Saint Seraphim (in the light of Chichagov Leonid Mikhailovich) came from a known aristocratic family, who became famous in Russian history for prominent gamers, including military ones, among them there were two admirals. Leonid was born on September 9, 1856, near the city of St. Petersburg.

Yogo Batko, Mikhailo Nikiforovich, former Colonel of Artillery, and from the wiser minds of the sons of a similar car. Tim, in an hour, if Leonid's life was less than ten years old, the father died, and all the bindings for the morning that son's weaving (and three of his brothers) were taken on by his mother, Maria Mykolaivna.

An hour later, when the bajan was given the power of the military car for their blues, they appointed Leonid and two of his brothers to the Page Corps - the vіdomy for that hour in Russia the military-vihovny pledge. For r_k before the end of training in the Page Corps, Leonid took off the rank of chamber-page, and after graduating from 18 years of age, having entered the Artillery Academy, after which he violated the military service.

In 1877, the rozі vіn leaned in the Balkans, taking the fate of the bloody Russian-Turkish battles - on the Shipka Pass, and also from the capture of Telesh and Plevna. Masculinity and heroism, shown by Leonid in the war, were marked by battlefield towns. The promise of God saved him from death.

After turning back from the front to peaceful St. Petersburg, I changed my mind against strong hostility from what I had experienced in the war, and wrote a bunch of books from that drive: about the heroism of Russian soldiers, about the sense of life, about death. In addition, the wounded soldiers were deeply damaged by the wounded soldiers, and they started to practice medicine, which resulted in a two-volume edition of “Medical Conversations”.

In 1878, L. M. Chichagov mausoleum of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt, the great luminary of the Russian land. That virishiv a number of life meals, which praised yogi, and z tih fir becoming yomu spiritual mentor.

April 8, 1879, Leonid, at the age of 23 years, tying his beloved bonds with Natalia Mikolayivna Dokhturova, daughter of a chamberlain. As if to be Orthodox, Leonid tried to vibudovuvat stosunki in sim'ї on the basis of Christian morality and morality, so that the morality of wines should be given to his daughters.

At Vіtsі thirty chotiroh rokіv, nespodіvono for otochuyuchih, vіrіshiv deprive military service that having sounded firmly bajannya to dedicate your life away to the service of God, having become an Orthodox priest. Tsya novelty made the relatives go crazy, did not spy on the sim's. The team of Leonid Mikhailovich, who was passionately loved, repaired the will of the person. Їy, svіtskіy zhіntsi, scho for a long time already sounded to the way of aristocratic life, it was very important to show yourself in the role of a hit. Tim is more, that the appointment of the aristocracy to the clergy was often expressed in the minds of the unknown.

However, Leonid knew the truth of the decision: he turned for help to Archpriest John of Kronstadt, who was blessed, and blessed him for the feat of priestly service. That righteous pastor was especially attentive to Natalia Mykolaivna and knew the words to the heart of the word, having broken the opir of the Providence of God and accepting the choice of a person. Zreshtoy, she gave her favor.

On April 15, 1890, the fate of Leonid Chichagov was taken to the office, after which he moved from his family to Moscow at once. At the booth on Ostrozhentsi, 37, where the bag is I. Turgenev, the stench has lived three lives. The very same Leonid engaged in serious research in theological sciences. In 1893, on the 26th of the fierce, he was hanging at the deacon, and two days later, on the 28th of the fierce, at the rank of priest.

The first time of the pastoral service of Father Leonid, having fallen from a heavy ailment of the squad, after that mother Natalia died. Yshov 1895 rec. Father Leonid moved his body to Divєєvo, and it was out of the land on the monastic tsvintary.

Three years later, after that, like a father of widows, he took blackness. The same wine took away the new name Seraphim, in honor of his patron, the great holy land of Rus, Seraphim of Sarov. At that hour, the daughters grew older, the eldest was already 18 years old.

In 1898, Father Seraphim was appointed to serve in the Holy Trinity Lavra in Sergiev Posad. It is necessary to say that the young women with the brothers of the monastery did not form the best rank. A recent aristocrat, a representative of the greater society, who did not have a serious black tale, called out to the inhabitants, richly from such a small common people, distrusted and gave himself up as a holy fool.

Through the rivers, with the efforts of close friends, a new confession sank into the distance. As a result, Father Seraphim moved to the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiyev monastery. On 14 September 1899, by decree of the Holy Synod, he was appointed rector, with the upcoming consecration to the rank of archimandrite.

Here, the Crimean vikonnanny of the monastic rites, for the orders of the authorities of the wines, was engaged in the preparation of documents, the necessary canonization of Seraphim of Sarov, and in 1903 the fate of you was given the right to perform the ceremonial of the future canonization with the participation of the clarion. It is necessary to say that the wine got into it without a hitch: the urochist ceremony passed without a hitch.

On the 14th of fierce 1904, Father Seraphim took off the appointment of the rector of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. And at the date of 1904, the date of hanging on the Bishop of Sukhumi.

The fates passed, the hour of terrible social shocks, moral trials and catastrophes came: the revolution of 1917 was approaching the fate of Lyutnev and after it - Zhovtnev. During this period, Saint Seraphim served, by the will of God, successively at several dioceses, and at Sukhum, Orly, Chisinau, Tver.

In the wake of the archpastor's service and pragmatic victories over the long distance, Fr. One of the most important directions yogo activity was a struggle against Omani, Jessyu, sectarianism.

Natomist, as historians say, youmu did not get away with such a good pardon. So, while in Chisinau, Father Seraphim, choking on the heat of political turmoil, adopted the ideas of the followers of the "Union of the Russian People" and joined to the yoga of the natives. Tim the hour of this rush to replace the distinguished Russian monarchy, discrediting it.

Ni Lyutnev, ni Zhovtnev revolution did not know the words of the bishop's heart. Nezabar zusilly fortune tellers of the hundred hundred percent new representatives of the clergy, for the help of the greater power of the wines from the Tver province.

Pragnatii honoring the saint in the event of a possible reprisal, Holy Patriarch Tikhin passed a decision at the meetings of the Holy Synod about his appointment to the Warsaw and Privyslensky cathedra. Prote gromadyanska, and then the Radyansko-Polish war, which flared up, blasted the way to Poland with fronts and blasted the saint’s path to the city of yogic recognition technically impossibly. Vіn zalishivsya in Moscow. Here yogo was seen by relatives and loved ones.

In 1921, the Holy Hierarch Seraphim was arrested and imprisoned in the Taganskaya Vyaznitsa, having lost more than 1922 in the rotation. Then they called again in wickedness against Vlady Radyansky and condemned him to exile in the Arkhangelsk region, de vin provіv close to fate.

After the return from the missus, the archpastor zupinivsya in Moscow. After a non-trivial hour, at the end of 1924, he was arrested again, ringing in the organization of urochistas in honor of the glorification of Seraphim of Sarov in 1903.

Through the efforts of Patriarch Tikhon, St. Seraphim, the wines were filled, but in Moscow there was not a moment to run out of wines. In addition, as Yoma was encouraged to settle in the Seraphim-Divievskiy Monastery, wines, rozdratovaniya, having gone to the village of Shui, de Yogoi was accepted with hospitality to the Resurrection Feodorovskiy Monastery.

In 1927, Holy Hierarch Seraphim, heartily saying goodbye to the ascetics, violating the new service: Metropolitan Sergius, who spoke out of the same declaration, often supported the sovereign power, and needed the help of his comrades-in-arms. On the spring of 1928, a martyr, already like the Metropolitan of Leningrad and Gdov, turning to his native place.

Worthy of recognition, that I support Metropolitan Sergius, I do not support it blindly and blindly, as if I do not support the sovereign policy, I direct it against God and Yogi the Church.

It should be noted that St. Seraphim dratuvav svitsku power like his zealous appointments to Orthodox worship, to a wide sermon, which was sometimes recognized for anti-radian propaganda. 1932 was marked by a massive arrest of clergy, including Chernets. On the smoldering negative stage of power up to the priesthood, there was a threat and the presence of Vladyka Seraphim. At that hour, healthy Yogo was kidnapped. All the listed factors at once caused the saint to be sent to rest. Tse became at Zhovtni 1933 fate.

Nastav crooked 1937 rec. Vladik was imprisoned at Veresni in the morning and in the morning. They did not spare him old age - you were 82 years old. In honor of those who were imprisoned and could not walk independently, they carried him on burdens, and then, in a help car, they transported him to the Taganskaya yard. On the 11th of December, after the NKVS trio, yoga was shot at the Butovo training ground, which became famous.

They affirm that the day of the death of St. Seraphim was prophesied to you by the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, in the words: “Remember the day of the three saints.” On this day, Saint Seraphim prepared himself until death. It must be remembered that Vladika is not only a true warrior of Christ, a martyr for the faith, but like a right officer: not shirking his head in front of the kata, not sullying the honor of Christian and archpastoral honour.

Troparion to Hieromartyr Seraphim, Tone 5

The army of the King of Heaven / having loved more than the earth, / the servant of the half-moons of the Holy Trinity appeared to you, / put the Kronstadt shepherd in your heart, folding, / given the sight of God a different gift / multiplying the people of God to the crust, / teacher of piety / / wait for the blood having been vouchsafed to you, / Hieromartyr Seraphim, / pray to Christ God // to save our souls.

Kontakion to Hieromartyr Seraphim, Tone 6

To the Sarov wonderworkers, the thesis is named buv, / the warmth of love until the new mother, / with your writings, deeds and miracles of that world, / virnі to the yogo glorification of the soul / and vdyachnogo vіdvіduvannya / the most reverend thou art worthy. / Behind him, Hieromartyr Seraphim, / settling in heavenly devils, / pray to Christ God // Seraphim joys become partakers for us.

