Grimblit, Tatyana Nikolaevna

Born in a deeply believing Orthodox family. Father - an employee of the excise department Nikolay Grimblit. Mother - Vera Antoninovna Grimblit. She was brought up in love for God and the Church by her grandfather, Archpriest Antonin Alexandrovich Misyurov ^[1] .

In 1920 she graduated from the Mariinsky Gymnasium in Tomsk ^[2] .

In the same year, her father died, and she went to work as a teacher in the children's colony "Keys" in Tomsk ^[2] .

At that time, the civil war in Siberia ended, repression by the new Soviet power began, and soon Siberia became its place of detention and exile. Having decided to devote her life to helping her neighbors, Tatyana decided for herself as a rule the earned money, as well as what she managed to collect in the temples of the city of Tomsk, exchange for food and things, and transfer them to prisoners in Tomsk prison. When she arrived at the prison, she asked the administration which of the prisoners did not receive food transfers, and so she transmitted them ^[2] .

In 1923, Tatyana was lucky to transfer the needy prisoners to a prison in the city of Irkutsk . Here she was arrested, charged with counter-revolutionary activity, which consisted of charity to prisoners, but was released after four months ^[2] .

While dealing with the help of exiles and prisoners, she met many famous bishops and priests of the Russian Orthodox Church who were imprisoned in Siberian prisons. Her active charitable work more and more attracted the attention of OGPU employees. Information was collected for her arrest. Finally, in 1925, she was arrested. This time she was released after seven days ^[2] .

On May 6, 1925, during interrogation, she said:

Since 1920, I have provided material assistance to the exiled clergy, and generally to the exiled, who are in the Alexander Central , Irkutsk Prison and Tomsk and in the Narymsky Territory. Funds were raised by me through churches and the city, both in cash and in goods and products. I sent money and things by mail and with fellow travelers, that is, with an opportunity. With a fellow traveler, she sent a parcel weighing about two pounds to the name of Bishop Barsanuphius (Vikhvelin) to the Narym exile. I do not know the name of the fellow traveler. Before Christmas, I still sent a package to the same name, I also don’t know the name of the fellow traveler. In the Alexander Central, I assisted priests, in Irkutsk Prison, Bishop Victor (Epiphany) , in the Narym exile, priests Popov and Kopylov, Bishops Euthymius (Lapin) , Anthony (Bystrov) , Ioannikiy (Speransky) , Agafangel (Preobrazhensky) in Tomsk houses of imprisonment, and laity; general prisoners, not knowing the reasons for their imprisonment.

Third Arrest

Arrested for the third time on May 7, 1925. Concluded in Tomsk OGPU. At the end of the investigation on May 18, 1925, the Tomsk OGPU decided: “Considering that the inquiry does not seem to be possible to obtain the necessary materials for a public trial, but the guilt ... is still established, and therefore the inquiry is considered complete and, according to the order of the OGPU for No. 172, to send to the Special Meeting at the College of the OGPU for the application of ... extrajudicial punishment - an administrative link. ” On March 26, 1926, she was sentenced by the Special Meeting of the OGPU Board to exile for three years in the Zyryan (Komi) Autonomous Region under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. July 15, 1927 sent by stage to Turkestan ( Kazakhstan ?) To serve the remaining term. December 19, 1927 was released under an amnesty with the right to choose a place of residence.

After his release, from March 1928 to April 14, 1931, he lives in Zamoskvorechye , where he serves as the singing church of St. Nicholas in Pyzhi (the rector of the church is St. Gabriel Melekessky ). He continues to actively help prisoners ^[3] .

Fourth Arrest

The fourth time she was arrested on April 14, 1931 on charges of systematic anti-Soviet agitation. During interrogation, she confirmed that she helped exiles and prisoners, but indicated that she helped all prisoners, both church ones and non-believers. On April 30, 1931, she was sentenced by the Special Meeting at the OGPU Board under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp for active anti-Soviet activity, expressed in the organization of illegal "sisterhoods" and "brotherhoods", assistance to the exiled clergy. From April 14 to May 9, 1931 she was imprisoned in Butyrka prison . From May 1931 to 1932 - in the Vishera forced labor camp of the OGPU ( Ural region , Usolye ). In the camp she studied medicine and began to work as a paramedic .

In 1932, she was released with the ban on living in twelve cities of the USSR for the remaining term. She chose Yuryev-Polsky as her place of residence, where she lived from 1932 to 1933.

In 1933 she began to work as a paramedic of the hospital of the city of Alexandrov .

