Light before dusk; a Russian Catholic in France, 1923-1941 by Hélène Iswolsky

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She became a fervent promoter of ecumenical dialogue, participating in the French Catholic Action as well as in the meetings of her Orthodox compatriots and publishing an intconfessional journal, “The Third Hour.” Iswolsky took advantage of her emigre position in-between, fighting against the prejudices between Orthodoxy and Catholicism and between Russia and the West in general. Raised Russian Orthodox, Iswolsky entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1923. She was thus connected to the Russian elite as well as to Parisian high society. Living in Paris from 1931, then in New York from 1940, she cultivated the acquaintances of her father, the tsar’s last ambassador to France. The Revolution of 1917 radically changed the career of Helene Iswolsky (1896–1975), from Russian aristocrat to emigre writer. Post-Revolutionary movement The Third Hour Iswolsky ecumenism Russian Catholics Russian émigré

Light before dusk; a Russian Catholic in France, 1923-1941 by Hélène Iswolsky