Among the host of New Martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov) occupies a special place, less than one in power. This miraculous peculiarity was depicted in the history of the widows in different ways: a noble Russian aristocrat; gleaming guards officer; pious Orthodox layman; ancient parish priest; self-confessed monastic abbot; a talented church writer and, nareshti, strict, ale dbailivy archivist ... In the history of Russian holiness, St. Seraphim uvіyshov, first for everything, like a male companion, who crowned his archpastoral service and his sacrosanct martyr's feat of Christ.

Hieromartyr Seraphim (Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov) was born on September 9, 1856. near St. Petersburg, in the sim'ї of an artillery colonel, who lay down to one of the famous noble canopies in old Russia. Inheriting family tradition, young Leonid Chichagov, after many years of education at the First St. Petersburg High School, in 1870. joining the Pazhsky Yogi of the Imperial Majesty Corps, de zdobucha glisten at the hour of the military and the sacred illumination.

Russian-Turkish war that began in 1876. and was accompanied by all-Slovak patriotic celebrations, L.M. Chichagov, at that time a young guards lieutenant, at the warehouse of the young army in the Balkans.

Having appeared as a active participant in all the main events of the bloody war, the future saint deeply experienced richly the felicitous meals of the human butt. The theme of the spiritual sense of life and death, the theme of the moral sense of suffering and self-confidence, which was revealed to him at the exploits of the Russian warriors, as if they respected their souls for brothers-words, nareshti, the theme of fiery sacrificial love to their neighbors uniforms, and under soldier's overcoats - these became the most important spontaneous causes of serious religious thoughts of the future holy martyr.

In 1878 p. I was famous and richly scho vyrishila ahead of the day in the distant life of L.M. Chichagova zustrіch yogo with the great pastor of the Russian Church of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt, who virіshiv mayzhe all the moral and religious nourishment that tormented the young officer, and becoming for him an unparalleled spiritual authority.

The curtains of advancing fate 23rd lieutenant Leonid Chichagov made friends with the daughter of the chamberlain of the Court of St. John the Imperial Majesty Natalia Mikolayivna Dokhturova. It would have been better if the share of that gleaming Russian aristocrat was already insane. Ale Nі succinny seewhone (L. in 1882 r. Headquarters-Kapіtan L.M. Chichagov Bouvdovniy 10 Rosіyskiya O. Kuvdivіv), NІ SIMEYNA Zhittya, Scho safely warehouse, NІ NAUKova Robot Z VIYSKOVOY TAORIA the author of the fundamental two-volume practice of phytotherapy "Medical conversations"), nothing could satisfy the soul that whispered to the greater sense.

34 years L.M. Chichagov, at the rank of guards captain, is sent to the office of the blessing of St. John of Kronstadt began to prepare for pastoral service.

February 26, 1893 in the Moscow Synodal Church of the Twelve Apostles of the future saint, he was hanged at the rank of deacon, and after 2 days at the same church - at the rank of priest. The experience of the first fate of the priestly service of Father Leonid, who was tied up with a native Viysk-aristocratic middle and with a psychologically foldable entrance to the unknown mind of the clergy, was succumbing to the unbearable heavy ailment of the squad, mother Natalia, like a prize. Chotiri's daughters were left without a priest, the eldest of them was 15 years old, and the youngest - 9 years old. Ale o. Leonid, without becoming confused and angry: to know spiritually and morally supportive of faults, on the one hand, in conjunction with his spiritual mentor, St. Righteous John of Kronstadt, and later - at the work over the folds of the "Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diviev Monastery", which revealed to you not only the history of one of the miraculous black monasteries of Russia, but the black feats of one of the greatest ascetic.

Spring 1898. became an hour of praise for Fr. Leonid Chichagov of the residual decision about a further share. Having abandoned their daughters, they grew up under the guardianship of trusted osibs, took off the post of the Viysk-Marine spiritual administration, becoming a clergyman, and a bit of the same rock of insurance to the brotherhood of the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra. When tonsured into the mantle of Fr. Leonida was named after Seraphim.

By Nezabar, Hieromonk Seraphim (Chichagov), by decree of the Holy Synod, was recognized as rector of the Suzdal Spaso-Evtimiev Monastery with the rank of archimandrite. Regardless of those that the rector's service meant borderline self-confidence, Archimandrite Seraphim, knowing the time and strength to continue the preparation of the canonization of St. a miraculous akathist to the reverend.

April 28, 1905 in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Moscow Kremlin, the future Hieromartyr Metropolitan Volodymyr (Bogoyavlensky) of Moscow, at the service of two bishops, consecrated the consecration of another future Hieromartyr, Archimandrite Seraphim (Chichagov) as Bishop of Sumy. “I don’t see the bishop’s obedience and commemorate the rank of mourning,” St. Seraphim said at the word with his name as a bishop, “let the bishops not first for everything, saying Jesus Christ in the person of His Apostles: you carry the light, I have chosen the light, for whose sake the world will hate you" (Jv. 6:33)?"

The mourning and folding of the archpastoral service of Vladyka Seraphim began, which fell on the era of revolutionary unrest, internal church negativity and the highest persecution of the right followers of Christ.

At the pre-revolutionary fate, the bishop, and then already the archbishop Seraphim (Chichagov), having taken the chairs of Sukhumsk, Orlovsk, Kishinivsk, Naresht, and Tverska through the throne.

Having become an authoritative Orthodox theologian, cultivating his spiritual self-enlightenment, having become steadily more dignified, St. Seraphim used to be one of the most principled and firm in the nourishment of that church policy of the archivists. If a saster of the clergy is wained to penetrate Lіberalna Baiduzhіst, Scho Rosegіjdaє yo found, Relіigіjna, Issue, Vladika Seraphim, an active participant of the "Union of Rosіyskiy people", zdiyalnіstyy Vіn vs'yuzuvyuv's Nadia Packagona Stramko omnouncing. With all the wines of rozumіv, scho alone only ovnіshnіshnіpolitіchnі come not zdatnі zlіliti zanedbanu ailments. As a spiritual child of the great prayer book, St. Righteous John of Kronstadt, St. Seraphim was a bachelor in the wake of the evil ones, including those of the best, in the rebirth of true Christian spirituality, a legacy of all social and political catastrophes. “Pray without ceasing,” is the axis of the commandment of the Apostle and was given not only to the priests, but to the pastors and all Christians, - the hierarch shouted ...

Such a position of the Archpastor of Tver became the reason why, in the wake of Zhovtnevy's coup d'état, he was the first victim of the blues-nir serpent of the clergy with the god-fighting power, since from the first day of his foundation he did not take his Serious Morok "non-saint" to him. December 28, 1917 Virospovidnytskyy served the Tver Gubernimsky Konkom For the sake of the robotic, peasant and soldier deputies, having seen the order about the hanging of Archbishop Seraphim from the Tverskoy province.

I know about the hatred of Bіlshovikіv before St. Seraphima І Bajayuchi Vesheti Yoy Vіd Viochinno, Svyatskiy Patroarh Tikhіn for Kilka Dnіv to Rowing Pomesny Cathedral of Rosіyskoy Orthodoxy Church Vstigi Milkiyi on Square Sacred Synod Rishennia about acknowledged Vladiki Seraphim on Warsawski, Vіdyda Radyantsojo. Ale sho grew up Gromadyanskaya war And the Radian-Polish war, which began without warning, made it impossible for the saint to enter his entrusted diocese.

Tim for an hour, after all absolutely fantastic for their stupid ringing, 24 worms, 1921. not suspecting anything about the insecurity that she threatened you, already known in the world politics, Vladik Seraphim, the first of his acknowledgments of life of official ceremonies, acceptances at the ship’s meetings, which took place without his presence. VChK and praising "put the hulk Chichagov in the Arkhangelsk kontstabir in a row for two years." І less at zv'azku z old age and in the edge of a sickly camp of health, aggravated to the concentration camp, it was replaced by sent to the Arkhangelsk region.

After the termination of the term of the message, Saint Seraphim turned to Moscow, as at the call for the arrest of the Holy Patriarch Tikhon and Timchas's slaughter of the new Church Administration was going through a period of internal church turmoil. Vladika Seraphim, having entered into a prayer-Evcharist meeting with these hierarchs, as if he had reached the most important church line, which was going out of the spiritual line of innovations. This was the reason for the new arrest, the hanging from the capital and the greater lower trieric adoption of Metropolitan Seraphim for church rights.

After the untrimmed persecution of the archpastor, the archpastor knew for himself the timchas's porch at the Resurrection Fedorovsky Monastery. Here, Vladika Seraphim, having continued the work on another part of the "Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diviev Monastery", was not admitted to another by censorship before the revolution, but was forfeited for an hour by the Chekists. At the same time, the saint’s deep reflections began about the shares of the Church in Russia and the paths of his powerful church service.

As a result of these thoughts, the wise, already 70-year-old, archpastor was more reconsidered in that, on the fatal frontier of Russian Church history, not marveling at the collapse of the colossal statehood, patronizing Orthodoxy, the Church is obliged to serve in all possible ways. for the revelation of the good news of Christ's Truth.

I St. Seraphim boldly cultivated his residual spiritual vibe, standing on the other side of the church hierarchy, as if he recognized Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) as the only lawful successor of the Patriarchal Laureate, zealous for his own canons. The support of such an authoritative bishop, guided by his firmness and uncompromisingness, like St. Seraphim, was superimportant for Metropolitan Sergius, who at that hour, opponents from among the bishops, unprimed, were condemned for unacceptable deeds of sovereign power. And it’s even more ostentatious that Metropolitan Seraphim, when it became possible, was brought to the warehouse of the Timchas Patriarchal Holy Synod and placed on the Leningrad cathedra, where at that time the greatest internal church chvari were panned. The church life of the Leningrad diocese was swamped with two extreme currents: on one side - with viral changes; from the other side - by the implacable Metropolitan Josip (Petrovikh), a kind of pishov at the split. Whose wine was broken on the basis of the church turmoil, in which the apocalyptic roman stage of Russian church history was overwhelmed: the collapse of Orthodox sovereignty without intermediary appeared with the last share of the earthly Church, and also, with the world as a whole.

