Orthodoxy in China - Paperback

by Eric S. Peterson (Author), Olga V. Trubetskoy (Translator), Victor Selivanovsky (Author)

This is a story of the Orthodox Church in China that started in the year 1685, when Chinese imperial troops captured Fort Albazin, a Russian Far East outpost on the Amur River. The story of the captured Russian warriors marks the beginning of the Orthodox Spiritual Mission in China and continues with a modern history of the Chinese Orthodox Church describing feats of faith made by the Chinese martyrs and the forefathers of modern believers.