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Basil von Burman
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Basil von Burman (in monasticism Vladimir) (1891, Warsaw, Russian Empire - 1959, the abbey of St. Procopius Abbey Lisle, Detroit, USA) was a OSB Catholic ierodiakon of the Byzantine rite, the church historian, a member of Russian apostolate and a leader of the Russian Diaspora. Biography Born in 1891 in Warsaw, at the time included in the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire, von Burman was son of the prefect of police and was Orthodox by religion and from Baltic Germans by ethnical origin. During the Civil War he served with Anton Denikin and Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel in the rank of colonel. He emigrated with his family in 1921 to Yugoslavia and he lived in Croatia. During World War II, he joined the Russian Corps. His wife was killed by Tito's partisans. Basil von Burman in 1945 moved to Catholicism in Niederaltaich Abbey in Bavaria, where he was tonsured with the name Vladimir. After a few years von Burman goes to France, where he worked on a translation into Russian of "The Story of a Soul," of Therese of Lisieux. In 1955 Bishop Paul Meletiou ordained him to the rank of deacon. In 1956 started writing biographies of the Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church Leonid Fyodorov, which was published in Rome, and about Patriarch of the UGCC Josyf Slipyj in 1966. Then went to the USA, where the biography translated into English. He died in 1959 at the Abbey of Lisle - Monastery of Saint Procopius at Detroit, USA. Works Leonid Fedorov: The life and work. Rome, 1966 . (Re: Lions, 1993 ). 
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