The Author: Nicholas Fennell graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in Modern and Mediaeval Languages, and gained a Ph.D. at Southampton University. He has been a guest lecturer at Yekaterinburg University on the European Community Tempus Scheme. He has also taught at the University of Toulouse, France, and in Yerevan State University, Soviet Armenia. For the last twenty-seven years he has been a schoolmaster, teaching literature and languages at Winchester College.

«Wer sich in das russische Athosmönchtum einlesen möchte, findet in der Arbeit von Fennell eine gut lesbare Zusammenfassung.» (Georg Seide, Orthodoxes Forum)«Fennell’s book...contains many pages of outstanding new research on the Holy Mountain, a subject which, as he illustrates all too clearly, is still largely obscure to the world at large.» (Michael Bourdeaux, Journal of Ecclesiastical History)«What characterises this book, an indispensable addition to Athonite literature, is a command of the subject with the ability to apprecitate the Russian and Greek points of view.» (William Barlow, The Catholic Herald)«‘The Russians on Athos’ is an excellent and indispensable contribution to the study of modern Athos.» (Hieromonk Gregory, Orthodox Tradition)«This new book represents a pioneering study in English of the role of the Russians in the life of Athos.» (Nikolai Lipatov, Friends of Mount Athos Annual Report)

• Contents: Greek-Russian relations in Europe – The Russians on Athos: pre 1841 and after – The Prophet Elijah Skete, its history from its foundation to the present day.