Georgy Petrovich Fedotov (Russian: Гео́ргий Петро́вич Федо́тов, October 1 (13) 1886, Saratov, Russian Empire, – September 1, 1951, New York, US) was a Russian religious philosopher, historian, essayist, author of many books on Orthodox culture, regarded by some as a founder of Russian "theological culturology".[1] Fedotov left Soviet Russia under duress[2] for France in 1925, then in 1939 emigrated to the United States where he taught at St. Vladimir Orthodox Seminary, New York, and continued publishing books up until his death in 1951.[3]
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Born | Georgy Petrovich Fedotov (1886-10-01)October 1, 1886 Saratov, Russian Empire |
Died | September 1, 1951(1951-09-01) (aged 64) New York City, United States |
Occupation | historian, religious philosopher, theologist |
Nationality | Russian |
Genre | religious philosophy |
He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1946–1947.[4]
For Fedotov, as for most Russian thinkers who were forced to leave their homeland after the revolutionary events of 1917
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