Biography A Gorsky

Education II. Student years III. Years of professorship. Spiritual personality IV. The impact of time V. Scientific works VI. Scientific leadership VII. The years of the rectorship, this ascet-professional, this monk-Miryan, with an ascetic life, combining sociable humanity and willingness to everyone to serve his knowledge and labors, it was an extraordinary phenomenon.

It is hardly repeated. It was the creation of a special spiritual system in the well-known period of the Moscow Academy of Gilyar-Platons in the summer of the year Bakalavr of the Moscow Theological Academy Hieromonk Afanasy, sent by an auditor to the Kostroma seminary, chosen Alexander Gorsky for the Academy of a brisk six-year-old philosopher. Five years later, in August, 42 passed and our academy lost its rector, a scientist, known in Russia and abroad, Archpriest Gorsky.

This happened 25 years ago on October 11. The Moscow Theological Academy, which took Gorsky from his years of adolescence, only let him go to a close seminary for one year, mourned the death, buried his remains near his walls and “his coffin with us” he belongs to the academy, this worthy of its sons, the glory of Russian science, the decoration of the native church.

The day of the flight from the day of his death is our academic great holiday, and at the same time the holiday of Russian spiritual education. Asking to the condescension and patience of the enlightened meeting, I will try to tell the life of Alexander Vasilyevich, as its dead paper and our living academic legend portray it 1. Gorsky was born in Kostroma in the year on August 16.

The Gorsky family was prominent in the city. Father - Vasily Sergeyevich, was educated at the Trinity Lavra Seminary and was first a professor of his Kostroma seminary, then moved to the cathedral to the priests. Leaving the position of teacher, he became the caretaker of the theological school, and having received the rank of Archpriest of the Cathedral of the Cathedral, leaves the viewing, limiting the lessons in noble families.

The letters of Vasily Sergeyevich are forced to see in him an intelligent person in his time, a former professor of Russian literature and eloquence, not without a poetic feeling, wisely strongly by nature, with a sanity, not damaged by science, with certain moral foundations 2. One feature was especially distinguished by Vasily Sergeyevich-extraordinary kindness, who inherited by A.

his mother Olga Kuzminishna, the daughter of the Kostroma protopop, a smart woman, was brought up at home, in the old way. She possessed the character is firm and apparently the rule of the house as a chapter. The circle of the concepts that are needed for the order of life was the same for both parents of Gorsky. Both of them were religious people, patriarchal, imbued with the unconditional obedience of the church charter and the centuries of Russian life created by the Church.

The indicated features are mutually complementing the difference in characters and the complete similarity of life concepts by the parents of A. B-cha reported the world and the way to their relations, the extraordinary stability of the life of the family, and finally reported the strict certainty that the future scientist received. By nature, A. He understood everything surrounding and developed earlier than he should.

Premature development is usually caused by some abnormality in education and it took place here. Maybe there will be too much to say that the pedagogical concepts of Gorsky’s parents coincided with the house -building, but, in any case, they strongly responded from them by the house building. But the pedagogy of Ancient Rus' is designed for gross nature, rebellious or evil will: it recommends a thunderstorm and vine, but not affection, completely forbids parents jokes and games with their children, limits the manifestations of cordiality.

This obsolete system was completely unsuitable for the soft, gifted with extraordinary treasures of the heart, the nature of A. Meanwhile, its parents, these good people, were harsh educators. Wanting to develop in children a sense of the strictest scene, they acted with fear and pain of punishment. The educators forgot about the heart of the child: they did not try to establish his morality on his own feelings and did not work out for this to reveal in his heart God and his holy religion.

All the moral and religious content of the soul was not grown in it, but was engaged from the side, instructed by the Council. In this discrepancy between nature and the upbringing of Gorsky, it seems to us, the reason for its premature development. Meanwhile, they especially took care of the upbringing of A., since he was a senior, a child. He was removed from his peers - huts, they were constantly kept at home only with adults, they did not bring to any society.

