Abstract In February 1974, just days after author A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s deportation from the Soviet Union, Fr. Vsevolod Shpiller, a well-known Orthodox priest serving in Moscow, gave an interview to Novosti Press Agency which he provided negative appraisal of Solzhenitsyn as Christian writer. While Shpiller was quickly denounced by numerous dissidents traitor and stooge state, his vast correspond...