{"id":833,"date":"2007-03-13T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2007-03-13T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T02:59:00","slug":"my-continued-fascination-with-gleb-botkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"My continued fascination with Gleb Botkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently found a Wikipedia entry on Gleb Botkin<\/a>. I still think that he is one of the most fascinating figures in American Paganism, with a life whose arc connected the lost world<\/a> of the Russian royal family to the contemporary Pagan revival of the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n

He is worth a biography of his own, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently found a Wikipedia entry on Gleb Botkin. I still think that he is one of the most fascinating figures in American Paganism, with a life whose arc connected the lost world of the Russian royal family to the contemporary Pagan revival of the 1950s and 1960s. 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