Konstantinov, Dmitry Vasilievich

Education

In 1927 he graduated from the Ushinsky Pedagogical College in Leningrad , higher courses in library science, studied for two years in the correspondence department of the History Department of Leningrad State University . In 1930 he graduated from the Publishing Institute . In 1933 he graduated from the graduate school of the Leningrad Scientific Research Institute (NII) of book science ; The theme of the Ph.D. thesis : "Technical planning in the printing industry." He prepared a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Publishing and Printing Activities of Peter the Great ", which he did not defend because of the outbreak of World War II .

Book scholar

He worked in the Public Library, in the library of the Scientific Research Institute of Book Studies, and was a senior research fellow at this scientific research institute. He taught at the higher courses of library science and book technical school, was an editor at the State Publishing House of Light Industry, a consultant at several publishing houses. He is the author of a number of scientific works in the field of book science, including The Design of the Soviet Book ( M. - L. , 1939 , co-authored by G. G. Guillot) and The Printing Design of the Book. His first work, The Typology of a Book, was not allowed. for release at the request of the party organization of the institute (the set already made was scattered). He published articles in the journal "Printing Production". In the abstract of the dissertation of M. G. Guchninsky, “The Formation and Development of General Issues of the Theory of Russian Book Science” (St. Petersburg, 2000) it says:

The typology of the book was given great importance precisely in the system of the hyperfunctional theory of the book, that is, the selectivity of the influence of types of books on different segments of the population. In the second half of the 30s, primarily the works of D. V. Konstantinov, a typology was created in its main features as part of a general theory.

Along with his studies, in 1924 - 1929 he was a reader in the Vvedensky church in Zayachy Lane. In the 1930s, he was a parishioner of the Catacomb community. He later recalled:

We were going to illegal worship in private homes outside the city. Priests also served, who no longer had parishes. Services were held mostly at night with a small number of participants. They dispersed gradually in the morning, mingling with numerous people in a hurry to work. ^[3]

Red Army Officer during World War II

At the beginning of World War II he was drafted into the army, graduated from the crash course of command schools, was promoted to lieutenant and appointed platoon commander on the Leningrad Front .

At the beginning of 1942 he was shell-shocked , was treated in hospitals, then served as senior lieutenant as chief of staff of the training battalion in Tyumen . Since the fall of 1943 - the chief of staff of the battalion at the front, participated in battles in the Nevel region.

After a failed attack ^{[ specify ]} , accompanied by heavy losses, the 165th Infantry Division, which included its battalion ^[4] , was withdrawn to the rear, replenished with personnel and transferred to Ukraine under Kovel .

On April 27, 1944, Dmitry Konstantinov was surrounded and then captured ^[5] under the Koshary station in the Kovelsky district of the Volyn region .

In Germany

In captivity he entered the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) of General A. A. Vlasov , graduated from the school of propaganda of the ROA in Dabendorf , where he led the publishing house and printing house . On November 19, 1944, he was ordained deacon by Metropolitan Anastasius (Gribanovsky) in the Orthodox Cathedral in Berlin ^[6] during the Divine Liturgy, after which a prayer service was held to coincide with the creation of the Vlasov Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia . November 20, 1944 was ordained to the priest by Metropolitan Seraphim (Lyade) . He was a military priest of the ROA, in 1944-1945 - rector of the mobile camp church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, who was first in Dabendorf, and then in Carlsbad . In the spring of 1945 he moved to Marienbad , and then moved to the American zone of occupation of Germany .

In 1946, he was arrested as a “Vlasovist” by the American occupation authorities in the city of Bayreuth , spent six months in prison, but escaped extradition to the USSR .

In September 1946 he was released, moved to Regensburg , where he led the church and literary departments in the newspaper Echo, published by the National Labor Union of Russian Solidarists , and served in local churches (including in the church in the camp for displaced persons ).

In Argentina

In 1949 he arrived in Argentina , where he served as an assistant rector of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Buenos Aires , and in 1955 - 1960 - rector of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the same city. Since 1955 - archpriest. He was an active opponent of the movement for the voluntary return of emigrants to the USSR . It was published in the newspaper of Ivan Solonevich " Our Country ". ^[7] In July 1949, he founded the newspaper Slovo, which since 1950 was published under the name New Word. In the first issue of the Word, the publication was characterized by:

The anti-communist newspaper, which sets as its main task the fight against communism , with all its obvious and secret manifestations that we are now confronted with in the most diverse areas of social life ... Slovo is a non-partisan organ, an organ of independent national thought, striving primarily to unite all emigration , and not to share it.

Dmitry Konstantinov edited this newspaper with the active participation of his wife until his departure from Argentina in 1960.

Life in the USA

Since 1960 he lived in the United States, where he was in the clergy of the North American Russian Metropolis (since 1970 - the Orthodox Church in America ).

In 1960-1961 - Assistant Rector of the Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco .

