M. 2nd printing house of the Moscow Union of Consumer Societies, 1923. — 78 s. Alexander Vvedensky (August 30, 1889, Vitebsk July 25, 1946, Moscow) was one of the leaders of the renovation movement of the Orthodox Russian Church in 1922-1946. Permanent member of the Renovationist Holy Synod; Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy (opened in October 1923); since October 10, 1941, "first hierarch of the Orthodox Churches in the USSR" . Preacher and Christian Apologist . He called himself "Metropolitan-Apologet-Blessed" .. In the 1920s, he had a reputation as an unsurpassed speaker due to his speeches in public disputes with "anti-religious" (in 1929, such disputes were banned due to changes in Article 4 of the Constitution).