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The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest. Fr Afanasy Belyaev, whose diary forms the core of this work, served as chaplain and father confessor to the Russian Imperial family during the period of Tsar Nicholas' abdication and five-month house arrest in 1917 in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. Fr Afanasy, rector of the Feodorovsky Cathedral (located near the Alexander palace), was invited there to officiate at church services. In his diary, he skillfully relates his observations of the daily realities of the family's life.
NY (Jordanville): The Printshop of St Job of Pochaev, 2018. Hardcover, 136 pages. Illustration section. About fine condition, small invisible sticker remnant first page top right.
Archpriest Victor Potapov is rector of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Over the course of three decades, he ran the "Religion in Our Life" program on Voice of America. Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey is a historian specializing in Russian decorative arts and cultural history.
More detailed information can be found here: Nicholas II Abdication
