Career
From 1935 he studied at Russicum. Ordained priest in 1940, Obolensky was sent to Paris, where he taught at Saint George Boarding in Meudon. Obolensky taught courses on the history of Russian literature and philosophy in Rome, Meudon and Bergamo.
He worked as an expert on the Soviet Union in North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was also author of books on the Soviet economy, translated the correspondence of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and the memoirs of Georgy Zhukov and was engaged in the Soviet dissident literature.
