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Gerard George Shelley (1891 – 24 August 1980) was a British linguist, author and translator who travelled in Imperial Russia before and during the Russian Revolution. Not much is known of where he was born, but he was not related to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.〔''The Speckled Domes. Episodes of an Englishman's life in Russia'', p. 236.〕 He became a priest and lived in a community of the Oblates of St. Joseph. He was ordained in March 1950 as a bishop in the Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain (ORCCGB). In 1952 he became the third archbishop. == Life == Brought up as a Roman Catholic, Shelley attended an Italian college near Lake Garda in 1907. Near Venice he was invited by a Russian aristocrat, Countess Bobrinsky, to visit her. In 1913, influenced by Stephen Graham, he travelled by train from Warsaw to Kursk, Kharkov, Belgorod and Shebekino where he stayed for a year with his host and learned Russian at Kharkov University. (He already spoke French, German and Italian from an early age.) After World War I broke out he worked as an interpreter for various groups of prisoners of war.〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 52 )〕 In April 1915 he stayed on the family estate in Bogoroditsk; he visited Moscow and met with Grigori Rasputin in the atelier of a sculptor, probably Naoum Aronson. On 26 March, Rasputin is said, while inebriated, to have opened his trousers and waved his "reproductive organ" in front of a group of female gypsy singers in the Yar restaurant.〔Edvard Radzinsky (2010), p. 295 ()〕〔Orlando Figes, pp. 32–33.〕 A few days later a waiter assessed the story to Shelley as bunkum.〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 88. )〕 In St. Peterburg, Shelley met with Count Vladimir Frederiks,〔(Alexander Palace )〕 and again with Rasputin and the Empress, accompanied by her daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana, drinking tea in his apartment. Rasputin visited him also, when Shelley was camping at Lake Ladoga in 1916.〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 91-94. )〕 In December of the same year Shelley went back to the UK for Christmas and defended Rasputin.〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 95. )〕 In his book "The speckled domes" he describes Rasputin as an ascetic, an old testament prophet, or as a medieval figure from the pages of Chaucer. "Although a peasant he had clear ideas on a host of matters." Most stories known about Rasputin, being filthy, smelly, or drunk, were invented (exaggerated ) by the Russian aristocracy, because they hated peasants, already for centuries.〔The Speckled Domes. Episodes of an Englishman's life in Russia, p. 52-53, 57, 65, 67.〕 According to Shelley, Russia was a caste society and "perhaps no man in history has been so furiously calumniated." File:Sortavalan saaristoa-2.jpg|View on Lake Ladoga where Shelley and his friend sat with Rasputin who also arrived by boat In January, Shelley went back to the Russian Republic.〔The Speckled Domes. Episodes of an Englishman's life in Russia, p. 76.〕 Shelley gives an account of the mood after the February Revolution and gives his view on the Russian Provisional Government, Lenin and the October Revolution. Back in Moscow he wrote about free love and the changing attitude to marriage in the early years of communist Russia; the murdering of Tsar Nicholas II (at that time it was not known the whole family was killed); the socialists, the anarchists, the Jews in the Bolshevik party (see also Jewish Bolshevism); the famine, the ruble, the escape of Alexander Krivoshein, his meetings with the wife of Mikhail Pokrovsky and Sinn Féin. Shelley was accused of being a counter-revolutionary and unable to leave the country as a hostage. He escaped, dressed as a woman, stuck under the seats in a train from Moscow to Finland〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 262 )〕〔(In the Land of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613–1917) by Anthony Cross )〕〔The Speckled Domes. Episodes of an Englishman's life in Russia, p. 253.〕 surrounded by a group of French women, who together bribed the chief Red Guard. He arrived in Sweden where he had his first decent meal since months. Back in London he describes a pro-Russia meeting at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park.〔(Gerald Shelley (1925) The Blue Steppes, p. 264. )〕 Shelley defended free labour unions. He worked as an interpreter at the Paris Peace Conference (1919). In 1921 he was contracted by the International Federation of Trade Unions in Switzerland.〔(From Paris to Nuremberg: The birth of conference interpreting by Jesús Baigorri-Jalón )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard Shelley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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