OFFERED HERE is an elegant and unusual book from 1942, while Russia was under attack from Nazi Germany. Illustrated with dozens of portraits of Russian Orthodox luminaries. Beautifully bound in decorated and patterned cloth, 9x6 inches, 458 pages. There is a limitation statement at the rear, in Russian. If you speak and read Russian, please let us know the title of the book and answer the question, why was 1942 Russia producing a book like this, when Stalin was in the Kremlin and Communism ruled. When the Russian Orthodox church had been suppressed? If you know, let us know.