Alexander Vvedensky (religious leader)

Not to be confused with the Russian poet of the same name, Alexander Vvedensky.
A photograph of Vvedensky, taken sometime in the 1930s.

Alexander or Alexandr Ivanovich Vvedensky (Russian: Александр Иванович Введенский; August 30, 1889 – July 26, 1946) was one of the leaders and ideologues of the Renovationism, a reform movement inside the Russian Orthodox Church during the Soviet Union. He is considered the person "most identified with renovationism in the Soviet era".[1]

  1. ^ Roslof (2002), p. 9.