Ornatsky, Philosopher Nikolaevich

• Father - Nikolai Platonovich Ornatsky, priest of the Novoyergovsky Epiphany Church of the 1st Petrine St. Volost of the Cherepovets district.
• Brother - Ivan Nikolaevich, a priest, was married to the niece of Archpriest John of Kronstadt . February 23, 1936 ( 1936-02-23 ) was sentenced to five years in prison and the next year he died in the camp.
• Sons - Nikolai and Boris Filosofovich, shot together with their father in October 1918 and numbered as holy martyrs.
• Wife - Elena Nikolaevna, nee Zaozerskaya, daughter of the former subdeacon Metropolitan Isidore .
• The brother-in-law is the holy martyr Peter Scepter .

The surname Ornatsky was “passed on” to his grandfather Platon Iosifovich, the former Bishop of Penza and Saratov, Ambrose (in the world Andrei Ornatsky, 1778-1827), who was at rest in Kirillov, who was a cousin of his great-grandfather.

He graduated from the Kirillov Theological College , St. Petersburg Theological Seminary ( 1881 ), St. Petersburg Theological Academy with a candidate of theology degree ( 1885 ).

Since July 28, 1885 - the priest of the church at the orphanage of the Prince of Oldenburg in St. Petersburg . Since 1892 - rector of the Church of St. Andrei Kritsky in St. Petersburg at the Expedition for the procurement of government securities. With his assistance, the Expedition opened a technical school that provided secondary and vocational education. He was his boss and at the same time a law teacher.

In 1893 - 1917, simultaneously a vowel of the St. Petersburg City Council from the clergy, he was a member of the Duma commissions for public education and charity. For 26 years, he was chairman of the St. Petersburg Society for the Promotion of Religious and Moral Education. He participated in the arrangement in the city of lodging houses, orphanages, and almshouses; through his efforts in St. Petersburg and the environs, 12 churches were erected, including the Church of the Resurrection of Christ at the Warsaw Station (the largest of them; Alexander Nevsky sobriety society was founded with the participation of Father Philosopher), the church of Peter and Paul in Lesnoy, the reverend Sergius of Radonezh on Novosivkovskoy street, St. Seraphim of Sarov for the Narva Gate, the Baptist church in the Vyborg district, Gerasimovsky church in Kupchino and Isidoro-Yuriev temple (another initiator of the construction of this temple was Fr. Nick Paul Kulbush, future bishop Plato ). As chairman of the temple construction committees, he managed a lot of money, but he lived very modestly, giving private lessons to feed his family.

Since 1895, he conducted conversations for workers at a bleaching factory. On June 8, 1898, with its help, the Estonian Orthodox Brotherhood was founded in the name of the holy martyr Isidor Yuryevsky . He also organized the Christian Community of Students. He was the editor and censor of a number of St. Petersburg spiritual journals, such as St. Petersburg Theological Journal, Rest of the Christian, and the Russian Orthodox Word. An outstanding preacher, during the 1905 revolution , called on the workers of the Narva region - the place of special activity of revolutionary propagandists - to be loyal to Emperor Nicholas II .

Since 1913 - rector of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg . During the First World War, he gave his apartment under the infirmary for the wounded soldiers, and he and his family moved to a small government premises. Repeatedly traveled to war zones, escorting transports with items and goods necessary for soldiers.

He was awarded the Order of St. Prince Vladimir IV ( 1906 ) and III ( 1914 ) degrees .

In 1917, led by Bishop Veniamin (Kazan), he was one of the founders of the Union of Church Unity . He opposed the abolition of the teaching of God's law in schools.

In January 1918, Archpriest Pyotr Skipetrov (his relative, the husband of his wife’s sister), participated in the funeral of the deceased at the hands of the Bolsheviks in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . Metropolitan Benjamin forbade speaking above the grave of speech, urging "to cry and pray." He organized the defense of the shrines of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, which the Bolsheviks intended to “requisition”, taking the initiative to make religious processions to it from all the churches of the capital.

In St. Petersburg he lived in the House of the Kazan Cathedral on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Kazan Street .

He was arrested in August 1918. Together with him, the sons of Nikolai (1886-1918, a military doctor) and Boris ( 1887-1918 , the headquarters captain of artillery) were arrested. Parishioners demanded the release of the priest; authorities in response transported him with his sons from Petrograd to Kronstadt .

Archpriest Philosopher Ornatsky and his sons were shot during the Red Terror , presumably around October 30, 1918. Along the way, he read aloud the departures over the condemned. According to some reports, the shooting took place in Kronstadt, according to others - not far from the Gulf of Finland between Ligovo and Oranienbaum . The bodies of the executed, apparently, were dropped into the bay.

In August 2000, Archpriest Philosopher Ornatsky and his sons Nikolai and Boris were numbered as Church general saints with the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

• On a holiday for shopping people. SPb., 1889.
• Russian Orthodox Mission and the Orthodox Church in Japan. SPb., 1889.
• About parenting. SPb., 1890.
• About work and holiday in the lives of working people. SPb., 1890.
• On the Christian education of women. SPb., 1892.
• The answer to Pashkovsky questions. SPb., 1893.
• About suicide before the trial of explicit teachings. St. Petersburg, 1894.
• A word about angels. St. Petersburg, 1894.
• Sarov teachings. SPb., 1903.
• Sect Pashkovtsev and the answer to Pashkovsky questions. SPb., 1903.

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