Russian Orthodox Church in Persia-Iran (1597-2001)

The book of the candidate of theology of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the rector of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Tehran (Iran) hegumen Alexander (Zarkeshev) is the first complete monograph on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Persia-Iran. On the basis of the Russian archives and the reminiscences of the Russian parishioners of the Tehran parish, the author managed to recreate a complete picture of the presence of Russian Orthodoxy in Persian land from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 21st century.