Leaning on such folded minds, St. Seraphim began to conduct a wise church policy, directing the unity and peace among the diocesan clergy and laity. Vіn having seen that the successes of this policy will inevitably lead him to new zіtknen іz godless power, zatsіkavlenoyu vnutrіshnetserkovnyh rozbratah. Tim is no less, the Metropolitan of Leningrad was far away, avoiding provocations, both from the side of the novices, and from the side of the extreme successors of Metropolitan Josip, to round up the absolute majority of the believers, turning the rich of them to the canonical union of the legal church.

In 1933 The 77-year-old Saint Seraphim, who gave all his strength to the archpastoral service at the link with the heavy camp of health and looking at the ever-growing hatred of the new sovereign power, which robbed him of the new arrest, bvlneniy on the calm. The providence of God gave his faithful servant a sliver of fate the call of a peaceful life, so that he could prepare himself for his last and most important feat - martyrdom for Christ.

After returning to Moscow and a short-hour residence in the residence of Metropolitan Sergius, in 1934. Vladika Seraphim knew of his own remaining backyard at the zamіsky dacha, which was near the station of Pitoma. From his recognition in the silence of the countryside, Vladik saw the richness of his co-workers, realizing the spiritual significance of what is happening, and bachiv, that the preparations for the Christians of the world are not yet suffering. In the church itself, St. Seraphim entreated his spiritual children with prophetic hundred percent of his share with the words: "Whoever is deprived of the faith of the Holy Apostolic Church at once - that will be vryatovaniya ... At once richly who suffers for faith, but then - gold is purified in the spiritual crucible of testing."

At the leaf fall of 1937, which had become fatal for the wealthy of our spivtchiznikiv, the 81-year-old Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov) was arrested by the NKVS spivrobitniks. Through the impossibility of being transported in a prisoner's car, the saint was taken to the Taganskaya camp in a "Swedish assistance" car. The terrible death of Vladyka was already seen in advance, but the new persecutors of the Church wanted to achieve not only the physical humiliation of the virnogo and the born son, but also the evil of yogo mіtsniy and the male spirit, zmusiti yogo indmovityas in his own morality.

Kilka tizhniv is physically shameless, the old man, having died, with the greatness of the first Christian martyr, standing up to the very inflexible and crazy ringing, and not recognizing what was desired from them. 7 breast 1937 The "troika" of the NKVS near the Moscow Region praised the decree about the shooting of Metropolitan Seraphim. 4 days later, 11 December 1937. tsey virok buv vykonany near the village of Putovo, which is located not far from Moscow, in a way that the oak forest was surrounded by a deaf parkan, becoming a tsvintar of thousands of innocent victims of the anti-Christian regime. Having lived through all the years of his tragic epoch and having completed his heroic feat with a terrible, but noble death, Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), having become the volodar of priceless eternal belongings, having broken all his life to the point of guilt. “All people,” the saint wrote in his hour to one of his spiritual children, “it’s impossible, so that the sea of ​​\u200b\u200blife does not drink its litter, the mud does not cry out its names and cim is not cleansed of the depths of the whole element ... Do not fight this evil it is possible to avoid it as much as possible, so that it does not speak the truth of God ... So, it is greedy for its manifestations, but it’s unfortunate for you, it’s like you are rooting for it, even if we don’t hear the truth and hear reasonable people, that’s why ... So the facts do not turn us out of life, then, from the path of truth and goodness, it’s not our fault to beat us up, who at times the power of evil reveals their earthly power. The more we are occupied with inner prayer, the more wiser, more sensible and the more our life has begun to shine, and the heart, which pierces the earth and brings us closer to the Invisible Heaven.

 

“Do not say that you love God and joke about the Kingdom of Yogo, as if, throwing lies, you will guess about the right things and troubles, and then say to God for the past nothing and a day that has come! You don’t change anyone, that you live the truth, if you first win over your thoughts, and then ask God to help that success!

Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov

With Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov, having known me... Christ. Barefoot, at the tunic, with outstretched arms for the arms of Vіn zustrіchav - that and this year's zustrіchaє - usіh, to enter the temple of the Prophet Іllі in Obidensky provulk. If I first crossed the threshold of the church, then so I caught the white of the door, unable to see the New Eye. What is an icon? I haven’t had such a thing anywhere, ”I asked a thin summer woman behind a candle box. “Having written this image, Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov, – vіdpovila won. “We have another yoga icon at our temple – the prayer service of St. Seraphim of Sarov.”

I already knew about Seraphim of Sarov. About Seraphim Chichagov chula uppershe. That zvіdki? So, in the middle of the 80s, knowing the Bible was a problem, but tell me about that metropolitan artist ...

“Why did you write the name of St. Seraphim yourself?” - I finished drinking at the woman behind the box. “Thus the zavdyaks yoma canonized the reverend.” The service began and it became difficult to continue Rozmov. Yakby, I also knew that Varvara Vasilivna Chorna-Chichagova, a scientist-chemist with light names, a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, was teaching me…

"Take all the information about the new one and remember it, the living image in the memory of the Russian people has become the main method of my life," she said afterwards.

Ale first, the article about the thought of being seen by the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchy” is only through the chotiri rocks ...

Break through the light - to the light

A photocopy of the book of Metropolitan Seraphim "Chronicle of the Seraphim-Divії Monastery" was far enough to complete quickly, and the axis of other work - two volumes of "Medical conversations", "About the regeneration of parafial life", "What is the basis of skin science", "Valor of the Russian military" publish less than 10 years. But at that hour, I already know about the new one to finish the bagato.

Hereditary soldier, graduate of the Corps of Pages, having built up a glittering military career, he was rewarded with some twelve, some fourteen orders, wines in 1890 were not awarded for all viishov at the entrance. Few people knew that, just twelve years before that, the son of Father John of Kronstadt turned the certificate of an artillery officer upside down. And all these years, having learned theology and medicine, and pishovshi at the post office, having gone to Moscow and becoming seriously prepared to take the priesthood, wanting at that hour the new one already had four children, and the team of the navydrez was tempted to turn over to the panorama of the capital city .

Ale, in 1893, nevertheless, having taken the dignity of wine, and two years later, he was widowed, and in addition, he became a widow of Seraphim-Divievskiy chronicle. And then, Chichagov - the same father Leonid - received an audience from the sovereign and handed over to him the book that prokhannya to help the canonization of the Sarov ascetic. Well, following the order of the emperor and the appointees of the Synod, I was instructed to prepare the canonization. At that time, I had already accepted chernets and baptism to the brotherhood of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

We will soon be richly appointed, until in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, yoga was consecrated to the bishop. “If (…) there was evidence in me that the Lord Himself would help me in such a change in the path for the sake of Yogo Divine purposes, which is necessary for all my future life, for the recognition of less test and sorrows, for my rotting to Christ, - then, without respect, on the way, put to me by the light, I vykonav holy obedience, ”saying wine at his consecration.

The fight against baiduzhistyu

Orlovsky, Kishinivska, Tverska department ... Even in Orl, Vlad Seraphim understood: if there is no normal parafial life, a catastrophe is imminent.

“In my reconciliation, it was necessary to carry out all the reforms, almost from the restoration of paraphias, more, until the people’s suspense morality is improved and our life will not be more comfortable with faith, the day of freedom, new legalized reforms will not be brought to a good result and prosperity. Without the improvement of morality, the testing, sent by the Lord, cannot end, and spiritual renewal cannot begin. Spiritually reviving Russia can only be done by this path, as if it were a spiritual people, - writing wine. - Baiduzhіst, vіdsutnіst zeal for faith - the axis scho is the most lakaє!

Sob the yogo eparchy lived on the full life of Vladik Seraphim, supporting the opir not only of the secular bulk, but also the richness of the priests, having begun the church-paraffial parade. And also, having expanded the spiritual literature, she conducted conferences among the… clergy.

“If you misread: if someone read the works of Bishop Ignaty Bryanchaninov and Theophanes the Recluse, then a worthless vіdsotok will appear (...) Undoubtedly, the clergy are far away from the bіk from the direct heads of the yogo ring. And it’s not less than that, in order to escape the sumptuous ability to become a miserable world of guilt, to say goodbye to our laziness, apathy and baiduzhistyu, almost to cackle with ripe food for the hour; it is our duty to slyly listen to them, to listen to them with the clear exchange of Christ's vchennya and in this way to please the natural sustenance of our parathians, as if they will peep us from authoritative curiosity in spiritual life, ”stverzhuv vn.

And more: “Having poured into the people to lie, in order that the clergy would read it in word or in deed.”

In the country, which is drawn into the pre-revolutionary turmoil, Vladika Seraphim literally shouted: “I’ll be alarmed, I’ll start the most recent resurrection of the parafial life ...

“I’m sorry, I’m going to sit for the whole hour at the bells and whistles”

If the First Light began, I started organizing hospitals, sanitary services, helped the refugees, collecting donations for the wounded. In the fierce year of 1916, he was taken away as a member of the Sovereign for the sake of the black clergy.

And at the quarter of 1917, the yak of a “church morocabo and black-hundred monarchist” was called from the Tver department and - already for the Bolsheviks, among the chest - they hung from the Tver province. In the same way, after the Shvidkoy, he defeated Vladik Seraphim by vryatuvav Patriarch Tikhon: a few days before the dissolution of the Pomіsny Cathedral, the Synod succeeded in confirming the recognition of the disgraced bishop to the Warsaw cathedra, as a bula in the territory of Vilna in Poland. Vladik Seraphim no longer sighed from only a little vihati there - they simply did not let him in.

