Alexander Bogolepov
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Bogolepov was an expert in canon law and the history of the church.[3] After the February Revolution he was pro-rector of science of Petrograd University.[2] He was among the first professors singled out by Vladimir Lenin for deportation,[4] and eventually in 1922 he was shipped off into exile to Germany on board of a "Philosophers' ship".[5][2] He settled in Berlin and also worked in Prague. In March 1945 he moved from Berlin to Western Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1951.[2] He became Professor of Canon Law are Russian and Church Slavonic languages at the Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York.[3][2]
He was interred in the Novo-Diveevo Russian Cemetery, Nanuet, Rockland County, New York, United States.[1]
Books
- М.М. Ковалевский, как историк политической мысли. Пг., 1916;
- Православные песнопения Рождества, Страстной и Пасхи. Таллин, 1934;
- Церковь под властью коммунизма. Мюнхен, 1958;
- Toward an American Orthodox Church. N. Y., 1963;
- Church Reforms in Russia, 1905-1918. Bridgeport (Connecticut), 1966;
- Рождество, Страстная и Пасха в православном богослужении. Нью-Йорк, 1973.