Education
Abrikosov graduated from the 5th Moscow Gymnasium and historical-philological faculty of Moscow University, and also studied at Oxford.
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Vladimir Abrikosov
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In 1910, Abrikosov returned to Russia. In his apartment in Moscow, they organized meetings of intellectuals, speaking to them on religious subjects and material support for poor Catholic children. Abrikosov"s apartment was at that time one of the main centers of distribution of Catholic ideas in Moscow.
In 1920–1922 in the Abrikosov"s house an interview occurred between representatives of the Catholic and Orthodox churches, which was attended by Moscow intellectuals.
Such activity was considered counterrevolutionary and on 17 August 1922, Vladimir Abrikosov was arrested and sentenced to death, but then the punishment was condemned to perpetual exile. On 29 September of the same year, Abrikosov was expelled from Russia for philosophers" ship with the 150 largest Russian intellectuals.
Abrikosov built contacts with various representatives of the Russian emigre community, organized in Romea Committee of Russian Catholics, kept the Holy See due to the persecution of Catholics in Soviet Russia. However, Abrikosov faced accusations of being a Russian spy by a Russian officer, Baron Igor von der Launitz, a strong opposition of Michel d"Herbigny who wanted Abrikosov"s resignation of his position inside the Roman Curia and conflicts with Jesuits.
After Launitz"s extradition from Italy, Abrikosov continued his work to abolish the Russian Exarchate when he left Rome to establish himself in Paris.
In the last years of his life away from the contacts with Russian immigrants, Abrikosov remained in solitude. He died on 22 July 1966.
Membership
In 1913, the couple taken novitiate of the Third Order of the Dominicans, in the same year, during a trip to Rome, they brought vows and became members of the Order, and they had an audience with Pope Pius X. In Russia Abrikosov practiced Latin rite, thinking back to the Byzantine when it received sufficient development in Russia. Soon after Abrikosov was recognized as an official member of the Congregation for Eastern Churches and procurator of the Russian Exarchate.
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