BUCHAREV, ALEXANDR MATVEJEVIĆ. — Russian writer, known as “the archimandrite Teodoro,” born in 1822 and died in 1871. A dissident religious thinker animated by the ideal of rechristianizing the world, he became a monk. Later he taught theology at Kazan and published numerous articles on current religious topics. Irritated because the censor had not allowed him to print a commentary on the Apocalypse on account of his “confused ideas,” he asked to be reduced to the lay state, an unusual case in Russia. He accepted all ecclesiastical and civil penalties for the love of the humiliated Christ. Later, however, he married, to everyone’s great scandal. In 1866 he defended himself in an apologia. He died in extreme poverty.
BIBL.: A. P. Lopuchin, s. V. in Enc. Teol. Ortodossa, II, Pietroburgo 1901, cols. 1200–1207; B. Schultze, Pensatori russi di fronte a Cristo, I, Firenze 1947, pp. 161 ff.