Board member of RBR Books Inc., a US-based non-profit for translating Russian religious texts. Heads a development project known as ALyCE, focusing on creating navigation tools for working with archival information.
August 3, 2026, marks the fifth anniversary of the repose of Father Leonid Kishkovsky. His son-in-law, Nicholas Sluchevsky (Kolya), met Father Leonid as a young priest in San Francisco in 1970 at a time of profound change. Father Leonid’s daughter, Sophia Kishkovsky (Sonia), who worked as a journalist in Moscow from 1991 to 2020, observed her father’s interaction with the Russian Orthodox Church as it rebuilt after the Soviet rule…
Everyone has their favorite foods. They form our physical and spiritual culture. If you are Norwegian, Italian, Russian, Korean, Greek, Senegalese, Ukrainian, or Brazilian, you have a favorite food from your place of origin…
A few years ago, Vladimir Morosan composed an unusual piece of music based on the pentatonic scale, a version of the Paschal Troparion in what might be called an “Appalachian” style. A simple enough story—but as always, there is a backstory.
