Elder Nikolai Guryanov Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Nikolai Guryanov Nikolay Alekseevich Guryanov -, Archpriest was born on May 24 in the village of Chudsk Vyzhodyers of the Gdovsky district of the St. Petersburg province in a pious merchant family. Subsequently, she became the closest assistant to the son of Nikolai. From childhood, he served in the temple of Arch.

Michael in with. Kobylier Gorodishche of the Gdovsky district, traveled with pilgrims in holy places. Love for the temple and church singing was inherent in all family members. The elder brother of Nikolai, Mikhail, became a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The younger brothers, Peter and Anatoly, also possessed musical abilities, but there was little news of them.

All three brothers died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Even at the old age, he visited about. Talabsk, where he later worked. Around the city on the island of Talabsk, they stuck to rest. Here they visited the blessed Mikhail, the Office. Blessed Mikhail gave the priest a little prosphora, and to Nikolai the big one and said: "Our guest arrived at the end of the Gatchina Pedagogical College Nikolai entered the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute.

In the year, student Nikolai spoke out at a student meeting against the closure of one of the Leningrad temples, after which he was expelled from the institute. He taught mathematics, physics and biology at a school in the city of Tosno, Leningrad Region. Then he served as a psalmist in the temple in the name of St. Nikolai s. Belt of Seredkinsky district of the Leningrad region Donations began to enter the local authorities: “The act of the Act of the village of Sidorovich brings to your knowledge that in the village of Sidorovichi there are non -dosage unwanted elements and are engaged in agitation against the Soviet government that collectivizations and the Kurkuli kulaki Eki Liquidini and decompose work.” In the month of July, Sidorovichi, he took the position of a clerk, got a job in an apartment at the chairman of the church community Komarenko.

Using the fact that young people went to adult children Komarenko, he began to learn religious songs with them [meaning church chants], sang them with them. Recruited the youth to the church choir, and also advised them to go to church in the column of the questionnaire of the arrested "property status" that "has no property." Medical conclusion on the state of health: "suffers from rheumatism of the joints." It was a group.

They passed along it, except about about. They began to dissolve rumors that there would be a war soon, because they would press the groups, and in Belarus - for the construction of railways, and also persuaded neighbors with which they were friends so that they would not go to collective farms, since the collective farms would be bad on the eve of the village council of the village council arranged a booze not satisfied with the Soviet regime, and after the party, they diverged to break off the prefabricated collections, and holding it.

The emphasis on not letting the Communists into the village council, given the fact that the Communist was sent to the post of chairman of the village council in Sidorovich. This group waged a job so that voters did not vote for the Communist under the pretext that “he is alien, we don’t know him,” besides “we have our own people”, as a result of which the election meeting was not guilty of himself: “I never did a counter -revolutionary work and did not campaign against the Soviet regime.

I have nothing more to say. He served the deadline in Syktyvkar. Was on the construction of the railway. Work often took place in ice water. He received rheumatism, and also heavily damaged his legs with sleepers. He was released approximately in the city of he did not have the right to live in Leningrad and was sent for a km. He worked as a teacher in the schools of the Tosnensky district.

When the Great Patriotic War began, he was not taken to the front due to illness of the legs, which he received in the camp. During the German occupation, he was forcibly taken to the Baltic states. Nikolai Guryanov on February 8 by Sergius of Voskresensky and February 15 - to the priest. According to PSTGU, even before the ordination he took monastic tonsure, but did not become a mantle monk and kept his monasticism in secret.

In the same year he graduated from theological courses in Vilnius and was sent by a priest at the female Riga Trinity-Sergius Monastery. Then the monastery was transferred to the male Vilensky Holy Figor, where the obedience of the Charter was obedient. Since July, the Gregobs of the Panevezhsky deanery of the Vilnius-Lithuanian diocese. In - gg. In the city, at a personal request, he was appointed rector of the temple in the name of St.

Nicholas on the island of Talabsk is flooded on Pskov Lake, where almost half a century of his pastoral ministry passed. He led an ascetic life, became famous as a spiritual, perspicacious old man. In the beginning of the X to about. Nicholas for advice and prayer help began to turn many people, his spiritual children were among priests, monks and laity. He tried to say an encouraging word that came to him, strengthened and instructed in faith, called with love to treat everything that surrounds people.I read a lot, directing others to thoughtful, smart reading, blessed to study, obtaining education, loved spiritual singing, the author of such chants as the “praise of the Mother of God”, “Prayer to the Guardian Angel”, “Savior, Granda my soul”, “Brotherly anthem”.

Nicholas one of the pillars of Russian old age. He died on August 24 in his house on the island of Talabsk he was flooded on Pskovsky Lake in the Pskov region. The island of Talabsk with the grave of the elder is still attracting numerous pilgrims. Video dock. Nikolai Guryanov. Information about the bishopric about. Nicholas, given in the credits, are not confirmed.

The film is valuable with documentary personnel captured by Fr. Mitra’s awards and the right to serve with open royal gates to the Cherubic song The right to serve with open royal gates to “our father” Word of life: in spirits. Palagin L. Memory of Prot. Yes, love each other: meetings with the elder Nikolai. Beograd,; Pskov Synodik. Used materials.