Alexei Navalny embodied and died for a Russian hope that relies on Christian faith

Alexei Navalny – like Alexander Solzhenitsyn – was schooled in atheism. But – also like Solzhenitsyn – Navalny was influenced and baptised during childhood by religious grandparents. Navalny become a believer after the birth of his first child. In his memoir, Patriot, he says: “Like anyone who grew up in the Soviet Union, I had