Review on the book by Pavlov D. V. «I will call you to prayer until the day I die»: Life and Ministry of Metropolitan Guriy (Egorov). Moscow: Izd-vo PSTGU, 2021. 1248 pp.

Abstract

The proposed review of the monograph by D. V. Pavlov, dedicated to the study of the life path of Metropolitan Guriy (Egorov), compares different approaches to writing biographies of church figures of the 20th century. A conclusion is made about the optimal combination of scientific and journalistic methods of D. V. Pavlov when presenting the material. This format of elaborating historical descriptions allows both to interest the reader and to fully enable subsequent researchers to use the obtained scientific results. The review provides a brief plan for constructing the monograph, and also shows the volume of archival information resources used by the author and scattered across different parts of the territory of the former Soviet Union. Two interesting problems raised by D. V. Pavlov are examined. First is the consolidation of dioceses in the post-war period, associated with a shortage of bishops, and second, the author’s attempt to determine the type of bishop to which Metropolitan Guriy (Egorov) belonged. Special attention is paid to activities of the author of the monograph to promote his work in the scientific and public sphere, both on the basis of personal communication with readers and using modern information technologies. The awards that this work, published in 2021, has already received are listed.

Keywords

• d. v. pavlov
• metropolitan guriy (egorov)
• russian orthodox church
• consolidation of dioceses
• metropolitan gregory (chukov)
• archbishop philip (stavitsky)