Mikhail Andreyevich Gratinsky (Gratsinsky) ( 1770 - 1828 ) - archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church , regimental priest of the Cavalier Guard regiment from 1806 to 1822 , was awarded a golden cross on the St. George ribbon. Member of the Patriotic War of 1812 . The RGVIA has documents related to Gratinsky.
| Gratinsky Mikhail Andreevich | |||
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| Date of Birth | 1770 | ||
| Place of Birth | Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | July 17, 1828 | ||
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg Russian empire | ||
| Nationality |  Russian empire | ||
| Occupation | military priest | ||
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Biography
Born in November 1770 in the family of archpriest, brought up in the Alexander Nevsky Seminary.
June 26, 1791 , at the end of the seminary, he entered as a deacon in St. Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Cathedral . April 3, 1793 was transferred to the Epiphany Cathedral.
On February 3, 1797, Gratinsky was ordained a priest and sent to serve in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, and on December 23, 1800 , at the highest command, he was transferred to the Cavalier Guard regiment . [one]
May 4, 1804 was elevated to the rank of archpriest. In the same year, he participated with the regiment in the anti-Napoleonic campaign in Austria and was at the battle of Austerlitz. March 25, 1807 went with a regiment in Prussia.
In 1812, the regiment in which Gratinsky served was sent to Vilna , then retreated into the interior of Russia. On August 26, Father Mikhail took part in the battle of Borodino .
After the surrender of Moscow, he remained in the city and served as a clergyman. [2] After the liberation of Moscow, Father Michael was awarded the Golden Cross on the St. George ribbon by Alexander I [3] and became the confessor of Alexander I.
Father Michael returned to his regiment in Germany on March 3, 1813, and with it proceeded “ through Slesia, Prussia, Bohemia, where on August 18 he was at the actual battle of Kulm, then through Saxony, the Weimar, Wyrtenberg, Bavarian possessions to the Rhine ". Then he came to France, " where on March 13 at the town of Ferschampenoise was in a real battle ." On March 19, he entered Paris with a regiment, and with the regiment, at the end of the campaign, he returned.
Since 1815, it was the Dean of the Guards Corps.
In 1822 he was transferred to the palace cathedral of the Winter Palace , where he served for six and a half years.
He died of dropsy on July 17, 1828 . He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Smolensk cemetery.
After his death, his wife - Marya Stepanovna (52 years old) and son Ivan (22 years old) remained.
Rewards
- pectoral cross (1806), kamilavka (1807);
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (for the Battle of Borodino, 1812);
- Golden Cross on the St. George Ribbon (1813);
- diamond signs for the Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree ("for the diligent performance during the entire war of the Christian rite at the site of the battle over the dying and seriously wounded", 1814);
- pectoral cross on the Vladimir tape (in memory of the war of 1812, 1818);
- the club (1823).