Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series: Rebecca Mitchell, History
‘Woe to Those Who Fail to Reckon with History’: The Brothers Karbelashvili and the Fate of Empire in the South Causasus, 1860-2024
In 1924, Fr. Vasili Karbelashvili penned a passionate letter to his former student, Joseph Stalin. His desperate bid to stave off Bolshevik violence failed: his family fell victim to Stalinist repression. Yet by 2011, Vasili and his four brothers were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
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