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Sergei Nikolaevich Durylin
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Sergei Nikolaevich Durylin was a philosopher, theologian, art historian, ethnographer, spiritual writer, and educator. Durylin was born into a merchant family in Moscow. He studied at the 4th Moscow Men's Gymnasium but did not graduate. He became involved with the revolutionary underground, and in 1906–1908 he was subjected to searches and arrests several times. He collaborated with the Posrednik publishing house, the illegal journal Svobodnoe Vospitanie ("Free Education") and the journal Vozrozhdenie (1905–1913). In 1920 Durylin was ordained as a priest, and a year later he became the rector of the Bogolyubskaya Church on Varvarka.
In subsequent years Durylin was repeatedly arrested and exiled. In 1923 he was sent into exile to the Southern Urals for his religious-philosophical views. In Chelyabinsk he actively participated in the work of the local museum and engaged in archaeological research. After returning to Moscow in 1933 he withdrew from the church and worked at the Gorky Institute of World Literature and at the Lunacharsky Institute of Theatrical Art. In 1944 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences. After the war Durylin became a professor and head of department at the State Institute of Theatrical Art named after A. V. Lunacharsky. Sergei Nikolaevich Durylin died on December 14, 1954, and was buried in the Danilov Cemetery in Moscow.
Date of birth
26 September 1886
Date of death
14 December 1954
Occupation
Educator