Mount Athos and Russia: 1016-2016

Nicholas Fennell is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Senior Scholar. He taught at Winchester College for forty years before devoting himself to research into the Russian presence on Athos, and into Greek-Russian ecclesiastical relations. His publications, in Russian and English, include The Russians on Athos (2001) and Il¿insky skit na Afone (2011). Graham Speake is a writer and publisher with degrees in classics from Cambridge and Oxford. He is founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is author of Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edn. 2014), which won the 2002 Criticos Prize, and of A History of the Athonite Commonwealth: The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos (2018).