Archimandrite Nicholas (in the world Leonid Arkadyevich Drobyazgin ; 1855 , Taurida Province - 1924 , Kiev ) - Russian soldier, hereditary nobleman , later priest of the Russian Orthodox Church , archimandrite , missionary .
| Archimandrite Nikolai | ||
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| March 1914 - June 1915 | ||
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church | |
| Predecessor | Peter Preobrazhensky | |
| Successor | Tikhon (Lyashchenko) | |
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| 1906 - 1911 | ||
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church | |
| Predecessor | Adrian (Demidovich) | |
| Successor | Ambrose (Tidebel) | |
| Birth | 1855 Tavria Province | |
| Death | 1924 Kiev | |
| Buried | Kiev-Pechersk Lavra | |
| The adoption of holy dignity | November 18, 1896 | |
| Adoption of monasticism | November 2, 1896 | |
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Biography
Born in 1855 in the Tauride province into a family of hereditary nobles .
He graduated from the Junker class of the Naval Cadet Corps in the city of Nikolaev, Tavricheskaya province, and the mine officer class of the Naval Cadet Corps in the city of Kronstadt, St. Petersburg Province. On April 30, 1877, by order of Rear Admiral Alexei Pavlovich Yepanchin, he was promoted to midshipmen [1] .
Being a naval officer, he was fond of occult mysticism, was the editor of the Occult magazine "Rebus" [2] .
In the rank of captain of the 2nd rank , he met John of Kronstadt , entered into a correspondence with Theophan the Recluse and chose his spiritual father Schehrochimandrite Iliodor (Golovanitsky) from the Glinskaya desert . In the rank of captain 1 rank left a military career.
On November 2, 1896, in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, he was tonsured as a monk with the name of Nikolai , on November 10 he was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon , and on November 18 - to the rank of hieromonk .
In 1897 he was appointed to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing , and in 1900 - to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem . May 12, 1902 was awarded a club .
On March 5, 1903, he was appointed rector of the Caucasian Nicholas Missionary Monastery at Kavkazskaya Station. August 25, 1903 elevated to the dignity of archimandrite .
On January 22, 1904, he was appointed rector of the Nikolo-Babayevsky monastery of the Kostroma diocese and head of the parochial school operating at the monastery. On October 24, 1903, he became a full member of the Kostroma Provincial Academic Archival Commission, to which, on January 31, 1904, he donated 127 ancient coins. He was a correspondent for the Kostroma diocesan lists [3] .
From 1906 to 1911 he was appointed rector of the Ambassadorial Alexander Nevsky Church in Tehran .
From 1912 to 1914 he was rector of the Church of the Transfiguration in Baden-Baden and the Church of Karlsruhe [4] , but with the beginning of the First World War, he was forced to leave Germany.
From March 1914 to June 1915 he was rector of the embassy Nikolskaya church in Sofia .
In 1917, he was in Kiev , where he lived in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra .
In the autumn of 1924, he was found in his cell killed by "unknown persons". According to the American writer hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) , he was killed with a special dagger, indicating an occult murder [2] . He was buried in the cemetery of the Far Caves of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra [5] .
Family
- Father - Arkady Osipovich Drobyazgin, a nobleman, served since 1839 in the office of the Ministry of Finance, was the chairman of the Samara State Chamber; Acting State Counselor (since 1872), Governor of Kharkov, the leader of the nobility.
- Mother (born Akimova), was the elder sister of the Chairman of the State Council, Mikhail Akimov .
- Brother - Sergei Arkadyevich (1868-1917), Major General .
- Brother - Vladimir Arkadyevich († 1903), a graduate of the Imperial College of Law (1892 [6] ), college adviser; Assistant Legal Adviser of the General Directorate of Neocolations.
Bibliography
- Kostroma saints and their ecclesiastical and folk worship // Kostroma diocesan sheets .- 1903.- № 17.- Part N.- P. 511-515.
Notes
- ↑ Sea Collection number 7 for 1877
- ↑ 1 2 Seraphim (Rose) , hieromonk. Preface to the “Miracle of the Fakir and Jesus Prayer” / Archimandrite Nicholas (Drobyazgin) // Orthodoxy and the “Future Religion” / Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) ..
- ↑ Kostroma local lore monks.
- ↑ Foreign clergy in 1914.
- ↑ Cemetery in the Far Caves. (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is December 11, 2014. Archived December 11, 2014.
- List of former pupils of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence who graduated from the course of sciences in 1840-1917
Literature
- Gako. F. 130. Op. 13. D. 184. L. 55 v. 56; F. 705. Op. 1. D. 180. L. 20; D. 194. L. Rev. 1; D. 197. L. 1 v. -2.
- Journal of the meeting of the Kostroma provincial academic archival commission on October 24, 1903 // Kostroma provincial Gazette .- 1903.- № 76.
- Rezepin P.P. Kostroma local lore monks // Svetoch (Kostroma) .- 2009 .- No. 5.- p. 236–237.
- P. Rezepin. On pseudonyms in the Kostroma diocesan Vedomosti // Ibid .- 2010.- No. 6.- P. 274-277.