Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, mathematician, and polymath. Called the 'Russian Leonardo,' he unified theology, mathematics, art theory, and philosophy in a vision of concrete metaphysics. Executed by Stalin's regime in 1937.
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth offered an epistolary phenomenology of Orthodox Christian experience; his Iconostasis theorized the icon as a window to divine reality; his mathematics explored non-Euclidean and discontinuous worldviews.
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