The state power and the Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR in the reflection of personal history (by case study of social and church activities of metropolitan Guriy Egorov)

The article is devoted to the personal history of metropolitan Guriy in the context of church-state relations in the USSR. The author concludes that personal texts reveal soberness of thought and realism, a clear assessment of the era in which Guriy Egorov lived and acted. A personal biography of the metropolitan combines general and special, unique and typical. It helps to delve deeply into the psychology of relations between the Soviet state and the Russian Orthodox Church.