Tito Colliander

Tito Colliander was born in Saint Petersburg on 10 February 1904, the son of Colonel Sigfrid Colliander. He studied drawing at the school of the Finnish Fine Arts Society from 1921 to 1923, then taught it at the Swedish girls' school in Porvoo until 1928. In 1930 he married the painter Ina Behrsen, with whom he joined the Orthodox Church. He attended the Orthodox seminary from 1949 to 1953, taught the Orthodox religion in Helsinki from 1950 to 1969, wrote a seven-volume series of memoirs and received an honorary doctorate in theology in 1968. He died in Helsinki on 21 May 1989.

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• NovelKorstågetTito Colliander · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature