In her fascinating autobiography, Sophie Koulomzin, long honored as a pioneer in Orthodox religious education in America, tells of the many worlds in which she has lived and worked: a childhood on family estates in Old Russia; the hardships of revolutionary Moscow; life in the Russian emigration in Western Europe and as a foreign student in America; the challenge of combining marriage and a family with service in the Church; making a new life in America after World War II; and returning to Russia, this time as a tourist. She shares with us the experiences--and the wisdom--of a lifetime. In doing so, she gives us in microcosm the history of a fascinating generation.