Until 1921, the fate of the wine was alive at the Chernigiv skete of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. At the beginning of 1922, the patriarch sang yogo at the rank of metropolitan, and on the veins of yoma in absentia they brought the first official virok: "two fates in the Arkhangelsk concentration camp." Ale was arrested for something more like spring. Vladik was seriously ill at the prison, they let him go, but then they still hung up to the Arkhangelsk region. The term vin vіdbuv, turning to Moscow, but yogo was re-arrested. Having vryatuvav again, Patriarch Tikhin - he clamored for Vladik in the OGPU, and after a few months they let him go, but from Moscow they punished vikhati.

“From that moment, if I already remembered, I knew that I could be incomprehensible, that I would sit here all the time in the halls. Turning back to Moscow less than 1925 fate, and from that hour I was talking to him along the way. After the pilgrimage, the camp and the battle of the wines stretched for two years (1926 - 1928), having changed at the monastery under Shuye. Did my service there, vіn bv a kind musician, vіn having created a choir, having spent spіvi. I was present with whom,” said Yogo Onuka, the future first rector of the revived Novodevichy Monastery, Abbess Seraphim.

“For some reason, for some reasons, I’m not squeezing religious and spiritual authority on me: not bothering to go to church, read theological books, follow the prayer rule ... Maybe, having given me full freedom in choosing a life path in those important fates, they fell on me generation,” she wrote in her mind.

Vishcha pastor's academy

In 1928, Metropolitan Seraphim, having taken his appointment to the Leningrad cathedra, and having changed his mind until 1933, when he received his passports, he was moved to the Leningrad registration office and decided to move to Tikhvin. These were the fates of the actual smashing of the church: the parish churches were mass-curled, the greater intercessor of the patriarchal monastic guardian was left behind, Metropolitan Sergius was not reproached, black life in Leningrad was actually liquidated.

Vladik Seraphim was already in his 70s, physically strong, and, judging by the hatred of the new government, a new arrest is not far off. In 1933, the Patriarchal Synod of Timchas called for a calm, and remaining yogo, two rooms in a dacha cottage near the station Udilna near Moscow became an outpost.

Vladik lives quietly, praying, reading richly, compiling church music, painting, writing icons, never leaving the house - through the back of that hypertension of the veins, it was importantly collapsing. Ale, in his living room, having received and ієrarchiv, і friends, і spiritual children, і relatives.

Why did people gravitate so much to this German old one, arguing with such a person, she inevitably turned to herself the respect of “punishing organs”? Maybe to the one who in his own life, having confirmed his words, said long before the revolution: The greatest academy for the pastor is a tse kut, who has an icon hanging and a lampada glowing. A pastor learns from God the unchanging truths and truths, both about the right, and about future life.

And Vladika Seraphim, having learned to say about the most important thing in such a way that it became clear to the skin - about the new, and for the new: only, so that we remembered God in a deep and eternal way, everyone worked with a thought about New, and everything was repaired for the glory of God.

In the evenings, "I sat down at the harmonium - I never parted from it - and composed spiritual music, and I sat on the sofa, marveled at the new one, read it and realized the grace that it was coming out of the new one," Varvara Vasilivna Chorna-Chichagova guessed , as if she lived with him at Pytomy.

Naivazhcha science

Naturally, for a long time, this idyll in the future could not take place: the 82-year-old bishop was called in the fact that he was guilty of “carrying out a deeply sealed counter-revolutionary church activity - giving instructions before the church moved to an illegal camp,” and for example, the fall of the leaves of 1937 was reopened. And the shards of the wines were seriously ill, they delivered the yogo to the shvidka to help.

One of the witnesses on the right, showing that Metropolitan Seraphim said: I will be renewed and the Orthodox faith will be overcome.”

On December 7, 1937, the trike of the NKVS in the Moscow Region adopted a decree on the shooting of Metropolitan Seraphim, and on December 11, at the Butovo firing range, the vikonans were fired. The closest relatives didn’t know the date, the month of the funeral.

Ale was deprived of saving yoga by the spiritual children of the words of Vladyka: “The gospel and life of the gospel is the most important science, like St. the fathers called the science of sciences. It is not possible for a representative of the science of science to take a day in life, for it is only possible to understand the fullness of that depth of Divine revelation.

Right ascetics of the faith shone at the fates of important trials for the Orthodox Church and the Christian spirit in the Russian land. People similar to Hieromartyr Seraphim Chichagov served as an example of steadfastness and humility. The activity of Metropolitan Seraphim brought peace to the Christian souls and the sum'yattya in the heart of the persecutors.

Biography

Metropolitan Seraphim is a unique specialty, he had the best images of an illumined aristocrat and a deeply religious Orthodox Christian. All yoga and ecclesiastical activities were directed to help needy people and those who defend Orthodoxy.

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The future saint was born in 1856. at this family's descendants of the Viysk Chichagovs. Yogo Batko Mikhailo Nikiforovich received the rank of Colonel of Artillery. Representatives of the noble family multiplied the glory of this Motherland on the field of Viysk, and did their last duty near the drinking waters.

Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov

Little Leonid was christened in one of the parish churches in the Russian capital. At the decimal vіtsі vіn, having infiltrated the father, the alemata - Maria Mykolaivna - wove her children from the soul of family traditions, which stunned yoga vibіr military kar'єri.

The boy was sanctified at the First St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium. From 1870 to 1875 r.b. started at the Page Corps. After the completion of the prestigious initial mortgage among the nobles, the young man will take the military rank of lieutenant and break up to the fiery army. At one time I became a hearing officer of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy.

Viysk service

Leonid Mikhailovich's Viysk's car was rozpochalas at the 1st film-artillery brigade. Until the beginning of the Russian-Turkish war of wine, having changed from the rank of lieutenant. Under the hour of the military days, having shown himself a good man and a brave warrior, for which he took away the impersonal Russian and foreign cities. Talanovitiy aristocrat shvidko pіdnіmavsya kar'єrnimi descents, having risen to 35 years to the rank of colonel.

The brilliant officer showed himself not only in the military field, but also in the field of science and literature. Vіn prepared for the other the biographies of his famous relatives of the admirals, as well as the fundamental practice of "Medical conversations", as a way to explain his progress in the gallery juicy herbs. Before the writing of the Pratsi Yogo, terrible pictures of human suffering near the fate of the war in the Balkans were prompted.

Cob of Spiritual Way

Having survived the wars, Leonid zrozumiv, that the war kar'єra is tight on yoga. Vіn becoming zamislyuvatisya about the possibility of accepting spiritual path. I shared these thoughts with my confessor - Father John Sergiev, we remember in the history of Orthodoxy under the name of John of Kronstadt. The priest blessed the person to take the rank of priest.

At 1890 p. Colonel Chichagov pishov at the post office and moved at once from his family to Moscow. This decision was ambiguously accepted by the closest relatives. The druzhina, born Natalia Mykolaivna Dokhturova, was lucky enough to encourage a person only after the door of John of Kronstadt, which rose, that Leonid Mikhailovich checks a great share.

Life icon of St. Seraphim Chichagin

For 3 years, a person independently developed theological sciences and was preparing to take the rank. Dovgoochіkuvana pod_ya vіdbulasya in the fierce 1893 r. The joy was overshadowed by the heavy ailment of mother Natalia. Vaughn died on the cob 1895 Father Leonid brought his body to the Divіїvsk monastery and buried it with the blessing of the abbot at the holy church. At this hour of the year, having become the most frequent witness of the holy mass.

In 1896 p. Father Leonid became the rector of the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker near Stary Vagankovo. The empty church is small, stretching for 30 years and resting at the drowsy camp. On the vlasni koshti, the priest recreated the budinok, part of the internal paintings, which he made with his own hands.

Tsikavo! At the same time, he took up writing spiritual music and proceeded to the main practice of his life - the compilation of the “Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diviev Monastery”.

“Chronicle” was written under the enemy in the name of the blessed old woman Pasha, who was especially known from the miracle worker of Sarov. Vaughn conveyed the priestly words of the Divievsk successor about the need to fuss before the sovereign about the resurrection of his relics and glorification. Priest Leonid Virishiv, that Emperor Mikolay, who was a great lover of spiritual literature, unanimously appreciate this practice and praise the decision about the canonization of the venerable man.

Monasticism

A detailed acquaintance with the life of the Reverend Father Seraphim of Sarov prompted the priest to accept ionic service. In 1898, after taking the tonsure of that name Seraphim, a man joined the Trinity-Sergiev black bulk.

Nezabar Yogo Bulo was recognized as the rector of the Suzdal Euphemia Monastery and was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Vіn zaynyavsya vіdnovlennyam old cloister that in parallel vykonuvav vykonuvav'yazki deanery monastic volodynnya Volodymyrskoy єparkhії.

Seraphim Chichagin was rector of the Spaso-Evfimiev monastery

One of the most important occasions in the life of Father Seraphim is the preparation of the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov. After the impersonal necessary procedures and the lively controversy, the Holy Synod was praised for the decision to canonize the founder of the Divivsky Monastery. The rector of the St. Euphemia Monastery was entrusted with the preparation of the tracts of the entrances, which came out in the middle of the lime tree 1903. Vіn preparing a report ceremonial of the discovery of relics and writing the life of a holy man.

Tsikavo: St. Seraphim Chichagov guessed that one time after the radio support to you, the Sarov miracle worker appeared and yakuvav for yoga. Having asked the saint of God, what wine you can give to your brother-in-law, having taken away the prohannya from the old man, entrust him to the old man, smiling kindly and sign. Tsya podіya richly in which she signified a share of chents away.

Archbishop's service

In 1904 p. Archimandrite Seraphim was appointed the head of the Resurrection Novo-Yerusalim staurope monastery. On tsіy posadі vіn buv protyazh rock.