In 1961-1964 - rector of the church in the city of Syracuse , where he simultaneously taught Russian language courses for the US Air Force at the University of Syracuse .

In 1964-1968 - rector of the church in the city of Maynard near Boston .

In 1968-1972 - rector of the Annunciation Church in Boston.

In 1972-1980 - rector of the church in the village of West Hannisport in Massachusetts .

Since 1980, he was out of state by age.

Collaborated with the Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR in Munich ^[1] . He spoke with religious conversations on the Voice of America radio station.

In 1964-1993 he was the leader of the column “On the religious front” (since 1977 - “On religious topics”) in the newspaper “ New Russian Word ”. In 1964-1967 , articles in this series were also published in the Russian Thought newspaper ( Paris ).

Author of a number of books and articles, mainly devoted to the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century. The main work - “The Hounding Church” ( 1967 ) - became the subject of positive reviews in the emigrant press and sharply negative reviews in Soviet publications. Thus, the Russian Word newspaper (Buenos Aires, No. 394) noted that the book “successfully combined the knowledge of an educated priest, the conscientiousness of an observant historian, and the skill of an experienced publicist on church matters.” The Soviet journal Science and Religion (No. 7, 1970 ) devoted a special article to his father Dmitry and his book entitled A Man Without a Homeland, Conscience, and Honor. According to the rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco, Priest Victor Sokolov:

Future historians will undoubtedly appreciate the heroic work carried out in very difficult conditions by emigrant scholars and publicists. An outstanding place among them was and continues to be actively occupied by the tireless, close gaze of the observer and researcher, the corrosive reader and gatherer, an entire research institute, the whole staff of which consists of one person - Archpriest Dimitriy Vasilyevich Konstantinov ^[1] .

In 1973 - 1986 he was the author of editorial articles in The New Russian Word (in total he wrote 1993 "editorials"). In 1980-1994 he was published in the journal Voice of Abroad, the author of articles in Notes of the Russian Academic Group in the United States.

The memoirist, the main book of memoirs - Through the Tunnel of the 20th Century - was published in Moscow in 1997 .

• Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR. 1944 (?) (Under the pseudonym D. Dolinsky).
• I fought in the red army. Buenos Aires, 1952. 136 s (Spanish, English (1955) translations).
• Orthodox youth in the struggle for the church in the USSR. Munich, 1956.
• Church policy of the Moscow Patriarchate // Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR: Collection. Munich, 1962.
• Religious Persecution in the USSR. - London (Ontario (Canada)), 1965.
• Religious resistance movement in the USSR: On the 50th anniversary of the Soviet dictatorship. London (Canada), 1967.
• Gonyshaya Church: Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR. New York, 1967. (2nd edition - The Hounding Church // Materials on the History of Russian Political Emigration Issue VI. M. , 1999. (German (1973) and English (The Crown of Thorns: Russian Orthodox Church: 1917— 1967. - London (Ontario (Canada)) translations).
• Small conversations. New York, 1971. (2nd edition - London (Canada), 1985.140 s (pocket format)).
• Zarnitsy spiritual revival: the Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR in the late 60s and early 70s. London (Canada), 1973. (2nd edition - London (Canada), 1974. 165 pp.) (English translation - Stations of the Cross: The Russian Orthodox Church: 1970-1980. London (Ontario (Canada)), 1984).
• Notes of a military priest. SPb., 1994.
• Through the Tunnel of the 20th Century // Materials on the History of Russian Political Emigration Vol. III. M., 1997.

• Father - Vasily Andreyevich Konstantinov, landowner, reserve captain, during World War I returned to active duty, a participant in the civil war on the side of the whites. In 1920 he emigrated, lived in Bulgaria .
• Mother - Klavdia Tikhonovna, daughter of a railway employee.
• Brother - Vasily, a participant in the civil war on the side of the whites, being surrounded, committed suicide.
• Sister - Maria.
• The first wife - Anna (Inna) Ivanovna Karavaeva, during the war years lived in the city of Leningrad, Dumskaya Street. d. 5, apt. 36 ^{[5] [8]}
• The second wife is Anna Nikolaevna, nee Paramonova ( 1914 - 1992 ), from a family of Russian emigrants in Germany . She graduated from the University of Syracuse in the USA .
• Daughter - Ksenia Tolmacheva, nee Konstantinova, from Nina Terentyevna Konstantinova (nee Kleeva) (01/25/1905-2002)

There are also grandchildren, granddaughters and great-grandchildren living in St. Petersburg, Sochi and Krasnodar.

• Niviere, Antoine. Orthodox clergy, theologians and church leaders of the Russian emigration in Western and Central Europe. 1920-1995: A Biographical Reference. M. - Paris, 2007.P. 271-272.

• Biography
• Guchninsky M. G. Formation and development of general issues in the theory of Russian book science
• On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of pastoral and church-writing activity prot. Dm Konstantinova