1. Anna Abrikosova became the foundress of a Byzantine Catholic sisters' community of the Third Order of St Dominic, who all vowed in August 1917, similarly to the Discalced Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, to offer themselves up as a sacrifice to the Holy Trinity for the Salvation of the Russian people.
Since 2002, Anna Abrikosova's life has been under scrutiny for possible beatification by the Holy See, which considers her a martyr under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin's religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Russia and, in particular, as a martyr for the cause of Catholic schools and Classical Christian education.
Anna Abrikosova is one of the seven Soviet-era Martyrs and Confessors whom historian Fr.
Anna Abrikosova's brothers included senior Russian Foreign Office diplomat Dmitri Ivanovich Abrikosov and Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, the doctor who embalmed Vladimir Lenin and later served as the personal physician to Joseph Stalin.
Anna Abrikosova's cousin and adopted brother Khrisanf Abrikosov was a close friend of novelist Leo Tolstoy and a senior member of the latter's religious movement.
Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova was born on 23 January 1882 in Kitaigorod, Moscow, Russian Empire.
Anna Abrikosova never regretted what might have been, and was always reconciled with the facts of life.
Anna Abrikosova was a wonderfully nice and exceptionally refined person, never angry and equally kind to everybody; to her relatives and friends, the ten children and the numerous nurses, housekeepers, governesses, and other servants rich Russian families in days past.
Anna Abrikosova then entered a teacher's college, where the all-female and Far Left student body ostracized and emotionally bullied her for being from a wealthy family.
Anna Abrikosova both knew and cared very deeply about the peasant families who lived on her family's estate at Tarasovka.
Anna Abrikosova befriended Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard, the daughter of the 9th Earl and "Radical Countess" of Carlisle, and grandmother of the present Baron Henley.
At the urging of her fellow students, Anna Abrikosova formed a famine relief fund to set up a soup kitchen at Tarasovka and, to help raising money, imported embroidered Russian peasant women's scarves.
Anna Abrikosova then called upon the Procurator in Moscow and, with the help of an aristocratic admirer codenamed "Prince So and So", convinced the outraged Tsarist official to call off his plans for revenge and to drop all charges against the peasants who had assaulted him.
Anna Abrikosova was reportedly horrified during the show trial, "and she felt she was going to be eaten".
Anna Abrikosova's crime, according to the Narodniks, was stopping the riot instead of urging the peasants of Tarasovka into further escalation of the violence, as, "it was just an opportune moment for rousing them up to rebel".
Richter alleges in her memoirs that "during the vacations we visited each other's families" and that Anna Abrikosova was along during visits to Lady Dorothy's relatives, and that they were honored guests at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Naworth Castle in Cumbria.
Lady Dorothy Howard's letters make occasional references to Anna Abrikosova receiving attentions from aristocratic suitors.
Anna Abrikosova preferred to select her own God for herself.
Finally, Anna Abrikosova, who had sought the meaning of life by researching and studying many different religious and philosophical systems, came to a very severe moment of crisis.
Little by little, and with the help of Francois-Xavier Hertzog, the Procurator General of the Suplician Order, Anna Abrikosova won her husband over to her religious convictions.
Anna Abrikosova often made fun of her faith; this she took in good part, and Mme.
Anna Abrikosova accordingly spoke the Polish language both poorly and imperfectly.
Anna Abrikosova even confided in me his wish to become a priest and asked me to recommend the required textbooks.
Anna Abrikosova shared the beauty of Dante's poetry and the depth of his faith with the sisters and the parishioners.
Anna Abrikosova gave lectures on the filioque question in accordance with the Fathers of the Eastern Church.
Anna Abrikosova was left unable to use her left arm, but was deemed cancer free.
Anna Abrikosova died of spinal cancer based in the sacral bone inside Butyrka Prison infirmary on July 23,1936, and at the age of only 54 years of age.
When news of Anna Abrikosova's death reached the large community of anti-communist Russians in Paris, an obituary was written in French by Helene Iswolsky and published in l'Annee Dominicaine.
Anna Abrikosova found that the sisters were being ministered to, under orders from the Master of the Order of Preachers Aniceto Fernandez Alonso, by Dominican priests visiting from the People's Republic of Poland and by Volodymyr Prokopiv, a graduate of the Russicum, fellow Gulag survivor, and priest of the illegal and underground Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Anna Abrikosova herself wrote some meditations based on the liturgical year and Dominican feast days.
Anna Abrikosova's translation was published anonymously in 1916 and was republished after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Robert Hugh Benson's subtle contempt for the Eastern Catholic Churches and "Greek Christianity", Anna Abrikosova translated his dystopian novel Lord of the World from English to Russian shortly before the Bolshevik Revolution.
Mother Anna Abrikosova Ivanovna was able to understand the needs and psychological difficulties of contemporary men and women.