Английская Википедия:Boris de Zirkoff

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Шаблон:Infobox person Boris Mihailovich de Zirkoff (Шаблон:Lang-ru; Шаблон:OldStyleDate – 4 March 1981) was an American Theosophist, editor and writer.

Biography

Шаблон:External media Boris de Zirkoff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on March 7, 1902.Шаблон:Refn His father was Mihail Vassilyevich de Zirkoff, a Russian general.Шаблон:Sfn His mother was Lydia Dmitriyevna von Hahn, who was a second cousin to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.Шаблон:Refn

The Russian Revolution forced his family to flee in 1917 to Stockholm across Finland.Шаблон:Sfn Boris studied in some European universities, where he specialized in languages and classics.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn "At Baden-Baden in Germany, he met a Russian American, Nikolai Romanoff, and learned from him about the existence, at Point Loma, close San Diego in California, of the organization, named Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society. He wrote a letter to Mrs. Katherine Tingley, then head of the Society, and when she visited Europe, they met in Finland. Mrs. Tingley, who had learned that Boris was Blavatsky's relative, invited him to come to the headquarters at Point Loma and promised him all the necessary help in regard to his travel to America."Шаблон:Sfn He performed this journey towards the end of 1923.Шаблон:Sfn

Blavatsky's Collected Writings

In 1924, while residing at the Headquarters of the Point Loma Theosophical Society, Boris resolved to compile Blavatsky's writings. This plan led to a worldwide correspondence and over 50 years of research.Шаблон:Sfn The first four volumes were published between 1933 and 1936 by "Rider & Co." as The Complete Works of H. P. Blavatsky, however, this edition forms were destroyed during World War II.Шаблон:Sfn These volumes were recovered only in 1966–69. Between 1950 and 1981, Boris managed to publish the first 12 volumes of Blavatsky's Collected Writings.Шаблон:Sfn "From his manuscripts for Volumes XIII and XIV the remaining numbered series were completed in 1982 and 1985. And a Cumulative Index Volume XV was then published in 1991."Шаблон:Sfn

From 1944 to 1981, De Zirkoff edited in Los Angeles a magazine Theosophia.Шаблон:Sfn According to WorldCat, Boris had written 49 works.Шаблон:Refn In 1980, he was awarded the Subba Row Medal.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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