Restore the biography

What, what witnesses we were! Playing the mysterious game, and the kings rose and fell; And the blood of people of glory, then freedom, then the pride of Bagril Altari Alexander Pushkin, on October 19, the leading researcher at the Lyceum Memorial Museum in Tsarskoye Selo Svetlana Vasilievna Pavlova spoke in our section about the fate of the lyceum students of the last issue that took place in the year.

For many years, Svetlana Vasilievna devoted many years to the search for documents and memories of the lyceum students of the last, go, but information about some pupils of the Pushkin Lyceum remained extremely stingy and fragmentary. And how to clarify the fate of people who lost Russian Troubles in the chaos a hundred years ago? It’s the same as looking for traces in the snow after a snowstorm.

But thanks to our readers, a miracle occurred: we received three letters that make clarity in the biography of three graduates of the Lyceum of the year: Sergey Military, Mikhail Saranchov and Mikhail Krasovsky. Today we publish the first of these letters - about the short life of Sergei Military, who was born in the family of the chamberlain of the royal court and the daughter of the French consul.

But in reality, he did not go into emigration, but ended up in the Russian North, where he chose the service to the king of heaven. I remember how in my youth, reading books about the Civil War, I admired its peers, who, like Arkady Gaidar, were commanded at the age of 17. There were many such young commanders with the Belyaks. Somehow it was not thought that there could be the third path, no less dangerous and sacrificial - peaceful standing for the truth.

He was chosen by few, but he turned out to be the closest to the truth of God. We will definitely talk about these few - about young men who made their difficult choice years ago. Of the letters about the latest lyceum students, "the spiritual man burns with sacred fire read your article about the lyceum students of the release of the year and I want to tell about one of them.

Sergey Voensky was born in the year in St. Petersburg. He and his mother Olga Romanovna were in our city, accidentally - from the hungry Petrograd went to relatives in Saratov. It was a year. Adamovich military is also a graduate of the Alexander Lyceum, the chamberlain of the tsarist court, the historian and archaeologist, by that time was already in exile - he served as a librarian in Malta.

On the way to the Volga, Olga Romanovna fell ill, and her mother and her son had to go out at the Shane station. There they met people who advised me to wait out the Time of Troubles in the county town of Nikolsk. Olga Romanovna began to teach foreign languages ​​in Nikolsk. In the year, Sergey went to Moscow and met with Patriarch Tikhon. Obviously, then the young teacher and the recent lyceum student was ordained a holy dignity.

Sergey was only 23 years old. The young priest was ranked to the Sretensky Cathedral of Nikolsk, also served in the Kazan Temple, which was considered attributed to the cathedral. The religious life in the Nikolsky district after the revolution was on the rise. Two friends of Father Sergius also accepted the Holy San: the teacher, son of the officer Anatoly Shipunov-Knyazhev and Mikhail Shilov, a former mechanic of the trading fleet.

Peasants, clergy, and intelligentsia came to Father Sergius of Military. He strengthened everyone and warned from rapprochement with Bogoborian power. Unfortunately, Father Sergius fell ill with tuberculosis. The letter of the summer pastor to his parishioners has been preserved, which largely explains what meaning he saw in his illness and close death. Here is an excerpt from this letter: “I must explain the opinion that I depleted myself this opinion arose in some kind people from sympathy for me and my health desires, my weakness and soreness are explained by some events of my past life, as well as enhanced spiritual classes that I have since the adoption of the priesthood.

If you knew, in what murderous conditions I had to go, for example, in some travels, then we would be surprised as such flashed, like such flashed.

And the crushed organism, as I, remained alive after that, which I suffered from early childhood, also serve as a natural cause of my pain and finally, the sacred pastoral ministry has the hard burden of many people, which also enhances the body's life burning, in addition to external natural burning, the person who is spiritualized and the internal combustion of the celestial. Fire that the Lord himself is ongoing.

And this combustion cleanses and enlightens the light of Christ and the bearer of this fire and the world around him before his death, he accepted the monastic tonsure with the name Seraphim. His funeral took place with a huge gathering of the people. The grave has become a place of pilgrimage. Father Sergius was revered as a saint during his lifetime, he turned to him for prayer help, for healing.

Six years later, in the year, the authorities considered Sergei Konstantinovich military all the people close to the priest were arrested. Galina Ryzhkova, teacher of the Sunday school of the Kazan Church. Write to Dmitry Shevarov: Dmitri.