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see also human rights; individual names

Divnich, Yevgeny 181

Dmitry, Father (Dmitry Dudko) 9–10, 141, 252–3

birth/childhood 9, 14–15, 21–4, 33

arrest (I)/imprisonment in Inta 43, 44, 45–7, 48, 53–8, 62, 64–6, 141; release 72, 83

arrest (II) by KGB/interrogation at Lubyanka 133–4, 136, 140–41, 219; imprisonment in Lefortovo 134, 136, 141, 172, 181; appeals for his release 134–5, 180; his recantation 173–8, 179–80, 202, 219; his Izvestia article on 174–6; letter of apology to Patriarch Pimen 177; as propaganda 176, 177; release 177, 182; move to Baydino see in Baydino below; see also KGB and below

in Baydino 182, 188, 189–90, 192–6

character 9, 23, 40, 42, 53, 55, 87, 108, 120, 122, 178, 180, 182–4, 198, 252

at Cherkizovo church (post-recantation) 206

as a dissident/nationalist 42, 43, 45–7, 83–4, 87–91, 101–2, 124–9, 131–3, 134, 217–25

on drinking/alcoholism 84, 85, 86, 88, 197–8, 215, 253–5

family 14, 21, 22–4, 32–4, 40, 42, 57, 98, 106, 111, 179, 180; see also individual family members

Grebnevo, exile in 104–6, 111, 113, 115–16, 120–22, 125, 128, 133–4, 204

In the Light of the Transfiguration (self-published newsletter) 121–2, 124–9, 132–3, 218; post-recantation 182–7, 192

influence see reputation/influence

Jews, attitude to 88–9, 91, 96–7, 129, 132, 133, 135, 219; as anti-Semitic (post-recantation) 194, 195–7, 200–201, 207, 208, 210–11, 219

Kabanovo, exile in 92, 96–8, 109–10; dismissal from his church 100–102

KGB and 108, 109, 111, 130–34, 217–25; post-recantation 185, 196–7, 208–9, 217; see also arrest (II) above and politicization of below

in Moscow 72; at St Nicholas Church 83, 84–91, 101; exiled from, by church authorities (1974) 90–91, 109; see also Grebnevo and Kabanovo above

official criticism of 90–91, 101, 103, 114–15, 122–6

Alexander Ogorodinikov and 83–4, 85, 91, 105, 128, 133–5, 225

papers/publications 9, 87–8, 122, 175, 182, 198–9; journalism 208, 209, 210; memoirs 31–2, 36, 46, 64; notebooks 85, 102; poetry 42, 46–7, 64–5, 114, 122, 141; see also In the Light of… above

as a priest 32, 36, 46, 86, 89–90, 96–9, 100–102, 103, 109, 110, 120, 126–7, 135, 171, 176, 194, 195, 198–200, his discussion sessions 83–4, 85, 87–80, 120, 194, 199, 205, 206; training at Zagorsk 37, 38–41; see also religious beliefs below

his recantation see arrest (II) above

religious belief 21, 23, 32, 33, 40, 55, 86–7, 96–7, 105, 115, 182–7, 193–6; see also as a priest above

reputation/influence 9, 11, 84–5, 88–91, 97, 101–2, 105, 108, 109, 127–8, 132–3; post-recantation 179–200, 202, 205–6, 217–25, 251–5; in the West 87–8; see also Western media… below

Russian Orthodox Church’s action against 90–91, 98, 100–102, 109, 198, 206; see also Grebnevo and Kabanovo above

Vladimir Sedov and 104–11, 116, 119–20, 133, 134, 251, 252; on his arrest/recantation 116, 119, 126, 173, 178

