ARSENIEV,Nicholas S. (Nikolai Sergeevich), b. Stockholm, 1888 — University of Moscow, 1906–1910, Universities of Munich, Freiburg Br., Berlin, 1910–1912, D. Phil. University of Koenigsberg Pr., 1924. Professor of St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary, 1948–1974. Publications: Ostkirche und Mystik (1925, 2nd ed. 1943; English ed. 1927), We Beheld His Glory (1936, 1937), La Sainte Moscou (1948), Die geistigen Schicksale des russischen Volkes (1966), Is russkoi kuVtwrnoi traditsii (From Russian Cultural Tradition, 1959).

ASNAGHI, Adolfo, b. Milan, Italy, 1917 — Faculty of Theology of Milan (in Venegono Inf. — Varesa), 1940, Doctor's Degree, 1950. Teacher of history and philosophy at Collegio E. De–Amicis in Cantu (Como). Publications: Storia ed Escatologia del Pensiero Russo (1973), «I Cento Anni di Vladimir S. Soloviöf» (La Scuola Cattolica, 1953, № 4), UAwento dell'Anticristo («Povest ob Antichriste», of V. S. Solov'ev; 1951), «Le Origini del Cristianesimo nella Storiografia Sovietica» (La Scuola Cattolica, 1955, Ns 3; 1962, Na 3), «L'Esperienza di Dio nel Cristianesimo bizantinoslavo» («Servitium», 1974, № 2), and other articles.

BOHACHEVSKY–CHOMIAK, Martha, b. Sokal, Ukraine, 1938 — Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968. Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College. Publications: The Spring of a Nation: Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia in 1898 (1967); book reviews and articles; final stages of preparation of a book on metaphysical Idealist philosophers at the turn of the century and their involvement in politics.

FILIPOFF, Boris Andreevich, b. Stavropol, 1905 — Graduated Leningrad Oriental Institute, 1928. Adjunct Professor, The American University in Washington, D. C. Author of 21 books of poems, prose, and literary essays published outside of the USSR and two literary books within the USSR; several works on nonliterary subjects; a series of essays, articles, and commentaries in books published and edited by him and by him jointly with Professor Gleb Struve.

GRIGORIEFF,Fr. Dmitrii (Dmitrievich), b. Twickenham, England, 1919 — Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1958. Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Publications: «Dostoevskii i religiia» (Dostoevsky and Religion, VolnaiamysV, 1961), «Dostoevsky's Elder Zosima and the Real–Life Father Amvrosy» (St. Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly, 1967, Na 1), «Dostoevskii v russkoi tserkovnoi i religiozno–filosofskoi kritike» (Dostoevsky in Russian Church and Religious–philosophical Critisism, Vol “naia mysl”, 1968), «The Orthodox Church in America» (St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, 1970, Na 4), «Solzhenitsyn and His Philosophy of Love» (Languages and Linguistics Working Papers, Georgetown University Press, 1971, Na 2).

IVASK, George (Iurii Pavlovich), b. Moscow, 1910 — Ph. D., Harvard University. Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of four collections of Poetry in Russian and numerous articles in Russian, American, and other journals; edited the books of G. P. Fedotov, Novyi Grad (The New City), V. V. Rozanov, Izbrannoe (Selected works), K. N. Leont'ev (in English), and others.

JOHN (SHAHOVSKOY), Archbishop, b. Moscow, 1902 — Imperial Lyceem, St. Petersburg, 1915–1917; U. Louvain, Belgium, 1922–25; ordained monk deacon Russian Orthodox Church, 1926. Archbishop of San Francisco and Western United States of the Orthodox Church in America. Latest publications: Lysfia dreva (Pravoslavnaia pnevmatologna) (Leaves of the Tree (An Orthodox Pneumatology), 1963), Kniga svidetel'stv (A Book of Testimonies, 1965), Moskovskii rasgovor о bessmertii (A Moscow Discussion of Immortality, 1972); two books of poems (pen name Strannik): Uprazdnenie mesiatsa (Abolition of the Moon, 1968) and Izbrannaia lirika (Selected Lirical Poems, 1974).

KLINE,George L., b. Galesburg, Illinois, 1921 — Ph. D., Columbia University, 1950. Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mwr, Pa. Publications: translator of V. V. Zenkovsky, A History of Russian Philosophy (2 vols., 1953), editor of and contributor to European Philosophy Today (1965), co–editor of and contributor to Russian Philosophy (3 vols., 1965, 1969), author of Religious and Anti–Religious Thought in Russia (1968), «Hegel and Solovyov» in Hegel and the History of Philosophy (1974).

LEVITSKY,Dimitry Aleksandrovich, b. Czestochowa, Russia, 1907 — Mag. Iur., University of Latvia, Riga, 1935; Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969. Professor of Russian at the U. S. Government Language Training Facility in Washington, D. C. Author of Arkadii Averchenko: zhiznennyi put (Arkadii Averchenko: A Life, 1973).

