Bishop Feodor (Pozdeevsky) and “The Society of Seekers of Christian Enlightenment” according to the participants’ correspondence

The personality of the last rector of Moscow Theological Academy in the prerevolutionary period — bishop Feodor (Pozdeevsky), hierarch, theologian, teacher, administrator, opponent of the changes to come, and responsive to public mood — was ambiguously perceived by his contemporaries. The cooperation, established owing to «The Society of Seekers of Christian Enlightenment», between the prominent representatives of cultural elite and the «scholar monk», who headed the oldest theological school, is of interest in the light of the attempts of dialogue between clergy and intellectuals, typical for early 20th century. Kirill Yakovlevich