthodox monasteries for the incarceration and persecution of religious dissenters and sectarians, political activists, and criminals. This book focuses on the history of such prisons and the lives of the inmates subject to monastery incarceration by Imperial Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. The period covered begins 1441, and ends 1905. Likewise included are the women incarcerated in convents over the same period. This is a part of history that is unknown to the non-Russian speaking world, and which the author hopes to unveil. This book deals with the fate of those known as monastery prisoners, those individuals having the misfortune due to violations against Orthodoxy, or against Imperial Russia, to be incarcerated in a monastery prison. Daniel H Shubin has written several books on history, philosophy and religion of Russia.

The message preached by Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, that the essence of the gospel is the deliverance of humanity from its perpetual self-destructive trend of warfare and the many sufferings that result from it. This book will also unveil that his message consisted of peaceful coexistence and toleration between people and nations. Evidence will also be provided to the reader to testify that the only proper manner for a Christian to conduct himself in the matter of war and military service is to refuse. The author, Daniel H. Shubin has written in the past a theology and a commentary on the Bible, compiled a 4-volume History of Russian Christianity, and books on philosophy and religion. Dan was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War (as was his father during World War 2) and also acts as an advisor for military-age young men of his denomination. He has been married 41 years to wife AnnaMarie, and they have 3 adult offspring.

Grigori Savvich Skovoroda is the person that all philosophers wish to become. He was a mendicant teacher, nomad and Christian humanist, and the exceptional talents he possessed provided him the means for success as he preached his version of Christian humanism. He had a profound mind, phenomenal memory, and played several musical instruments. Along with knowing the Russian and Ukrainian languages, Skovoroda was fluent in Hebrew, German, Latin and Greek, and translated works of Cicero and Plutarch from Greek into Ukrainian. He also had a photographic memory of the Bible. Skovoroda traveled on foot southern Russia and eastern Ukraine for some 30 years, influencing every person he met and household he visited and compiling a library of compositions of his version of Christian humanism. His memory and influence endures to the present. This volume contains a biography, analysis of his philosophy, and a translation into English of several selections of his work.