For example, April 1905 Vіn buv consecrations to the bishop and to the administrations for serving at the Sukhumi department. Vіn having accepted Iverska land in important hour revolutionary pidyom, if the currents of heretics and atheists have gained strength.

The bishop, having reported to the rich, susil for the confrontation with him, that cleansing of the church rows. This important position impressed the members of the Holy Synod. Through the rіk, the associate was placed on the choli of the Oryol and Sіvsk departments. The clergyman of the parish reported richly zusil for the renewal of spiritual life in all parishes entrusted to him by the eparchy.

Vіn vvazhav, that the basis of a stable єparchial life is the development of parafial communities, yakі may vikonuvat not only spiritual and administrative-government functions, but also the nurturing of the educational, social and moral character.

Important! Father Seraphim led the bishops and diocesan clergymen to the main role in this organization, as by his sacrificial feat and active duty to replace the spirit and faith of the laity.

The active activity of the Oryol bishop became a base for him to be recognized as a member of the Holy Synod. Yogo was transferred to the Chisinau church pulpit. Arriving to Bessarabia, the bishop, having revealed the new gloom of church life, which is the culprit of the clergy's turmoil, is to try to occupy the key plantations in the diocesan hierarchy, and not to serve on trusted parishes. The archbishop, having set his mind on the offensive approaches:

• the creation of that zmіtsnenny parafiyalnyh bulks;
• reviving the tradition of solemn liturgical life among the clergy;
• church enlightenment of the laity and the clergy.

In 1912 Merits of the Bishop of Chisinau were recognized by the head of state, with the permission of Father Seraphim Chichagov, he took the rank of archbishop.

The active priest took a part in the suspense-political life of the country. Yoga nobility community activity. Z 1905 he was an active participant in the Russian Conquest - the oldest monarchical organization of the Russian Empire.

In 1912 Seraphim Chichagin took the rank of archbishop

At the birch, 1914 Archbishop Seraphim Chichagov upholstered the head of the Diocese of Tver and Kashin. I prayed for the victory of the Russian warriors at the rock of the First Holy War, organizing hospitals for wounded soldiers, shelters for orphaned children. Revolutionary podії 1917 buli zustrіnuti єparhialnym head negatively.

Ale, having been left with a prihilnik of a strictly ієrarchіchny pіdorderkuvannya, vіn podkorivsya to the decision of the Holy Synod, which supported Timchas' order. The position of the Tverskoy hierarch established the opposite new power, for the convergence of these, the participants in the eparchial z'ezd took the decision to put Father Seraphim in charge of the administration of the eparchy.

The decision was made with a minimum majority of votes, with which the thought of the members of 34 black communities of the eparchy was not protected, as if one-flock supported the bishop. The synod continued to honor the associate as the true head of the parish, and after the Bolshoi coup, the Tver council of workers and village deputies made a decision about the hanging of the archbishop from the Tver land.

On the cob 1918 Archbishop Seraphim Chichagov was appointed head of the Warsaw Orthodox Diocese to the rank of Metropolitan. However, the political situation of that Vijska made the saint vikhati in the place of a new confession. I settled at the Chernigiv skete, which was laid out nearby the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Vladika is quietly alive near Moscow city until 1921. Ale vіn bv nadto an important person and a significant figure in the church ієrarchії, sob to escape the radian reprisals. The opposite Bulo was fabricated by the criminal right, as a priest they called at the potential anti-radian propaganda at the time of the way to the Warsaw cathedra.

The Metropolitan of Veresny had rooms up to the Taganskaya v'yaznitsa. Yogo's daughters asked for a share of the old chentz to be saved. Yogo was admitted in 1922, but later at the quarter they again arrested her and sent her to the Arkhangelsk province.

At the quarter, 1923 the rulers were allowed to turn back to Moscow, but life near the savory savage land greatly debilitated the old man. The old man lives quietly near the capital, not taking a fate from the church and the huge podia.

Icon of the Savior, painted by Seraphim Chichagin

The new arrest is becoming a river. The old priest was called in preparation for the participation in the canonization of St. Seraphim of Sarov. Yogo was embarrassed to give a clarification about something that was twenty years old, and they caught it. For the permission of the Metropolitan, asking especially Patriarch Tikhin.

Prohannya was ignored, the priest's prote was called at the linden 1924. At one time, the us Orthodox church bishops were punished to deprive the capital of Radyansk. Father Seraphim settled at the Voskresensko-Feodorovskoye monastery of women, which was planted near the town of Shuya.

Tsikavo: resting at the remote monastery in peace, the active priest was engaged in the control of the monastery choir, writing spiritual music and holy images.

Remain the fates of life

In 1928 clergyman buv chants of the cherubati of the Leningrad cathedra. Vіn buv zvedeniy at the dignity of the metropolitan. Vladik, having acted for the recognition of the church authorities of the patriarchal monastic guardian, Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky, she called out to the end of Joseph's rozkol. The elder especially spent several weeks of services and sermons at various mіsk parishes.

Zavdyaki yoga activities until 1933 in Leningrad, only two churches were lost, as if they were supporting Metropolitan Josip. At the hour of the reign of Metropolitan Seraphim, there happened an hour of mass destruction and the closing of temples.

Zhovtni born in 1933 Vladika Seraphim bov vіdpravleny on vіdpochinok. Vin settled in Podmoskov'ї at the station Udіlna, de renting a small room at the dacha house. Behind him lived two nuns of the Resurrection Monastery of Feodorovsky, for 7 years they accompanied and helped the owner.

The rest of the priest's fates were filled with calmness, which obscured less than physical ailments. Ale shanovanny among the people could not give a calm radiant power. At the fall of the leaves 1937 Yogo was arrested for making calls from the counter-revolutionary monarchical mind. They brought the old Tagansky Vyaznytsia in a van with help, and they carried it on burdens.

The 82-year-old monk did not recognize the appropriate ringing. In the chest, yoga was sentenced to death. Virok buv vykonany 11 babies on sumnozvіsny range in Butovo near Moscow. They buried the saint right there at the unknown grave.

Canonization and memory

At the river of svyatkuvannya tysyacholіttya baptism of Russia from father Seraphim, all the calls were taken, because of the rehab. After the fall of the Radiant regime of the onuk of the saint - Varvara Vasilivna, who was born in 1994. she took black tonsure under the name of Seraphim, and was engaged in the preparation of material for his canonization.

After 50 years after the martyr's death, one of the most famous archpriests in the Russian church was buried at the beginning of the 20th century before the saints. Vidpovidne decision was praised by the Cathedral of the Archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. At once the troparion, the kondak and the iconography of the holy martyr, were solidified.

Icon of Hieromartyr Seraphim Chichagov

In the name of the Metropolitan of Petrograd, three churches were consecrated in the neighboring settlements:

• district Pivdenne Butovo (m. Moscow);
• locality Lobnya (Moscow region);
• city ​​of St. Petersburg (eparchial administration).

Practice

Seraphim Chichagov, having for his own sake lost spiritual decay. Create the basis for such a literary work:

• Archive of Admiral P. V. Chichagov;
• Student of the transfer of Emperor Alexander II from the Danube army 1877-1878;
• Medical conversations;
• Litopis of the Seraphim-Divєєvsky monastery of the Nizhny Novgorod province of the Ardatіvsky district;
• Life of the Monk Seraphim, Sarov miracle worker.

Likewise, in the house there are two icon-paintings written by the saint:

• Christ at the white tunic;
• the image of Seraphim of Sarov, who prayed to the stone.

Health system for the body

In the name of Hieromartyr Seraphim, Metropolitan of Petrograd, a system of health improvement for the body is to be introduced. Її popularizer є Kseniya Kravchenko. Vaughn insists that this system was broken up by a clergyman, like a nibito mav medical enlightenment.

But the biographies of the Metropolitan prove that an amateur is hiding behind him, who cannot be known about medicine and victorious in his robotic systemic methods that threaten the health of people. They say that "Medical talk" was a practice relevant for its time and development scientific knowledge about the human body.

Important! Theologians and physicians call people for protection and are placed before the recommendations of Mr. Kravchenko.

Hieromartyr Seraphim Chichagov is one of the most famous clergymen of the Orthodox Church. Vin buv is a firm champion of the purity of Orthodoxy and subordination to the strict hierarchical structure of the Russian Church. There is a legend that the yogo martyr's death and canonization were taken as far back as 1903, after the wedding of St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Health system according to Chichagov

Hieromartyr Metropolitan SERAPHIM (Chichagov) († 1937)

A noble Russian aristocrat and a brilliant guards officer, a military scholar, a hero of the Russian-Turkish war, as well as a writer, composer, artist, author of the original medical system, organizer of the famous “Chronicle of the Seraphim-Divії Monastery”, one of the most authoritative churches borrows a special place from the host of Russian New Martyrs. The fruits of the life of Metropolitan Seraphim were significant, that in another country a monument would be erected to him. The SRSR has been guilty of accusations and denunciations by the “enemy of the people”. Ale, having arranged everything for a month.

Walking

Metropolitan Seraphim (in the world of Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov) was born on September 9, 1856 in an aristocratic family in St. Petersburg.

The Chichagovs resembled an old Russian noble family, which belonged to the 15th century. Future Metropolitan Seraphim Bov great-grandson of the famous admiral Vasil Yakovich Chichagov (1726-1809), one of the first doslidnikiv of the Ice-cold Ocean. Died of Metropolitan Seraphim Pavlo Vasilovich Chichagov (1767-1849), tezh admiral, former first naval minister of Russia, prominent participant Vytchiznyanoi war 1812 rock. Vin wrote his memoirs, in which he spoke about his father, the pershovidkrivach of the sea way through the Pivnichniy Liodovitiy ocean, escaping America to Kamchatka, a participant in naval battles with the Swedes and the Turks.

