Vladimir Lossky

Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky was born on 8 June 1903 in Göttingen, Germany. His father, Nikolai Lossky, was a professor of philosophy in Saint Petersburg. Vladimir Lossky enrolled as a student at the Faculty of Arts at Petrograd University in 1919, and, in the spring of 1922, was profoundly struck when he witnessed the trial which led to the execution of Metropolitan Benjamin of St Petersburg by the Soviets. Metropolitan Benjamin was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.