From 1935 until the last arrest, he was a nurse and laboratory assistant at the Konstantinovsky district hospital (Konstantinovo village, next to Sergiev Posad ).

Last Arrest and Martyrdom

The last (fifth) time was arrested on September 6, 1937. For several days she was placed in the Konstantinovsky district branch of the NKVD. From the note of the martyr Tatiana on the day of arrest:

I knew that having put on a cross, the one on me will go again. For God, I’ll not only go to prison, even if I’ll go to the grave with joy.

From the interrogation of Tatyana Nikolaevna Grimblit:

- Accused Grimblit, do you plead guilty to conducting anti-Soviet agitation during your service in the Konstantinovsky hospital?

- I have never conducted any anti-Soviet agitation anywhere. For phrases when, sparing me, they told me: “You can spend money on beautiful clothes and on a sweet piece,” I prefer to dress more modestly, and send the remaining money to those in need.

- How did you appear as a religious person regarding the Soviet regime and the people around you?

- Before the authorities and those around me, I tried to prove myself to be an honest and conscientious worker, and with this I could prove that a religious person can be a necessary and useful member of society. I didn’t hide my religion ...

After these interrogations, she was imprisoned in Zagorsk . The last interrogation took place on September 21, before sending the indictment to the decision of the “ troika ”. Interrogated by an employee of the NKVD Fried Iosifovich Idelson ^[4] :

- You are accused of anti-Soviet agitation. Do you plead guilty?

- I do not plead guilty. Never engaged in anti-Soviet agitation.

- You are also accused of wrecking, the deliberate killing of patients in the hospital of the village of Konstantinovo. Do you plead guilty?

- I do not plead guilty, I have never been engaged in sabotage activities.

After reading the interrogation protocol, Tatyana signed: "It is written down from my words correctly, I personally read it."

On September 6, 1937, the Troika of the NKVD in the Moscow Region sentenced Tatyana to be shot under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for "anti-Soviet agitation, assistance to prisoners, and religious conversations." September 23, 1937 was shot and buried at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.

By a 1931 sentence (fourth arrest), she was rehabilitated by the USSR prosecutor’s office on October 11, 1991.

On July 17, 2002, by a resolution of the Holy Synod, he was numbered among the holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia for general church veneration ^[5] .

On November 4, 2005, on the patronal feast of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God , with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenal of Krutitsky and Kolomensky, the rite on the foundation of a new church in honor of the Archangel Michael and the Martyr Tatiana (Grimblit) was performed in the fence of the Kazan Church in Reutov ^[6] .

In September 2010, the “Service of Orthodox Volunteers of Saint Tatiana (Grimblit)” ^[7] was founded, which is engaged in working with cancer children and helping elderly people at home, as well as organizing and conducting charity events and concerts ^[8] .

Tatyana Grimblit is dedicated to the documentary “Give everything. The Holy Martyr Tatiana Grimblit ”(2010), director Inga Monaenkova, host Fedor Melentyev ^[9] , who received a diploma“ For opening the image of a new saint ”of the VI International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival“ Meeting ”2011 ^[10] .

Tatyana Grimblit is devoted to part 12 of the series of the documentary-historical program of Felix Razumovsky “ Who are we? ”In the cycle“ Russian Calvary ”(2013) ^[11] .

On July 9, 2019, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved the text of the service to the new martyr Tatiana Grimblit ^[12] .

A notebook with verses from the martyr Tatiana has been preserved, containing both early works, starting in 1920, and later, written in prison and camp ^[13] . “It is not the magnificence of the poetic syllable that attracts the reader of these verses, but, first of all, the endless, eternal love for Christ, expressed in the word and witnessed by the life and death of the holy martyr” ^[14] .

• Facebook page dedicated to the glorification of the New Martyr Tatiana (Grimblet)
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• Martyr Tatiana (Grimblit). Lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the 20th Century Russian Moscow Diocese. Add. Volume I - Tver: Bulat, 2005, pp. 174-186.
• Melentyev F. I. Memories of childhood in the poetry of the new martyr Tatiana Grimblit // IX Easter Readings: Materials of the Ninth Scientific and Methodological Conference “Humanities and Orthodox Culture” / Scientific. ed. I.G. Mineralova. M., 2012.S. 68-73.
• Damascene (Oryol), igum. “Dress more modestly and give the remaining money to the poor.” Martyr Tatiana Grimblet .
• Tatiana (Grimblet). Orthodox saint. Bulletin of Zamoskvorechye
• Martyr Tatiana Grimblet
• Poems of the Martyr Tatiana (Grimblit)