The mother of St. Mary Mykolaivna (before the death of Zvarkovsky), was endowed with writing talent, she played the piano miraculously. She pinched love to music and to her children. Batko Mikhailo Nikiforovich received the rank of major general. Remain the fates of your life in the provinces near Kalusa, de embracing the settlement of the commandant of the city, under the sight of such a pilgrimage in the Caucasus and sending messages at once from your homeland to Kaluga Imam Shamil. Batko died in 1866, when Leonid was 10 years old. Those who especially knew Mikhail Nikiforovich for his good faith and knew the correct tone of voice with other people, bitterly mourned his death. In the middle of them is the letter and imam Shamil, with the help of that zmіg to establish important and bring trusted stosunki. Shamil was the first, who came to share the grief that spits the family of Chichagov. When the zhorstoy, unfavorable Volodar to Dagestan and Chechny, weeping, seeming: "I, I've spent everything with him! Never again will I have such a friend, who would be so understanding and so talking about me!"

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Leonid Chichagov, having obtained the sparkle of light. Like the famous ancestors, they were also assigned to go to the military part.

On the spot, I got enlightened in the First St. Petersburg classical gymnasium, and then joined the Page Corps, the most privileged aristocratic one. initial mortgage of today's Russia, as it prepared elite military personnel of the Russian Empire.

Leonid Chichagov (photo from the 70s of the 19th century)

The fates of perebuvannya in the Page Corps allowed not only to gain fundamental military and spiritual enlightenment, but also to find out about the court high light from the mustache, often with primary garlic and often covered with worldly vices. Regardless of those who, on 25 December 1874, were killed in chambers, not the court, but the military service itself became the subject of the mriy 18th young man. Through rich rocks, St. Seraphim said: "We were vihovani at the faith of Pravoslavia, and yet we went out of the corps insufficiently enlightened by the Church, for good reason, that Pravoslavia is the strength, the fortification of our kohanoi fatherland."

Viysk service

After the end of the Page Corps in 1874, the fate of Leonid Mikhailovich was insured for service to the Guards Artillery Brigade of the Preobrazhensky Regiment as an ensign. Already todі vіn divuvav comrades tim, scho dorimuvavsya postіv. In the army, according to the decree of Peter I, shyness is not obov'yazkovo.

In 1877, roci began Russian-Turkish war (1877-1878) . L.M. Chichagov near the warehouse of the rank army in the Balkans. Vіn taking part in all the main bloody battles, demonstrating special masculinity, goodness and courage. For the goodness of the hour, the oblogs of Plevni and the capture of Telish were rewarded by General Skobelyev with a special armor.

- war between the Russian Empire and the allied Balkan powers (Romania and Chornogoria) on one side, that Ottoman Empire - on the other side. Theater of fighting diy buli Balkans and Transcaucasia (Battles in Abkhazia were mainly for the defense of the main enemy forces), but the key boules of the Balkans, shards of the same for the sake of the expansion of the local population and the war was sharpened.

The meta war is an extension of the Orthodox words of the Jansk peoples - Serbs, Bulgarians, Chornogortsiv and other Balkan peoples under the Ottoman yoke. The reason for the goloshennia of the war was the zhorstok strangled by the Turkish government of the rebellion from vassal Bulgaria in 1876.

At the end of 1877, Russia announced the war of Turechchini, and the traditional Russian troops already entered the territory of Romania. The active encouragement of the Russian army by the peoples of the Balkans and the Transcaucasus raised the morale of the Russian troops, at the warehouses of which they worked the Bulgarian, Georgian and Georgian militia. After the successful exit of the Russian army to Constantinople, England and Austria got involved in the negotiation process of laying the world. Through the battle that the Russians could occupy Constantinople, England, by diplomatic tricks, stole the veil in the fierce 1878 peace treaty with Turechchina.

Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878 years

The sub-bag of the war was the liberation of Bulgaria from the 500-year Ottoman yoke, the autonomy of that expanded territory of Serbia and Chornogoria, the transition of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the rule of the Austro-Ugric region. Russia turned its own part of Bessarabia, spent after the Crimean war, and annexed the Kars region, inhabited by Virmens and Georgians. Great Britain, following an agreement with the empire of Osman, paid for Cyprus in exchange for the zahist of Turechchini in the form of a distant Russian push in Transcaucasia.

Varto designate what and until this day in Bulgaria, at the Liturgy in Orthodox churches, Oleksandr II is celebrated and all Russian warriors who perished on the battlefield for the salvation of Bulgaria Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878 rock.

In 1881, a rotation of high-qualification fakhivets for artillery was carried out to France on the maneuvers of the French troops, de-wielding the French artillery. In 1882, awards with the Cavalry Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor and the Chornogorsk Order of Danil the First, IV degree.

Having taken the fate of the virishenni pitan about the construction of the fort on the frontier cordon of Russia and the equipment of the Bulgarian army. In 1883 he was awarded the Romanian Zalizny Cross, the Bulgarian Order of St. Oleksandra III step. In 1884, awards of the Order of St. Annie II stage. Usyogo L.M. Chichagov buv rewarded with 13 cities.

Yogo's military car was pushed through successfully: ensign (1874), lieutenant (1876), lieutenant (1878), adjutant of the assistant to the general feldzeugmeister general Count A. A. Barantsov (commander of the artillery of the Russian army) (187). ), staff captain (1881). In 1890, a call was made to the post, and in 1891, in 37 years, "for matching with one-liners", carrying out at the colonel.

Literary activity

Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov served in Viysk after leaving historical and literary activity.

Before the hour of war, Leonid Mikhailovich had a chance to go through a lot. At the same time, his talent as a documentary writer is bursting forth. You write books « Student of the Tsar-Pleaser in the Danube Army in 1877". The book was seen three times and was marked sheets of podyaks members of the royal family.

But the most requested yoga practice was the book « Apply the past wars of 1877-1878" , in which there were published reports about the exploits of soldiers and officers.

Yogo was praised by the theme of the spiritual sense of life and death, the theme of the moral sense of suffering and self-confidence, which was revealed to him at the exploits of the Russian warriors, as if they believed their own for the words of the Yan brothers.

Interests in medicine

Familiarity with the zhakhs of war zmushuye yogo deeply think about suffering, life, death. Vіn having fallen asleep blessed comradeship to help the military, as if in the wake of the ailment, the bruises come out at the post office until the day of the day of the right to pension, dbav about the organization of cost-free medical assistance, orphans, whose fathers perished in the war.

The mission to help the sick and the crippled led the future bishop to a serious medical practice, especially folk medicine, based on those who seek power roslin. Without looking for special education, Leonid Mikhailovich, having developed an independent system of learning, described by him in fundamental practice "Medical conversations" How to avenge the numerical theoretical and daily practical recommendations for the brilliance of impersonal ailments. It’s even a rare change, if a person far from medicine didn’t only thoroughly cultivate these secrets, but created a practically new one directly with them. This poor library began to popovnyuvatisya medical books, all herbalists. historical achievements. And right after the end of the war with the Turks, the staff captain began to intensively train medicine at the St. Petersburg University. So, the classic modern methods of treating you were kindly known, but having found a better way to help your patients, of which there were about 20 thousand, there were a lot of middle ones, and other doctors took care of them.

Shlub

In 1879, Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov made friends with Natalia Mikolayivna Dokhturova, Donka Chamberlain of the Court of Iogo Imperial Majesty, Dean of Statsky Radnik Mykola Ivanovich Dokhturov. Yogo’s team was the niece of the hero of the Vitchiznyan war of 1812, the fate of General Dmitry Sergiyovich Dokhturov.

From the very beginning of this gleaming hat, which gave rise to representatives of two aristocratic names, waking up in the presence of rich grand ladies of that hour: Leonid Mikhailovich zoom to bring into his mouth the spirit of traditional Orthodox piety. The cobs themselves were used as the basis for the forging of four daughters - Viri, Natali, Leonid and Katerini.

Igumenya Seraphim (Chorna-Chichagova) († 1999), onuk of Metropolitan Seraphim (Chichagov)

Three daughters - Vira Natalia and Leonida will take blackness for a year. The granddaughter of Vladika Seraphim Igumen Seraphim († 1999, in the world - Varvara Vasilivna Chorna-Chichagova) became the first abbess of the revived Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. Zavdyaki її samoіddanim pratsyam zіbranі materials to the canonization of Metropolitan Seraphim and re-seeing mayzhe all yogo do.

Priesthood

Vіn talanovitiy, sensible, shvidko prosuvaetsya on service, but if you torment yoga, like life is given to you іrreal, second order from the true call of the people.

At St. Petersburg, 1878 God's Promisel grafted Leonid Mikhailovich to the banquet with the great pastor of the Russian Orthodox Church St. Righteous John of Kronstadt having become on all the coming fates a spiritual authority for the future saint, and from that hour on, having taken a lot of his most important life decisions of wines, having taken more than the blessing of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt.

L.M. Chichagov rozpochav i systematic theological occupations. So, the officer, who did not take off the seminary enlightenment, pretended to be an encyclopedic enlightened theologian. This theological authority has been recognized by the entire Russian Orthodox Church.

At 1890 p. because of the blessing of your confessor, you become a priest.

The present light did not enlighten and did not divide his aspirations. In the eyes of the people of the "light of the world" I moved from the aristocratic state to the spiritually unchallenged right. Priests in the 19th century did not descend from such “visots”, to which vines they hovered among the sspіlstvі, among the priests. It didn’t go well for you, then, so that by chance you could become an archpriest, but a priest (!) For yourself, may you be closed on yourself, not properly illuminated, rich and important working middle!? One can guess that in the Soviet times the Russian aristocracy, infected with the spirit of freemasonry and nihilism, respected the path of the priesthood with its own evil ways. At the priests, too, there were important rіznochintsі.