The Gorsky family itself was not great: A. B-cha was only the sister of Julia and one brother Vladimir, the youngest in the family, who died the Chinese missionary of the 3rd. The years of Gorsky’s childhood flowed quietly, modestly, and dead. A lively and impressionable child was not naughty and never frolic: then the subtleties were not available at that time as the difference between pranks and renowned - it forbade both.A modest and prudent boy, a favorite of his parents, came out of him.

In the harsh school of home education, the cordiality and softness of the child were found only in poorly and in boring all -angle to its educators. About eight, he entered school, began to go to the spiritual school, continuing to live at home. The incense son of the Cathedral Archpriest met a lot of huts at school, he began to naughty himself, but always moderately, without leaving the borders.

Twelve years A. his position of the house did not change at all; In the class, they approved him for modesty and obedience. Here, for the first time, a lack of education was discovered A. He was experiencing age when a young soul needed friendship. But he was dead, as he himself confesses, at a time when the heart begins to look for another heart; He had many loving and beloved comrades, but not a single friend 4.

The heavy shackles of harsh education squeezed his heart; The years of childhood, spent without friends, alone with their dreams and thoughts, developing an early childhood fantasy and thought, did not accustom him to frankness and immediacy in relations, which friendship eats. He remained a monastery and at school. For the rest of his life, in Gorsky’s soul, his home education left his traces.

Religiosity and churchness, good instructions and rules, as the foundations of the life of a good spiritual family, instilled firmly to the soul of A. B-cha, remained unchanged companions for until the end of the days. But from home education, he made a isolation, some fear of getting closer to people, the line of character, which completely, did not harmonize with its cordiality, with childish simplicity in everyday affairs, with amazing gullibility to people.

Education did not develop the firmness of the character A. He was positively afraid to make a choice in decisive moments of life 5. Then he was not controlled by his own, although not a stranger, will. If in other cases he insisted on his own, then only by the power of passive opposition. Parents who lived for a long time in G.'s letters for a long time from his father’s letters with tender or business posts of his mother, with the rough poems of the younger brother, were very important in his life, it can be seen that A.

happened that the parental power was faced with the independent aspirations of her son and the mother’s tears stopped his decision. In an unrelated opening of A. Diary, but do I force my mother to shed tears and lament about me? Lord, allow this knot. The natural and the natural law tells us to give love to everyone! But do I insult their ardor with me with a deaf heart? Do I introduce them into hostile locations, do I give them a reason for various griefs?

It was me, according to his admission, it was born in him in the summer of childhood from education. Here he means a lack of courage, the habit of non -resistance to evil, the softness of character, bordering on weakness, his inability to become a hero of the confessor. He was alien to the sagging of the power, but out of childhood he made the habit of unquestioning obedience to the authorities, which he turned in the principle in the years of conscious life.

Then we will see that Gorsky with his upbringing was the best suited for the time when he served his service, for the time of Emperor Nikolai, Count Protasov and Metropolitan Filaret. The formation of a future scientist began in the family. It was conducted in the old way. Many were forced to teach as a keepsake, without being able to do whether the memorized is understood.

Amateur performances in it were not developed and burdened by the sciences of memory. A. himself found the philological talents early in Gorsky: when learning languages, he did not like mechanical jeeling of words, but more engaged in their production. The old spiritual school, too difficult for a mediocre student and therefore glorious with her Kamchatka, did not fade away, but brought up great talents.

But for A. B-h, at school, there was another favorable circumstance. His father, a previously previously teacher of the seminary, was very concerned about the teaching of his son and probably was not alien to the parental vanity to see him among the first students. He carefully monitors the teachings of A. B-cha, helps him in the classroom, not asking himself and without touching him, corrects the tasks, which was unpleasant and insulting to the student himself.

Alexander Gorsky was written between the first in the list and he was the most developed student of his time in the Kostroma seminary. This explains the earlier incidence of A. B-h to our academy. In the April meeting of G., in four seminaries, among other things and in the Kostroma choice, he was entrusted to the auditors sent by the Academy itself. The Bachelor of the Academy at the Hermeneutics Department Hieromonk Afanasy Drozdov went to Kostroma.

Gorsky, who was then in the philosophical department, was recognized as the most capable student and, bypassing theological classes, was directly sent to the Academy alone instead of three.