Bishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) and his Athonite correspondent Alexey Pavlovsky

The article deals with the brief but capacious epistolary of Vladyka Anthony (Khrapovitsky) and the essayist Alexei Alexeevich Pavlovsky, who lived on Mount Athos in those years. Preserved in the Russian Archives of the St Andrew’s Skete at Vatoped Monastery, the letters reveal details of the Vladyka’s participation in the dispute over the Name of God in 1913, as well as the hopes of the Russian Athonians to help them in their dramatic situation after the end of the First World War. The published letter of A. A. Pavlovsky to Vladyka is, in fact, a rare account of the events on Athos in 1914-1919.