“Lord has granted me true friends in the Crimea”. A letter of archbishop Dimitriy (Abashidze) to metropolitan Evlogiy (Georgievskiy)
Journal: St Tikhons University Review
Year: 2018

This letter of archbishop Dimitriy (Abashidze, later bishop Antoniy) sheds light on a little-known period of archpishop’s life, when in 1921 he, due to deteriorated health, decided to leave the diocese administration and with a blessing of Holy Patriarch Tikhon was discharged from the administration of Tauric diocese. Bishop Dimitriy had to be in charge of Tauric diocese in the most tragic period of its history. In 1920, the Crimea was taken by the Bolsheviks. Most archpriests emigrated together