The team back to back bula categorically opposed. Relatives called out to think about it. Ale vin, to make your way easier, go to the military post at the rank of colonel of the guard, to confirm the rank of general at the northern parts of the country. The druzhina is enthralled that they should be able to save the family catastrophe. And only after a few years of thinking, like in John of Kronstadt, out, nareshti, will be subdued.

In 1891, after the birth of L.M. Chichagov's homeland moved to Moscow. BUT 1893 roku winetake the priesthood and becomes father Leonid.

Farewell to the dying spiritual father (1908), L.M. Chichagov having taken away the remains of the blessing of the righteous: "I can die in peace, knowing that you and His Eminence Hermogenes will continue my right, fight for Orthodoxy, for which I bless you." The Kronstadt priest gave his temple a share of his spiritual son.

Vіn serve at various parishes of Moscow and vіddaє all their strength to improve the temples, donating for their repair special koshti.

The experience of the first fate of the priestly service was made for Fr. Leonid by Natalia Mykolaivna's unbearable heavy ailment.In 1895, roci, 36 years old, she died, having lost two young daughters - Vira, Natalia, Leonida and Katerina, the eldest of them was 15, and the youngest - 9 years old. Father Leonid brought the body of the deceased squad to Divєєvo and buried it in the monastery's tsvintary. Nezabar, a chapel was erected over the grave, and Father Leonid entrusted the burial place of mother Natalia with the mass for the blessed burial, which, meanwhile, was not destined to receive the relics of the future holy martyr.

Narazі chapels no longer exist. Vaughn bula zruynovana, like and richly іnshoy. The ashes of Natalia Mykolaivna bv perepohovaniy on tsvintary. At the same time on the city of the tsvintar - a school with a sports maidan.

"Chronicles of the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery" and the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Chichagov deeply caressed the memory of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov. Once, when I first came to Diviev, I immediately felt the sight of the blessed Pasha Divievskaya, I knew Seraphim of Sarov well: “From good, scho ty come: I have been checking on you for a long time. The Monk Seraphim punished you to convey, so that you would add to the sovereign, that the hour has come for the resurrection of yoga relics and that glorification ”. On the occasion of Chichagov’s nutrition and the memory that it was impossible to “advance” the sovereign, she said: “I don’t know anything, I only pass on those who punished me, the Reverend.”

Vіn virіshuє write a book about the miracle worker of Sariv. I know I’m going to Divєєva, working in the archives, recording the confession of Pasha and other people, and in 1896 I’m going to go out earlier "Chronicles of the Seraphim-Divievskogo Monastery".

In the "Chronicles" all spiritually significant signs were increased in the monasteries of Sarov and Diviev during the period from 1705 to 1895. "Chronicles" for the first time made a report about the first abbess of the Divivsky monastery, mother Oleksandra (at the remembrance of Agafia Semenivna Malgunova), gave a report on the life of the blessed elder hieromonk Seraphim with quiet animal words to the skin. "Chronicles" also spoke about the closest associates of the great elder - M.V. Manturov, Archpriest Vasil Sadovsky, Blessed Pelageya Ivanivna Serebrennikova, Mikola Oleksandrovich Motovilov, who recorded a conversation with the elder Seraphim about the reception of the Holy Spirit workshop Christian life. Letters from the humble chants of the Sarov monastery about God, about serenity, about self-respect, about peace of mind, about peace, about tears, about heroic deeds, about feast, about richness, about forgiveness of the image of that other side of the life of the faithful.

Metropolitan Seraphim said: “If ... I reviewed the proofreading, it was late in the evening, raptly rattling my levoruch in front of the Monk Seraphim, who was sitting by the armchair. As if instinctively, I stretched myself up to the new one, crouching down to my chest, and my soul was filled with invisible bliss. When I raised my head, there was no one. Chi tse buv short-hour dream chi just appeared to me the Reverend, I don’t presume to judge, but I understand that the Reverend yakuvav me for vikonanny yoga mandate.

Apparently, the "Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diviev Monastery", written by Vladika Seraphim, played a vital role in the nutritional canonization of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov. Archimandrite Seraphim Zumiv handed over the Litopis to Emperor Nicholas II. Having read the її, the Sovereign came to the thought of the need for the glorification of St. Seraphim among the saints. However, officials-protestants and rich archivists at the Synod were rated just like St. Seraphim sharply negatively. If in the course of these people the book is consumed by the Tsar, the head of the Holy Synod, Kostyantyn the Pobedonostsev, write to your student about those who "Shakhtar Chichagov made his way to the Sovereign and spoke about the whip"(St. Seraphim).

Prote Bagatoria blockade was lifted for the name of Seraphim of Sarov. In 1903, the canonization and glorification of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov was made in 1903 for the storage of Chichagov's statements and the zavdyaks of the pіdtrimtsі of Emperor Mikoli II.

Monasticism

The spring of 1898 became the hour for Father Leonid to make a final decision about his future share. Having abandoned his four daughters under the guardianship of many trusted parents, Father Leonid April 30 1898 roku otrimav vіdstavka vіd Vіysk presbyter and maritime clergy і14 sickle 1898 accept blackness . Yogo to be tonsured at the mantle at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra z im'yam Seraphim - in honor of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov.

For 40 years of his service, Vladik Seraphim was honored by the wealthy places of Russia: at Moscow, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Suzdal, New Jerusalem, Sukhumi, Orly, Chisinau, Tver, Leningrad. Vladik Seraphim took care of the restoration of the construction of temples and monasteries, the restoration of the spiritual life of the people; vin fearlessly taking part in the fight against revolutionary turmoil, sectarianism and divisions of every kind - for the purity of Orthodoxy, actively engaging in the organization of church-paraffial life.

In sickle 1899 Hieromonk Seraphim Bov stars at the rank of archimandriteі appointments as rector of the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiev monasteryі Deans of the Usikh Monastir of the Volodymyr Eparchy. The monastery has not been repaired for about 100 years and required a major overhaul. At the price of majestic zusils and more importantly on the money of money (through the lack of chosen donations), Archimandrite Seraphim zoumiv transform like a master, so the spiritual life of the monastery.

Chapter 14 1904 roku vin boov appointments as rector of the Resurrection Novo-Yerusalim Monastery. At this monastery, vin pratsyuvav only one river. And here yogo diyalnist lost a good track. Archimandrite Seraphim depicting his abbess with the restoration of the famous Resurrection Cathedral.

By the providence of God, Father Seraphim was prepared for a new church service. April 28 1905 roku in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin consecration of the Bishop of Sukhumi . The rite of consecration was robbed by: Metropolitan Volodymyr (Bogoyavlensky) of Moscow, Bishop Trifon (Turkestanov) and Seraphim (Golubyatnikov). From this hour until the end of this day, the hieromartyr's service appeared for St. Seraphim inextricably tied up from the men's stations for the purity of the Orthodox faith and the unity of the Russian Church, like Hieromartyr Seraphim, being the prodovzhuvachem viyskovoy glory of their valiant ancestors, having already risen like a warrior of Christ on the field of spiritual huskies.

The saint alternately went straight to the Orlovskaya (1906), Chisinivskaya (1908) and Tverska (1912) cathedras. at the sleigh of the archbishop . Everywhere vin manifested himself as a zealous organizer of the life of parish communities.

Descho later Vladik Seraphim to rob, perhaps, the greatest pardon in his life. Forgetting about those, as if Yogo himself was driven by spikes, vins, messages for investigating scarga on the Optina elders, to rob the vchinok, which is important to explain. Vyganyaє from the monastery of the holy elder Barsanuphius , to bring “order” to the monastery more for every ruin.

Prote for the rose of the priest Vasil Shustin, the spiritual son of Fr. Barsonophia, on the right bula іnaksha... There were people who were the wisdom of Fr. Barsonophia did not give life, and the enemy did not sleep. Having settled at the skete, Mitya Kosnomovny from the town of Kozelsk. Buv wine p'yanitsya and taєmno rozbeschuvav chentsіv. Batiushka did not have a lot of patience and hung yoga from the skete. At the same time, a whole legion turned against the priests ... One of the women of the St. Petersburg religious and political group of Countess Ignat'eva came to Optina and took all the calls against the priests, as if only one could be vigilant. Bishop Seraphim (Chichagov), who had come to Optina, having given the priest a shower, and on the right, yogo vіdguku from Optіnoї, she was already blessed here. Batko Varsonofy Mav leave the skete...

Music and painting

Metropolitan Seraphim rejoiced at his extraordinary giftedness.

Vіn buv miraculous musician: good spіvav i engraving, laying down church music. In 1999, in the archives, yoga instrumental works for organ-harmony and pianoforte were found "Leaves from the Musical Book" ). With the harmonium of the wines, I never parted. Having attached great respect to church hymns: without serving de b vin, zavzhdy picked up sings for the choir, conducting sings.

Metropolitan Seraphim was also a talented artist, who practiced easel painting at the gallery. In Moscow, near the churches in the name of St. Mykoli the Wonderworker near Old Vagankovo ​​and in the name of the Prophet Іlli in Obidinsky Provulk, as well as near St. Petersburg near the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, icons and wall paintings of yoga robots were saved. The stench is against a high professional master. At the Moscow Church of the Prophet III, which is in Obidensky Provulk, you can scribble at the entrance to the temple a miraculous image of the Savior written by him for the last time at the white chiton, that image of St.

The image of the Savior is grown up in a white tunic, written by Metropolitan Seraphim (Chichagovim)

Revolution of 1917

The preaching activity of St. Seraphim, like, vtim, and yogo archpastoral service, was done like for obshtuvannya church life, and th at the bottom of quiet ruinous spiritual and hromadsky peace, like the Russian victorious work on the cob of the XX century. Painfully worried about everything, seeing through the eyes of the lighted part of the Russian society in the form of traditional, based on orthodox vіrі spiritual and historical cobs of Russian life, St. Seraphim victoriously victorious in his sermons the spiritual blindness of the quiet, who entrusted himself with the right to act as new "leaders" and "prophets" for the Russian people, becoming a stranger to them.