LEVITZKY,Sergei Aleksandrovich, b. Libava, Latvia, 1909 — Ph. D., Charles University, Prague, 1941. Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Publications: Osnovy organicheskogo mirovozzreniia (Foundations of Organic Weltanschauung, 1948), Tragediia svobody (The Tragedy of Freedom, 1958), Ocherki po istorii russkoi filosofskoi i obshchestvennoi mysli (Essays on the History of Russian Philosophic and Social Thought, 1968), plus some 100 articles.

MARCADE,Jean–Claude, b. Mouscardes (Landes), France, 1937 — Agregation de russe. Attache de recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Publications: «La Revue Appollon en 1913» in UAnnie 1913 (1971), «Le starets Macaire, le starets Ambroise, Toriginalite du startchestvo russe» in EncuclopSdie des Mystiques (1972), «Les barbarismes etymologiques dans la prose de N. S. Leskov» in Theme Congres International des Slavistes ä Varsovie (1973), «Oeuvres de Georges Yakoulov et d'Ivan Koudriachov» (La Revue du Louvre, 1973, № 6), Preface a la traduction de K. Malevitch, De Cezanne au Suprematisme (1974).

NEBOLSINE,Arkadii Rostislavovich, b. Montreux, Switzerland, 1932 — Ph. D., Columbia University, 1971. Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Director of the Cultural Environment Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Publications: «Une vision tragique et heroi'que» (L'Herne: Soljenitsyne, 1970), «Poeziia poshlosti» (Poetry of Poshlost, Novyi zhurnal, 1970, № 101), «Simultaneity of Good and Evil; The Case of Lebedev» (Transactions of the Association of Russian–American Scholars in the U.S.A., 1971) «Poetica Weidle» (Novyi zhurnal, accepted for publication); contributed to Entretiens de Cerisy: Le Grand Siedle Russe (1970).

NIKON(Rklitzky), Archbishop, b. Borki in province of Chernigov, Russia, 1892 — Bachelor of Arts (Kandidat prav), University of St. Vladimir, Kiev, 1915. Archbishop of New York and Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Greek–Catholic Church Outside of Russia. Author and editor of Biography and Collected Works of the Blessed Metropolitan Anthony of Kiev and Galich, 10 vols. of Biography and 7 vols. of Collected Works (1956–1963).

PACHMUSS, Temira Andreevna, b. Skamja, Estonia — Ph. D., University of Washington, 1959. Professor of Russian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois. Publications: F. M. Dostoevsky: Dualism and Synthesis of the Human Soul (1963), Zinaida Hippius: An Intellectual Profile (1971), Zinaida Hippius: Collected Poetical Works, 2 vols. (1971), Intellect and Ideas in Action: Selected Correspondence of Zinaida Hippius (1972), Zinaida Hippius: Selected Works (1972).

PIROSCHKOW,Vera Aleksandrovna, b. Pskov, Russia, 1921 — Doctor's Degree, Munich University, 1951, and the degree of Doctor Habil., 1970. Professor of Political Science at Munich University. Publications: Alexander Herzen. Zusammenbruch einer Utopie (1961), «Der Mensch in 'der totalitären Diktatur» im Sammelband Grundfragen des Glaubens (1967), Freiheit und Notwendigkeit in der Geschichte. Zur Kritik des historischen Materialismus (1970).

PLETNEV,Rostislav Vladimirovich, b. St. Petersburg, 1903 — Ph. D., Universitas Carolina Pragensis (Prague, Bohemia), 1928. Professor at the University of Montreal (retired) and Visiting Professor at McGill University and Ottawa University. Publications: О lirike A. S. Pushkina (On A. S. Pushkin's Lyric Poetry, 1963), Entretiens sur la litterature Russe des 18e et 19e siecles (1964), О literature (On Literature, 1969), A. I. Solzhenitsyn (1973), Shesf besed о literature (Six Lectures on Literature, 1973).

POLTORATZKY,Nikolai Petrovich, b. Istanbul, 1921 — Studied in Bulgaria, Germany, and France; Doctor of the University of Paris (Sorbonne), 1954. Professor (and former Chairman, 1967–1974), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Author of Berdiaev i Rossiia (Filosofiia istorii Rossii u N. A. Berdiaeva) (Berdiaev and Russia N. A. Berdiaev's Philosophy of the History of Russia), 1967), I. A. Win i polemika vokrug ego idei о soprotivlenii zlu siloi (LA. Iljin and the Polemics Concerning His Ideas on Resistance to Evil by Force, 1975), and numerous articles; editor of, among others, Na tem/y russkie i obshchie (On Themes Russian and General, 1965), Russkaia Uteratura v emigratsii (Russian Emigre Literature, 1972), and the present volume.

ROVNER,Arkadii Borisovich, b. Odessa, 1940 — Graduated from Moscow University, Department of Philosophy, 1965. Currently teaching Russian at George Washington University (Summer Language School).