Alexander Semyonov and 251, 252; on his arrest/recantation 180–81, 202

The Times , letter to (1980) 135

at Vinogradovo church (post-recantation) 198, 202–4, 206

Western media reports on 100–101, 102, 110, 114, 115, 134–5, 136, 174, 179

in World War II 28, 31; as a soldier 31–2

Gleb Yakunin and 218–19, 224–5

death/burial 9, 251–2

drinking/alcoholism 1–5, 6, 10, 26, 47, 92–6, 127, 163–7, 207

alcohol duty 92–3, 95, 207

beer 92, 86

cost of, to the state 95

as a disease 5, 7, 88, 93, 95, 215–16

Father Dmitry on 84, 85, 86, 88, 197–8, 215, 253–5

effects of 93, 215–16

expenditure on 92, 93

Gorbachev’s anti-alcohol policies 206–7, 216

illegal alcohol 4–5

vodka 2, 3–4, 7, 92, 95

volume consumed 4, 5, 7, 167, 216; reductions in 206–7, 246

by women 2, 4–5, 167, 216

drugs 170

KGB use of 119, 127

Dudko, Dmitry see Dmitry, Father

Dudko, Maria (daughter of Vladimir Dudko) 32–3

Dudko, Mikhail (son of Father Dmitry) 179, 184–5, 186, 225

as a priest 251

Dudko, Natalya (daughter of Father Dmitry) 184–5

Dudko, Nina (wife of Father Dmitry) 111, 134, 177, 179, 184–5, 195

death 206

Dudko, Vladimir (brother of Father Dmitry) 32–4, 42

Dzerzhinsky, Felix 137–8

East Germany 112

see also Germany

economic conditions 6, 21–2, 33, 37, 95, 210, 215

inflation 209

in northern Russia 49

education 33, 56, 76, 77

literacy levels 77

in Russian history 239–40

university (tertiary) 79, 80; VGIK film school 80–81

English language 168–9

Ephraim, Archimandrite (Greek Orthodox Church) 235–6

Estonia 246

ethnic tensions 96–7, 129, 131, 132

see also Jews

European Union (E U), membership of 246

Evangelical church 130–31

see also religion

famine 17, 22, 24, 25–6, 27–8, 38, 50

see also starvation

Fedotov, Georgy 116, 119, 124, 225

Figes, Orlando 42

Filaret, Metropolitan (KGB codename ANTONOV) 222

film see cinema/film

fishing 162, 163, 164

Fonchenkov, Vasily (KGB codename FRIEND) 125, 126

food prices 33, 38

food supplies see agriculture; famine

For Human Rights (Russian pressure group) 217–18

FSB (security service) 239

see also KGB

Gagarin, Yuri 6, 76

Galya (women in Berezino) 14–15, 17–21

gambling 238

genetics 60, 118

German occupation of Russia (1941–5) 15, 51, 114, 122, 123

Jews, execution of 29–30

peasant class during 28–31

propaganda distribution 30, 122, 123–4

see also World War II

Germangenovich Shpinkov, Vasily 24–31

Germany 4, 5, 24, 66, 94

see also East Germany; West Germany

Ginzburg, Alexander 130, 171

Gorbachev, Mikhail 7, 75, 93–4, 206, 216

anti-alcohol policies 206–7, 216

Gorbanevskaya, Natalya 73, 171–2

Grebnevo (village), Father Dmitry in exile in 104–6, 111, 113, 115–16, 120–22, 125, 128, 133–4, 204

Greece, Mount Athos 235

Grigorenko, General Pyotr, KGB psychiatric assessment/treatment of 117

Grigorenko, Zinaida (wife of Pyotr Grigorenko) 117

gulag (labour) camps 9, 26, 42, 49, 51–2, 62–3, 66, 67, 71, 145, 152, 171

administration 49, 50

closure of, under Khrushchev 74

criminals in 54, 65

deaths in see numbers of prisoners below

Father Dmitry as prisoner in see Inta gulag camp

as economically self-supporting 49–50, 242

graveyards at 66, 67, 69–70, 161, 164, 165

hospitals in 59, 60, 64, 67–8

hunger strikes 242–3

informers in 54, 65

living conditions 49, 50, 54, 55, 58, 59–61, 62–3, 152–3, 154, 159–62, 241–2, 247–8; starvation 49, 152

numbers of prisoners 42, 49, 57; deaths among 50–51, 58, 152, 154, 160, 161, 209

political prisoners 42, 54, 240–44

prison guards 244, 247–8

religion in 56, 242, 243

Alexander Solzhenitsyn on 50, 51, 75

women prisoners 160–61

young people in 152

see also individual camps

healthcare 100, 246

Helsinki Agreement (1975) 112–13

Helsinki Groups (of dissidents) 112–13, 125–6, 130, 131, 135, 139

Hitler, Adolf 59, 208

Holy Fools (Yurodivie) , in Russian history 234