ABSTRACT
The vast population shifts that occurred in Europe in the first half of the last century and continued in smaller waves of migration up to the present day resulted in sprawling, interconnected and sometimes mutually hostile diasporas the world over. Perhaps, none of these shifts was so cumulatively expansive and complex as the series of migrations from Russia following the Revolution, the Soviet and Allied victory in World War II and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and then the Soviet Union. Differences of opinion arose within the diaspora Church as to how to deal with its new predicament. Those exiled intellectuals who had returned to the Church under the influence of the Slavophile movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were often at odds with more conservative strands within the Church. Related to the composer Alexander Scriabin on his mother's side, Metropolitan Anthony was born into the Russian intelligentsia in 1914.
