Prince Constantin Andronikof was a French diplomat, religious writer and translator. He was born in a notable Georgian aristocratic family of Andronikashvili in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. During the Russian Civil War in 1920, he, in the arms of his mother, fled to France, while his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and later shot during the Great Purge of 1937. Constantin Andronilof graduated from the University of Paris in 1940 and St.

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  • Prince Constantin Andronikof was a French diplomat, religious writer and translator. He was born in a notable Georgian aristocratic family of Andronikashvili in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. During the Russian Civil War in 1920, he, in the arms of his mother, fled to France, while his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and later shot during the Great Purge of 1937. Constantin Andronilof graduated from the University of Paris in 1940 and St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (of which he subsequently became professor) in 1944. He later worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as an English and Russian interpreter to President de Gaulle. Andronikof became best known as the most prolific French translator of Russian religious thought, especially of the theological works by Fr. Sergei Bulgakov. From 1991 to 1993, he served as a dean of St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris.
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  • Prince Constantin Andronikof was a French diplomat, religious writer and translator. He was born in a notable Georgian aristocratic family of Andronikashvili in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. During the Russian Civil War in 1920, he, in the arms of his mother, fled to France, while his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and later shot during the Great Purge of 1937. Constantin Andronilof graduated from the University of Paris in 1940 and St.
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  • Constantin Andronikof
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