Ognev, Nikolay Vasilievich

The son of the master of theology, priest Vasily Ivanovich Ognev . He graduated from the Vyatka Theological Seminary ( 1886 ), the St. Petersburg Theological Academy with a degree of candidate of theology ( 1891 ).

From September 1891, he was a psalmist at the Trinity Church in the village of Darovsky Kotelnichesky Uyezd in the territory of the Vyatka Diocese. In 1891-1904 he served in the churches of Yelabuga, Sarapulsky, Oryol counties in the same diocese.

March 26, 1895 ordained to the priesthood. Combined ministry in the church with teaching.

Since 1902 - archpriest, rector of the Kazan-Bogoroditsky Cathedral of the city of Orlov , chairman of the Oryol district branch of the Vyatka diocesan school council, deputy from the clergy in the city duma.

The appointment of a fairly young educated priest as catholic archpriest may be related to the activities in the Vyatka diocese of her ruling bishop in 1901 - 1904 , an energetic bishop Nikon (Sofia) , who, according to the memoirs of his contemporaries, pursued a very decisive personnel policy, so that they flew down under his strong arm fallen idols of service and ascended the top of the hierarchical staircase insignificant faces, but good talents.

Since October 1904 - rector of the Trinity Cathedral in Yaransk .

Social and political activities

In August 1905, he chaired the diocesan congress of the clergy, at which he urged participants to express their views on church-wide issues. In his speech, he expressed alarming feelings in connection with the fact that "the intelligentsia is generally indifferent to the Church, partly hostile ... The pastors themselves often conduct their business timidly and sluggishly." He stated that the parish priest had "a variety of supervision in the person of deans, missionaries, school supervisors, etc. All this imposes on the clergy the seal of slavery, humiliation, slaughter, timidity. ” He advocated strengthening the legal position of the clergy and attracting lay people to "broad active participation in church life."

On December 12-13, 1905, he organized in Yaransk the first pastoral-lay assembly in the history of the diocese, at which questions about the decline of church life and the need to renew the church system, and attitudes toward the political liberation movement were examined. The meeting ended with the singing of the Russian anthem, many years to the emperor and “noble fighters for the liberation movement,” the eternal memory of “freedom fighters”.

In January 1906, he initiated the second such meeting, for which he was brought to trial by civil and spiritual authorities. He was nominated by the Vyatka clergy as a candidate member of the State Council . Organizer and chairman of the Yaran department of the Constitutional Democratic Party (People’s Freedom Party). Publicist. In August 1906, by order of the Vyatka bishop Filaret, he was not allowed to attend the next diocesan congress of the clergy.

In 1906, he was a member of the I State Duma from the Vyatka province, was a member of the cadet faction. He delivered a speech against the death penalty, which was then published as a separate pamphlet. He signed the Vyborg Appeal with a call not to pay taxes and boycott the draft in the army, It is forbidden to serve after the publication of the appeal. In November 1906, parishioners of the Trinity Cathedral of Yaransk (331 people) petitioned for the lifting of the ban. In 1907 he was expelled from the Vyatka province in an administrative order. The Holy Synod for signing the Vyborg appeal was deprived of the holy dignity, and by a civil court on December 18, 1907 sentenced to three months in prison - this led to the deprivation of political rights.

After the deprivation of dignity, he decided to professionally engage in law. He graduated from the law faculty of St. Petersburg University , was engaged in advocacy, was a sworn attorney of the Vyatka district court. In 1917, he was an assistant to the Vyatka provincial commissar of the Provisional Government ; from June 1917, he was a vowel of the Vyatka City Council from the cadet party. In 1917 - Member of the Presidium of the Vyatka Provisional Committee of the Party of People’s Freedom. He edited the Vyatka cadet newspaper, after the Bolsheviks came to power, he was in opposition to them.

As a sworn attorney, in 1918 he was a legal adviser to the Transfiguration Convent in Vyatka. In the same year he wrote about the northern women's monasteries: ... These monasteries have long been a peculiar solution to the women's issue in our northern villages, when extra members of peasant families, with meager peasant allotments, must go to extraneous earnings in search of work and food. Monasteries are a haven for them, where these voluntary exiles, “extra mouths” find for themselves a school of labor and the application of labor, food, shelter, and charity in case of illness or old age ...

February 20, 1918 was arrested by the Bolshevik authorities, was imprisoned in the basement of the former Vyatka spiritual consistory. In August 1918 he was shot.

Together with him were shot:

• Schurovich Peter Alexandrovich. Member of the Vyatka provincial committee of the cadet party since 1905, deputy chairman. Member of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 , distinguished himself in the capture of Kars . For many years - the vowel of the Vyatka City Council and the Vyatka Provincial Zemstvo Assembly. He was a member of the provincial zemstvo council, chairman of the small loan fund established by the provincial zemstvo.
• Zhirnov Joseph Mikhailovich. Secretary and activist of the provincial committee of the cadet party. From the peasants of the Urzhum district of the Vyatka province, in his youth he was a national teacher. He was elected vowel of the Urzhum district and Vyatka provincial zemstvo assembly. After moving to Vyatka, he worked at the cash loan office, was a regular employee of the Vyatka beekeeping leaflet.

• Father - Vasily Ivanovich Ognev (December 19, 1837 - July 2, 1884 ). Graduated from Vyatka Theological Seminary, Kazan Theological Academy. Master of Theology. He taught at the Perm Theological Seminary, from which he was fired for "promoting freethinking." Since 1873 - priest of the Vyatka diocese, served in Vyatka (in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Cathedral, the Baptist Church), then in the Kazan-Bogoroditsky Cathedral in Orlov. He collaborated in the Vyatka Statistical Committee, the author of several articles on history, the book “Pages from the history of the book in Russia. Church-historical experiments ”(Vyatka, 1880 ), written on the materials of the library of the Solovetsky monastery .
• Wife - Tatyana Ivanovna, the family had 6 children, at the time of deprivation of dignity, there was also an elderly mother in the care of Ognev ^[1] .
  • Daughter - Maria Nikolaevna Ogneva. She graduated from the Higher Women's Bestuzhev Courses, Vyatka Pedagogical Institute. She taught literature, Russian language and history at the schools of Vyatka (Kirov). She was awarded the Order of Lenin .
  • Son - Gavriil Nikolaevich Ognev (1895-1942). He graduated in 1920 from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Petrograd University . Then he worked as an assistant at the Department of Geology and Mineralogy at the Vyatka Pedagogical Institute, since 1921 - a researcher at the Department of Agronomy of Leningrad State University , and since 1925 - a researcher at the Aldan detachment of the Commission for the Study of the Yakut SSR. Died in evacuation.
  • Also Evdokia, Ivan, Vasily (born 1902) and 1 more child.

• State Duma of the Russian Empire. 1906-1917. M., 2006.S. 442.
• Sukhikh A., archpriest. Recall by name. Book 7. Kirov (Vyatka), 2006. S. 42-44.
• Essays on the history of the Vyatka diocese (1657-2007). Kirov (Vyatka), 2007.S. 315-316, 320, 324.
• In memory of the dead / Ed. N.I. Astrov, V.F. Seeler, P.N. Milyukov, Prince V.A. Obolensky, S.A. Smirnov and L.E. Elyashev. P., 1929.S. 57.
• His Eminence Nikon, Archbishop of Kartalinsky and Kakheti, Exarch of Georgia (1861-1908). St. Petersburg, 1909.

• Library of the Dynasty of Clergy of Fire
• The "Months" of the Fire Family. To the genealogy of the Vyatka intelligentsia
• About the Transfiguration Monastery in Vyatka