SCHMEMANN,Fr. Aleksandr, b. Talinn, Estonia — Ph. B., University of Paris, 1940; Doctor Scientiarum Ecclesiast., Institut de Theologie St. Serge, Paris, 1959; S.T.D., General Theological Seminary; D. D., Buller University; L.L.D., Iona College. Dean of St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York. Publications: Istoricheskii put pravoslaviia (The Historical Path of Orthodoxy, 1954), Vvedenie v liturgicheskoe bogoslovie (An Introduction to Liturgical Theology, 1960), Ultimate Questions (1965), Sacraments and Orthodoxy (1967), Great Lent (1972).

SHEIN,Louis J., b. Kiev, 1914 — Ph. D., University of Toronto; D. D., Knox College, University of Toronto. Professor of Russian Literature at McMaster University. Publications: Readings in Russian Philosophical Thought, vol. I (1968), vol. П (1973), vol. Ш (in press); «Pushkin's Political Weltanschauung», «Lev Shestov: Russian Existentialist», «A Re–Examination of Vladimir Solov'ev's Epistemology».

STAMMLER,Heinrich A., b. Germany, 1912 — studied at Universities Greifswald, Munich, and Prague; Ph. D., Munich, 1937. Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Slavic, Soviet, and East European Area Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Publications: Die russische geistliche Volksdichtung (1939), J. A. Boratynskij, Ausgewählte Gedichte (1948), Wassilij Rosanow, Ausgewählte Schriften (ed., transl., introduction, and notes, 1963), Vasilii Rosanov, Isbrannoe (ed. and introduction, 1970), Wladimir F. Odojewskij, Russische Nächte (ed., transl., introduction, and notes, 1970).

WEIDLЕ,Vladimir Vasil'evich, b. St. Petersburg, 1895 — Graduated St. Petersburg University, 1916; taught at St. Petersburg (1921–4), Professor at the Theological Institute in Paris (19321952). Author of numerous articles and of the following books: Les Abeüles d'Aristee (Essai sur le destin actuel des Lettres et des Arts; 1954), La Russie absente et presente (1949), Zadacha Rossii (Russia's Purpose, 1956), Bezymiannaia strana (Nameless Country, 1968), О poetakh i poezii (On Poets and Poetry, 1973).

WETTER,Gustav Andreas, b. Mödling, Austria, 1911 — Phil, and Theol., Pontificia Universitä Gregoriana, Roma, 1930–1936; Oriental Theology, Pont. Istituto per gli Studi Orientali, Roma, 1937–1941; Dr. phil., Dr. scientiarum eccles. orient. Professor for Russian and Marxist Philosophy, and Dir. of the Center for Marxist Studies at the Pont. Gregorian University, Roma. Publications: Der dialektische Materialismus. Seine Geschichte und sein System in der Sowjetunion (5 Aufl. 1960; English translation), Sowjet–Ideologie heute: I. Der dialektische und historische Materialismus (1974; English translation).

ZENKOVSKY,Serge A. (Sergei Aleksandrovich), b. Kiev, Russia, 1907 — Ph. D., Charles University, Prague, 1942. Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Publications: Russian Policies in Sinkiang, 1856–1941 (1942), Old Believer Avvakum and the Russian Literature (1954), Panturkism and Islam in Russia (1960, 1967; Turkish ed. 1971), Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles and Tales (1963, 2nd revised ed. 1974; German ed. 1968), Russia's Old Believers (Spiritual Movements of the 17th Century; 1970), and over 150 articles, notes, and book reviews in English, German, and Russian.

ZENKOVSKY,Fr. Vasilii (VasiPevich), b. Proskurov, Russia, 1881, d. Paris, 1962. Graduated Kiev University, taught at the universities of Kiev and Belgrade, Professor at the Theological Institute in Paris (1926–1962); ordained in 1942. Author of, among others: Russkie mysliteli i Evropa (Russian Thinkers and Europe, 1926; English ed. 1952), Istoriia russkoi filosofii (History of Russian Philosophy, vol. 1.1948, vol. 2,1950; English ed. 1953; French ed. 1953–55), Das Bild des Menschen in der östlichen Kirche (1953), О mnimom materializme russkoi nauki i filosofii (On the Imaginary Materialism of Russian Science and Philosophy, 1956), Osnovy Khristianskoi filosofii (Foundations of Christian Philosophy, vol. 1, 1961, vol. 2, 1964).

ZERNOV,Nikolai Mikhailovich, b. Moscow, 1898 — Graduate of Theological Faculty of Belgrade University, 1925; D. Phil., Oxford, 1932; M.A., Oxford, 1947; D.D., Oxford, 1966. Secretary of the Fellowship of St. Albans and St. Sergius, 1935–47; Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orhodox Culture, Oxford, 1947–1966. Publications: Eastern Christendom (1961; also Italian and Spanish eds.), The Russian Religious Renaissance of the XX Century (1963), Na Perelome (1912–1921): Zernov's Family Chronicle (1970), Za Rubezhom (1921–1972): Zernov's Family Chronicle (1973), Russian Еmigre Authors on Theology, Religious Philosophy, etc. (1973).