This book is in Russian language.

"Sviataia Russ" ['Holy Russ'], by N.D. Talberg, first edition published by Doloy Zlo publishing company of His Highness Prince Michel Gorchakov, Paris, 1929.

The book is about Russian Christianity, the Christian way of life and traditions from the beginning of Christian Russ to new martyrs of the early twentieth century. The book consists of two parts. The first part is a historical overview of Christianity in Russia. The second part is about Russian spirituality, Russian saints; Christian values, fools for Christ; social Christianity, Clerics, Breaking of Christian tradition in the 18th-19th Centuries, the end of Holy Russ. In the last chapter, the author explains the Christian death of Nickolas II and Empress Alexandra, Princess Elisabeth Feodorovna, the spirituality of Royal Princesses, cites the poem by Princess Anastasia, describes the martyr-death of dozens of bishops and other clerics tortured and killed in 1918-1920s.

Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg, [1886-1967], was born in Korostyshev, Russia, on July 10, 1886. His family, of Swedish origin, moved to Russia from Finland during the reign of Catherine the Great. Both his father and grandfather were affiliated with the Kiev University. Talberg studied at the Imperatorskoe uchilishche pravovedeniia, graduating with a gold medal in 1907. For the next ten years he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, Talberg moved to the Caucasus but returned to Petersburg the same year and joined a secret monarchist organization headed by N. E. Markov. In 1919, Talberg left Russia, arriving in Berlin in 1920, where he continued to be affiliated and actively involved in Markov's monarchist organization, the Vysshii Monarkhicheskii Sovet.

With his move to Belgrade, Talberg also became more involved with the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, eventually moving to the United States, where he accepted a teaching position at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York. Talberg authored several history textbooks, some still in use today at theological seminaries. He also published widely on Russian secular and church history.

Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg died on May 29, 1967, in Jordanville, New York.

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Soft cover, 5.1/2" x 7.1/2"; 143 pages,pen-written name on the title page [see scan]; some spine wear, very good binding and condition. [nvgb34]