The lute revolution Bishop Seraphim, at that time Vladik of the Tver eparchy, was sharply negative. Riot is rebellion, and an oath is an oath. For the new, Russian soldier, there was no food here.

If in the birch days of 1917 the fate of the Sovereign’s decree put the order of the Monarchy itself far away, and the Holy Synod, having taken into account the necessary support of Timoshov’s order, St. Batkivshchyna.

On the occasion of the year 1917, when the schismatics took over from their sees near Tver, St. Seraphim was appointed by the Holy Patriarch Tikhon to the Varshavsky cathedra, to enter into the administration of those who did not die through the Ukrainian cities of Poland.

Areshti

Evidently, the floorings of yaskravs, the talent of the archpriests, having won the power of that politician, znischennya religii. In 1921 roci, being at that hour already at the Metropolitan’s sanatorium, Vladik Seraphim rested arrested and sentenced to be sent to the Arkhangelsk contract for a line of 2 years.

After his return, Vlad Seraphim in 1924 I re-arrested and settled down in Butirsk vyaznitsa: in 1903 St. Seraphim of Sarov was glorified near the province. After a few months, Vladik Seraphim had to leave Moscow for the fussing of Patriarch Tikhon, however, for the abuse of power, he had to leave Moscow.

At this hour, the saint had a chance to experience a new trial, which this time fell on the new one not from the side of the persecutors of the Church, but from the side of the abbess of the dear yoga heart of the Divіїvsky monastery of Oleksandriya (Trokіvskoy), I believe that the holy hierarch 20 was honored by him. In addition, as the vladika was driven out of Moscow by the authorities, he turned to abbess Oleksandri to give him an alcove at the Serafimo-Divievskiy monastery, and the abbess guided the wicked companion.

Departure of Vladik Seraphim together with his daughter Natalia (near Seraphim’s blackness) was adopted by Abbess Arsenius (Dobronravova) at the Resurrection Monastery of Feodorovsky, who was known to be of Shuya (Volodimir region). Having lived in this monastery for two years.

Remain the fates of life

In 1928 roci Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) to Moscow appointments to keruyuchim Leningrad eparchy , de panuvav at that hour the spirit of confusing that church podіlu, scho having sifted through the significant number of Leningrad parishes. Razkol buv into the hands of the bіshovitskiy vladі. Tim is no less, in the minds of the zhorstok and universal attacks on church life by the sovereign power of Vladik Seraphim, as the basis of his archpastoral service, laying the reverent initiation of weekly and holy services and the natchnennu sermon at the Moscow and primorial churches. "As long as the Divine Liturgy is being celebrated, while people are approaching Divine Communion, we can be sung that the Orthodox Church can stand and overcome, that the evil sin, godlessness, anger, materialism, pride and impurity of the Russian people are likely to be born", - Metropolitan Seraphim changed his mind.

I especially emphasize the importance of the wines at the saving rituals, as the stench of the commandments of the church tradition and the holy fathers. Vladik not recognizing the wild speech and fighting with her . Priest Valentin Svєntsіtsky wrote about Vladyka, who had his own dopovіdі against svіlnoї svіdі, among others, saying: "An ancient holy sermon did not begin in olden times, nor in a year, and nowhere about it can one think of the current history of the Orthodox Church ... The establishment of a sacred sermon is a clear replacement of the New Testament Mystery by the Old Testament rite."

On December 28, 1929, Solovetsky Vyazen, one of the most prominent church hierarchies of the 20th century, died of typhus near the Leningrad prison hospital - Archbishop of Vereisky Ilarion (Troytsky) , Vіkarіi Muscovko єParchії himself Powered by Gіrkota Zad'iolkіv І Ізланная, Metropolitan Seraphim, Riczicchi Bridzveti on himself VIV VLAD, DOMIKSHI HAPPY CHRISTIANS FOR CHRISTSIENTIATIH ZVICHAєM, GIDUAL SENUAL SANU, SERVICE OPISHOP ІLARІON (TROYCHKY), ZHIKOVY їSHI. The body of yoga was seen by relatives at the roughly beaten thorns. If the trouble was broken, without recognizing Vladik, who looked like a 70-year-old old man, so they changed his evocative attitude to that sickness. Vladika Seraphim brought his white dress and white miter. After the election, the body of the archbishop was laid in another line. Metropolitan Seraphim himself repaired the services of the six archbishops and the impersonal clergy.

Metropolitan of Leningrad, Vlad Seraphim, having served 5 years.The lords' physical inability and all the hatred before the new sovereign power in Leningrad robbed even the immovable Swedish arrest of St. Seraphim. This prompted Metropolitan Sergiy (Stragorodsky) and the Timchas Patriarchal Holy Synod on July 14, 1933 to see a decree about the call of Vladika Seraphim to calm.Having served 24 days at the temple of his youth - the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Savior - the Divine Liturgy, having handed over his flock to Metropolitan Oleksiy (Simansky), the Patriarch of All Russia, St. Seraphim forever left his native place.

The promise of God gave St. Seraphim another shard of fate, so that he could prepare himself for the rest of his service - a martyr's feat for faith in Christ. Vіn know yourself the remaining porch at two kіmnatah zamіskoї dacha, which was near the Moscow station of Pitoma Kazanskaya Zaliznitsa.

Vladyka's bedroom was built in one room, with a great number of books, icons and robotics writing desk. Another room was built under the distant-vital. Here stood an obidnіy stіl, a harmonium and a sofa; on the wall hangs a great image of the Savior by the white chiton, written by Vladikoy. Behind him were two nuns of the Resurrection Monastery of Feodorovsky, Vira and Sebastian, who accompanied Vlad with the blessing of their abbess Arsenia for over 7 years. The day before New, spiritual children came, others came from St. Petersburg; Vladik Metropolitan Aleksiy (Simansky) and Arseniy (Stadnitsky) were invited to come to the meeting of the Synod. In the evenings, when everyone was gone, the Metropolitan sat at the harmonium and for a long time he wrote spiritual music himself.

Master the harmonium, perhaps, and carry it, but the tsarist colonel and the church obscurantist Seraphim Chichagov continue to be left in the center of church life, high and low, led the NKVS out of himself.

Rozstrіl

Aresht born in 1937 appearing for Vladika Seraphim to stop. Virok "threes" bv formal. The unfortunately ailing 80-year-old old man was called in the “inspired counter-revolutionary zmovi”.

Illiterately, rudely, ludicrously folded this virok on a papper's paper at a dead hour. Vіn exhibitions in the exposition of the museum near Butovoi. Through the ailment, Yogo could not be taken away on the "black crow", it was possible to call the carriage of a shvidka for help. Everything was confiscated, it was not deprived of any listing, no books, no musical creations, no icons, no swearing. The remains were irrevocably spent, a part of the “Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diviev Monastery” was unseen.

Following the Metropolitan's own confessions, Father John of Kronstadt gave him the day of his death. Vіn repeatedly repeating: "Remember the day of the Three Saints". Vladik was getting ready for the day before his death. Daughters always wanted to recognize the right day of death. І axis yogo daughter Natalia (black Seraphim) had a dream: nazustrіch їy yde syayuschy father and kazhe їy: "Well, well, it's the day of the Three Saints."

As can be seen from the materials of Vladyka’s drinking, as if he were in the “one-volume book” of reference No. 7154, without recognizing wines for himself, without regard for the beasts of katuvannya, which Vladyk recognized from the Vladyka.

Vladika Seraphim (Chichagov), prison photo, 1937

The rest of the photograph of Vladyka Seraphim was saved, slain in prison: the person of the martyr was laid bare, but in this person there is such unshakable strength of spirit that it is impossible to take a look. It is a note that Vladitsa Seraphim was promised to save her life, as it is publicly spoken of by the faithful of the Orthodox Church. Ale vin didn’t say.

December 11, 1937 Vіn buv shooting at Butovoi , on the so-called training ground of the NKVS Until the mass of the strata, tormented by torturs, ale unbroken in spirit, kati was brought on burdens ... The body was thrown into a mass grave. There, among the Russian bones of relics, yoga now does not know. Youmu buv 81 rik.

Ponad 50 years, 10 leaf fall 1988 the fate of Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov will be rehabilitated.

Zarahuvannya to the face of saints

U 1997 roci Russian Bishops' Cathedral Orthodox Church to the face of the saints like a new martyr .

On 29 spring 2011, at the Third All-Russian Star of Orthodox Doctors named after Seraphim (Chichagov) near Tver, it was included in the Golden Book of St. Petersburg. If we don’t want to say, that in its hour of the 10th, the active medical activity of L. Chichagov was accompanied by baked criticism, slander and re-examination.

Troparion, tone 5:
Having fallen in love with the army of the King of Heaven more than the earthly one, the servant of the half moons of the Holy Trinity appeared. Place a pastor of Kronstadt in your hearts, giving you the sight of God to the various gifts of God to the disgrace of the people of God, multiplying Ty. A teacher of piety and a champion of the unity of the Church, having been honored to suffer to the point of bloodshed. Hieromartyr Seraphim, pray to Christ God that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 6:
To the Sarov miracle worker, to name the buv, the warmth of love until the new mother, with your writings, deeds and miracles of that world announcing, virnі to the yogo glorification, having sprung up and honoring the Reverend himself, you were honored. Behind him, Hieromartyr Seraphim, settling in heavenly devils, pray to Christ God Seraphim joys as a partaker for us.

Material prepared by Sergiy SHULYAK

for the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Sparrow Hills