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Dissident “Spring Cake”

by Inga Leonova

When people get into involved conversations about religious food customs, I almost always think of my great-aunt. During World War II, she was evacuated from Kyiv and spent the war in a godforsaken village in a Muslim area of the Caucasus Mountains…

Inga Leonova

A practicing architect, writer, and educator. She is the author of several publications on Orthodoxy and culture, including liturgical architecture and contemporary social issues. Her essay “The Quest for American Architecture: Modernism Meets Tradition” was included in the book Sacred Architecture in East and West edited by Cyril Hovorun (Marymount Institute Press, 2019).

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