Alexander Men

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Alexander Vladimirovich Men (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мень, romanized: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Men'; 22 January 1935 – 9 September 1990) was a Soviet Russian Orthodox priest, dissident, theologian, biblical scholar and writer on theology, the history of religion, the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and Orthodox worship.^[1]

Men wrote dozens of books (including his magnum opus, History of Religion: In Search of the Way, the Truth and the Life (1970 onwards), the seventh volume of which (entitled Son of Man, 1969) served as the introduction to Christianity for thousands of citizens of the Soviet Union); baptized hundreds; founded an Orthodox open university in 1990; and opened one of the first Sunday schools in the USSR as well as a charity group at the Russian Children's Hospital.^[2]

Alexander Men was murdered early on a Sunday morning, on 9 September 1990, by an axe-wielding assailant outside his home in Semkhoz [ru] in the Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of the Moscow Oblast of Russia. The circumstances of the murder remain unclear.^[3]