Tainy Zagrobnoi Zhizni. K Voprosu o Pominovenii Usopshikh

Copenhagen: Russkaia Tserkovnaia Tipografiia Prep. Iova Pochaevskago , 1934.. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 60; light green illustrated wraps; chip with a small loss of paper to tips of spine; mild darkening along margins; light uniform age-toning to pages; frontis and vignettes at beginning of chapters; very good.Archpriest Leonid Ivanovich Kolchev was born in 1871. In 1905 he was appointed member of the Court Clergy at the Imperial Estate Oreanda in the Crimea. Persecuted and forced to emigrate after the Revolution, Leonid and his young family settled in Constantinople where he was a member of the Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1924, Maria Feodorovna - Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Empress Consort of Russia, spouse of Emperor Alexander III, and mother of Nicholas II - arranged for the Kolchev family to move to Denmark where - for the remainder of his life - Leonid Ivanovich was the head of the Orthodox Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Copenhagen. He wrote several articles, sermons, and books but none was as popular and, in fact still reprinted today in several languages including English, as his current "Mysteries of Life after Death" in which he offers his explanation to the question of what happens to the soul after death and how one can prepare oneself for that time. OCLC lists 3 copies in institutions with none other in the trade.