Ivanov, Peter Konstantinovich

Birth

Born on February 10, 1876 in Cherkassy of the Russian Empire (currently - the territory of Ukraine ). Father - Konstantin Petrovich rose to the rank of major general of artillery , was a participant in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 and the hero of Plevna . Uncle Alexander Petrovich was a lieutenant in artillery and fought as a volunteer on the side of the Serbs and Bulgarians in 1876-1878, then for 30 years (1880-1910) he worked as a scribe for Leo Tolstoy . Grandfather Peter Danilovich Ivanov - a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, retired with the rank of captain of the 1st Marine Regiment .

Life Before Emigration

In 1901 he graduated from the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University . In 1903 he published the book Students in Moscow . Gen. Manners. Types ”, in 1904 -“ To the Enemies of Leonid Andreev ”. Before the Revolution, she leads a secular lifestyle, a passionate theatrical and newspaper employee. Having married the daughter of industrialist Morozov, he took a large dowry for his wife. He was distinguished by wide charity. Having visited the bullfight in Spain, he received a severe nervous shock. Upon his return to Moscow, the news of the death of his wife and daughter from typhus brought him to a psychiatric hospital, he developed severe deafness. In the hospital, he saw a vision of the Cross, after which he felt healthy, remembered God and became a church person. In 1923 he was elected to the Moscow Diocesan Congress for the election of members of the All-Russian Local Council of 1923 , he opposes the Renovationists .

Life in exile

In May 1923 he emigrated to his brother in Germany . He is a member of the All-Russian Union of Writers in Berlin , participates in the work of the Religious and Philosophical Academy, founded by Berdyaev . Since November 1924 he lived in Paris . In the 1920s and 1930s, he was often unemployed, living on temporary earnings.

Since 1925 he has been collaborating with the magazines Put, Modern Zapiski, Renaissance, and gives lectures on religious topics. In 1925 he published the book "Humility in Christ", which was positively commented on. Alexander Shmeman , Archpriest Vasily Zenkovsky , Zinaida Gippius , Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov) . Collaborates with the Salvation Army , the Gospel circle, the Association of Russians in Clichy , and the Society for Spiritual Culture. He took upon himself the feat of caring for and helping sick Russian emigrants — he searched the hospitals for sick Russian people, provided them with books, gifts, consoled him in conversation, attracted other people to this, and asked for alms for them. In 1949, YMCA-Press published the book “The Secret of the Saints - An Introduction to the Apocalypse .”

Death

Died July 15, 1956 in Saint-Raphael in the south of France . A message in the Russian Thought newspaper dated July 21, 1956 about his death went unnoticed, and his name did not appear in the book Unforgettable Graves.

Nothing testifies to his spiritual talent more than his beautiful book The Secret of Saints, which is all permeated with the light of the early Christian faith. We can say that P.K. had a spiritual eye of a vision of the early Church of Christ, and from this vision he had a harsh, implacable attitude to modern church reality. I will not retell his ideas about the clergy “according to the order of Melchizedek,” but what he wrote in his book about the early Christian Church testifies to the depth of his contemplation.

- Vasily Zenkovsky

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• D. Merezhkovsky. Francis of Assisi "//" The Way ", 1938/1939, No. 58. - S. 66-71.
• Diocesan Congress in Moscow for the election of members of the Council of 1923 / P.K. Ivanov - 1925. - No. 1 (Sept.) - S. 139-147 (in the section "From Russian Spiritual Life").
• The hidden meaning of events in the Russian Orthodox Church (Mysticism and Psychology) / Peter Ivanov. - 1927. - No. 8 (Aug.). - S. 122-130.
• The beauty of Chekhov: M. Kurdyumov. “The Heart is Confused” (about Chekhov’s work). - YMCA-Press. 1934.: [Review] / Peter Ivanov. - 1935, - No. 46 (Jan.-March). - S. 66–70 (in the section “New Books”).
• Testament of the Apostle Paul (About Christ crucified, about love and the spirit of antichrist) / Peter Ivanov. - 1938. - No. 55 (Jan-Apr). - S. 41-52.
• La dame de Paris.// Modern Notes, 1925, No. 24 C (Monthly Socio-Political and Literary Journal, Paris);
• Lawmaker of Emperor Alexander II and Metropolitan Filaret. // Renaissance, 1954, No. 35. - P. 148-164 (Literary and political notebooks. Ed. I. I. Tkhorzhevsky, Paris).
• About N. A. Berdyaev and V. A. Ternavtsev. // New Journal, 1960. No. 60. - S. 285–289 (Literary and Political Edition. Ed. M. A. Aldanov. New York).

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• prot. A. Schmemann. Russian theology: 1920-1972. Introductory Overview (English) = Russian Theology: 1920-1972. An Introductory Survey // St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly: magazine. - Yonkers, New York: SVS Press, 1972. - Vol. 16 , no. 4 . - P. 172-194 .

• Religious figures of the Russian abroad
• Memoirs of Ivanov P.K.