Dimitry Pospielovsky  Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky (13 January 1935 - 12 September 2014) (, transliterated academically as "Dmítrij Vladímirovič Pospjélovskij") was a historian, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Western Ontario. He was a prominent researcher in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pospielovsky was born in 1935 in Ryasniki, a village then in Poland, now in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. He also published a number of articles, in English and Russian, on other issues of Russian history, in particular, on workers' movement at the times of Russian Revolutions and on Russian nationalism. Pospielovsky died in London, Ontario, on 12 September 2014.