Father Sergius Bulgakov and Yulia Nikolaevna Reitlinger: History of a Spiritual Romance
Journal: Russian Studies in Philosophy
Year: 2019

This article examines the personal and creative relationship between the theologian, philosopher, and priest Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov and the artist and icon painter Yulia Reitlinger (Sister Ioanna, after taking the veil). Beginning with their first acquaintance in Crimea in 1918 and until the death of Father Sergius in Paris in 1944, Reitlinger was spiritually close to Bulgakov; she was his spiritual daughter, and he considered her work one of the greatest achievements of modern religious ar