BUCHAREV, Alexandr Matvejevič. — Russian writer, known as “Archimandrite Feodor,” b. 1822, d. 1871. A dissident religious thinker animated by the ideal of re-Christianizing the world, he became a monk. Later he taught theology at Kazan and published numerous articles on topical religious themes. Indignant because censorship had prevented him from printing a commentary on the Apocalypse owing to his “confused ideas,” he requested to be reduced to the lay state, an unusual case in Russia. He accepted all ecclesiastical and civil penalties out of love for the humiliated Christ. Yet he later married, to the great scandal of all. In 1866 he defended himself in an apology. He died in extreme poverty.
BIBL.: A. P. Lopuchin, s. V. ENOCH. Teol. Ortodossa, II, St. Petersburg 1901, cols. 1200-1207; B. Schultze, Pensatori russi di fronte a Cristo, I, Florence 1947, pp. 161 ff.