Dmitry Grigorieff

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Washington D.C.[1] Grigorieff was also an academic scholar and was a retired Professor of Russian language and literature at Georgetown University.[1]

Early life

Dmitry Grigorieff was born in

Russian Revolution.[1] They first fled to Riga, Latvia, and then to London, where Grigorieff was born.[1]

The Grigorieffs moved to Japan in the early 1920s.[1] Dmitry Grigorieff was baptized at St. Nicholas Church in Tokyo.[1] The family returned to Riga after the end of the Russian Civil War where Grigorieff began studying at the Orthodox Theological Institute.[1]

Dmitry Grigorieff, who was a British citizen, left Riga and moved to Australia during World War II.[1] He served in the British Merchant Marines in the Pacific from 1943 to 1944.[1] He moved to New York City in 1945, where he worked in the British Office of War Information.[1]

Grigorieff earned a

St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York City.[1]

Academic career

Grigorieff, who was a Fyodor Dostoevsky scholar, taught Russian language and literature at Georgetown University from 1959 until 1989.[1] Additionally, he also taught at the Army Language School in Monterey, California, as a Russian language professor and at Columbia University in Manhattan.[1]

Priesthood

Grigorieff was formally ordained a

dean in 1986.[1] Grigorieff was given the title of dean emeritus in 1998.[1]

He continued to publish books, in both English and Russian, on the topics of linguistics and religion. His most recent work was "Dostoevsky and the Church," which was published in 2002 in Moscow.[1]

Grigorieff was awarded the

Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow.[1] This marked the first time that the order had been awarded to a priest in the United States.[1]

Death

Father Dmitry Grigorieff died of cardiac arrest on December 8, 2007, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington D.C. at the age of 89.[1] His wife, Galina Grigorieff, had died in 1998.[1] Father Grigorieff was a resident of Bethesda, Maryland.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Holley, Joe (2007-12-14). "Dmitry Grigorieff, Scholar And Orthodox Priest". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-01-26.

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