Two Solovyovs: uncle and nephew

The next year, his wife, who remained in Saratov, wrote that she had taken up with another man, a factor in this severance of his marriage being Sergey’s “enthusiasm” for a reunification of the churches. Accepting the message of his uncle, Sergey first became a Uniat and then after some considerable...

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Published in:Studies in East European thought Vol. 77; no. 6; pp. 1139 - 1150
Main Author: Nemeth, Thomas
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Nature B.V 01.12.2025
Subjects:
Catholic churches
Catholicism
Catholics
Christianity
Marriage
Mental health
Nerves
Poetry
Police
Questioning
Refusal
Religion
Religious orthodoxy
Russian literature
Severance pay
Theology
United States > US
Russia
ISSN:0925-9392, 1573-0948
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Summary:The next year, his wife, who remained in Saratov, wrote that she had taken up with another man, a factor in this severance of his marriage being Sergey’s “enthusiasm” for a reunification of the churches. Accepting the message of his uncle, Sergey first became a Uniat and then after some considerable vacillation in the early 1920s he converted to Catholicism.6 Quite possibly, he briefly rejoined Orthodoxy in 1922-1923 after personal relations with Catholic authorities soured coupled with his reluctance to fully accept papal infallibility, and further, the refusal of the Catholic Church to recognize ancient Russian saints. Sergey’s nerves and general medical condition were no match for the interrogation methods of the OGPU.10 Although, of course, we cannot be certain what transpired while in police custody, accounts corroborate that a police informant who enjoyed Sergey’s confidence played his expected part. Other sources have given the sentence as having different durations.11 In any case, Sergey’s mental health soon sharply deteriorated, and in October 1931 he was released from his sentence.
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ISSN:0925-9392
1573-0948
DOI:10.1007/s11212-024-09669-8