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A comprehensive study of the American and Western European ‘biassed’ and false interpretations of Russian history in academia and popular culture. Published in New York during WWII.

The author, archpriest Vasilii Demidov (1885-1951) presents a series of erroneous statements and curious situations inspired by ‘anti-Russian’ Western propaganda and later by the Soviet propaganda portraying tsarist Russia as an underdeveloped and barbaric state. Demidov was a military priest in the White Army in the Volga and Siberia during the Civil War; later he emigrated to Harbin and then to the US where he was a rector of many parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church and a professor at the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in Jordanville.

Provenance

Avenir Alexandrovich Nizoff (a pianist who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a large, wide-ranging library of Russian works, especially covering art, émigré, literature and history).